bruit
Example Sentences
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Exceptions: Your doctor hears a swishing sound, called a bruit, with a stethoscope, or you have had a stroke or mini-stroke.
From Washington Post • Dec. 8, 2009
And in the bruit of a large city, if one voice cries out above the turmoil, will not a babel of shouts rise from competitors ?
From Time Magazine Archive
Adding to the bruit of Clemens' "discov ery" was the inclusion in the Carnegie International last fortnight of his largest group painting, Water Music, which is an inept substitute for a snapshot.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thou, too, if the bruit of thy followers do thee no injustice, thou, too, hast been overcome by one of these.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 5 November 1848 by Various
"L'Op�ra toujours Fait bruit et merveilles: On y voit les sourds Boucher leurs oreilles."
From Physiology of The Opera by Swaby, John H.
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