Example sentences for: murmur

How can you use “murmur” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Similarly, fine-feeling English-speaking visitors to the Locarno region will freeze with horror when they see the initials of the Ferrovie Autolinee Regionali Ticinesi--the Ticinese Regional Railways and Bus Services--brazenly displayed on the local buses, and I once heard an Australian murmur that he had never seen anything quite as big and blue as that in his own country.

  • Is it to sit among mattresses of the dead,Bottles, pots, shoes and grass and murmur aptest eve ;Is it to hear the blatter of grackles and say Invisible priest ; is it to eject, to pullThe day to pieces and cry stanza my stone?

  • murmur, murmur, murmur, murmur"--we wake up, recognizing the sound of our own inner babble.

  • The problem is that the words selected— summer afternoon (Henry James), powwow, pulchritude, punctuate (Shirley Lord), Preposterous (Charles Krauthammer), delegate (Maxwell M. Raab)--often appeal because of personal association and not for euphony (unlike classics like murmur and smooth ).

  • Kirkcudbright (`Church of Cuthbert'), the name of a small former Scottish county and its main town, is pronounced “kir-KOO-bree”—which Brown reports is said by the natives with a “dove-like murmur.”


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