Example sentences for: murmured

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

  • The poetry that he imagines being murmured on the dump--"aptest eve," "invisible priest," "stanza my stone"--is not in itself distinguished; by intention, it's a bit ridiculous.

  • This brooding hunk of manly sinew seized Hillary's heaving shoulders at a mixer for Capitol Hill interns during the summer of 1968 and murmured ...

  • But when we arrived at our destination and were safely on the sidewalk, my friend murmured, Excuse me, but isn't the proper expression slow down?

  • But sainthood, I learned soon enough, is a fateWorse than life, nights on call for the demonsIn a vomiting lamb, a dry breast, a broken radio,And days spent parroting the timeless adages,Spent arbitrating water rights, property lines,Or feuds between rival herdsmen over scrub brush,Spent blessing every bride and anyone's big-belliedFourth or fifth wife, praying that they deliver sons.I thought back to the time, not ten feet from him,I heard a homily delivered by old John XXIII,Sounding wholly seraphic in his murmured Italian.

  • Yet not a single word has been murmured on his behalf.


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