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rustling

adjective as in murmuring

Weak match

adjective as in noisy like silk

Weak match

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They lined the path as it curved to the right, swaying and rustling in the breeze, like an overeager welcoming committee.

Cousins makes many astute points about Hitchcock’s process, such as his use of a ramp in “Notorious” to allow Claude Rains to appear the same height as costar Ingrid Bergman in a scene, or how in “Saboteur,” viewers can’t hear the wind rustling the hair of a character dangling from the Statue of Liberty — but one can hear the character’s breathing.

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They turn this way and that through the rustling 10-foot stalks, laughing when they get lost, and pausing for chats, snacks and selfies atop the four elevated bridges that connect different parts of the maze.

When he suddenly encountered the peasant insurgents he had been seeking, he wrote, “The rustling of the trees became a rustling apart from the trees.”

I especially like listening to her rustling in the wind.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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