susurrus

Example Sentences

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Inside the packed dining room, which seats 87, you can always hear the comforting susurrus of meat cooking over wood fire.

From New York Times

Nothing will ever really replicate that: the movement of the paper, the susurrus of the pages, and the friction as you turn the page are all impossible to achieve digitally.

From The Verge

There was a whispering noise that began then to run through the hall, a low susurrus that caused Shadow, in his dream, to experience a chilling and inexplicable fear.

From Literature

The wall of a tent leans up over my face, not visible but audible, a slanting plane of faint sound: the susurrus of blown snow.

From Literature

Dread creeps in; the ear instinctively fastens on anything, whether fire-hiss or bird call or susurrus of leaves, that will save it from this unknown emptiness.

From Economist