murmurous

Example Sentences

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I can hear the murmurous, gently swelling music of Rotview Balcony, a place of crimson skies and arid landscape, playing from the other room where the game is idling as I type this sentence.

From Washington Post • Mar. 4, 2022

“What’s Wrong”: Late-night bits-and-pieces jazz-clatter, murmurous moody vocals.

From Slate • Sep. 21, 2012

He wrote: “This is another world — terrifying to the outsider, yet imposing in its strangeness — behind those massive walls, in this murmurous darkness, within the temporary but real power of desperate men.”

From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2011

Great virtuosi, who know how to mingle murmurous, tinkling and strident sounds, might be said to possess the "Great Ear."

From Time Magazine Archive

The afternoon air was warm and still, and the shade of the tree was drowsy and murmurous with crickets.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman