murmur
Example Sentences
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Something you accept with a paper napkin under fluorescent lighting and a murmur of gratitude.
From Salon • Mar. 31, 2026
Yet they swallowed it with hardly a murmur.
From Salon • Feb. 7, 2026
The first replay showed a murmur of a noise on the technology and Smith immediately started to walk from the field.
From BBC • Nov. 22, 2025
My son and my husband each murmur happy greetings in response, assuming I was talking to them—and Thomas, ever the diplomat, says nothing to correct the record.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 11, 2025
“She reminds me of Mrs. Newman, with all those bangles,” I murmur.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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