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

For ten moist, murmurous Indian nights a British captain sat behind a bush with an elephant gun on his knees, waiting for Satan.

From Time Magazine Archive

They arrived at twilight and as we strolled out among the sparkling hundreds Daisy's voice was playing murmurous tricks in her throat.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald