murmur
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There was something calming and oceanic about the rhythm of rolls and cracks around her, blending with the ambient murmur of banter and gossip into white noise.
From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026
“It never dawned on me that four years later I’d be like, the murmur is bigger than it ever was,” Glannan said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
The murmur, though, appeared to come after the ball had passed Smith's bat.
From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2025
He speaks with the same measured warmth as ever — that deep, lilting rumble that can shift from conspiratorial murmur to amused growl in a heartbeat — but he sometimes loses a name mid-thought.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2025
Where before there was a low murmur of noise throughout the square, now everything was deadly quiet.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
“So good,” Chip murmurs, his eyes rolling back.
From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026
Each new alarm like this elicits anxieties and murmurs that souring private credit is about to become the new subprime mortgage crisis.
From Barron's ● May 30, 2026
Concerns about the relative impact of boxers and briefs on fertility, for instance, have given way to today’s murmurs about plastic, testosterone and population rates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
"I know there's lots of murmurs, I've heard wonderful things," she says.
From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2025
G’ma murmurs something incoherent, and then Scoob hears a mechanical creak as she shifts in her bed.
From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone
Her mother murmured advice: “No one can take away what you’ve put in your own mind.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
Les Clarkstone, 89, said: "It was very comfortable and never murmured, so it was quite nice. I enjoyed it."
From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2026
"It's the only thing that makes me forget what's going on," he murmured.
From Barron's ● Feb. 1, 2026
“No, Barry, no,” I murmured, giggling, when Barry Keoghan’s Oliver stood over that grave, contemplating the unspeakable.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2024
They all murmured in agreement, and Boaz had to bite back the urge to laugh.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
This use of video—along with a murmuring choral background—makes Ana’s dream sequences, in which she tries to become part of the landscape, the most effective parts of the show.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 2026
"Like starlings murmuring in the sky," Miller said.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2025
The quiet murmuring of voices from the film playing on her screen helped her to drift off on a packed overnight flight.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2025
Showy but intimate, talky yet supple, it’s murmuring assurances to rebut the very doubts he’s raising.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2025
A few of the older boys seemed to suspect something was up, but they still left, murmuring their doubts.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
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