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Example sentences for: murmured
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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?
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 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.
"It's hard," I murmured.
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.