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Sentence Examples A murmur is the sound of blood being pumped through the heart's chambers and valves. Cath watched long enough that the sounds in the cafeteria became a distant murmur, a sort of background noise to her thoughts. It sounds so innocuous, so harmless, like it would barely cause a murmur or a ripple. The whole medical section was silent for a moment save for the hum of equipment, then the background murmur started again. Snow-like petals carpeted the lawn, softening the sound of footsteps to a distant murmur. Usually a heart murmur is detected by a doctor who's listening to the heart with a stethoscope during a routine exam. There was a general murmur of thanks and hope-she-gets-betters, and then, one by one, they all left the hall in hushed excitement. I let out a breath, along with a little murmur of thanks to whatever god might be up there. He has always answered questions slowly at a voice level hardly above a murmur and it is no different today. He asked quietly in almost a murmur, shifting only slightly in his seat so as not to disturb his precious burden. Receiving only an inaudible murmur in response, he returned his attention to the occupied seats across the room. A murmur of disbelief spread through the room, but quieted when she spoke again. The young woman's attack raises a murmur of approval from the other women in the room. A soft murmur of agreement swept through the rest of them, and they were now facing the General with determination in their eyes. As they cross into his yard, their voices fade to a dull murmur punctuated by high laughter. The others murmur what could be approval or embarrassment, nurse their bourbons, and glumly fall back into silence. Nary a murmur of dissent was voiced amongst the remarkably relaxed muso crowd. The revelations silenced most supporters and he was hanged in Pentonville prison on 3 August 1916 with scarcely a murmur of protest. Sometimes, a doctor can determine with the stethoscope alone whether a particular murmur is a sign of heart disease. His face turned bright red as he began to murmur an answer while staring at her sheet. Show More Sentences And in both airports, the Swiss army knife on my keychain in my purse went through without a murmur. When Antoninus died on 7 March 161, Marcus Aurelius succeeded without a murmur from either the army or the Senate. The normal bustling activity of the place had subsided to a murmur by this time of night. He kept his disappointments to himself, a quiet murmur of disapproval usually being as far as it went. Here discourse is always already reduced to silence, the dumbness of a chirp, the murmur of a coo. There was no jugular venous distension, murmur, rub, gallop, thrill, or heave. Her jugular venous pressure was raised, she had a pansystolic murmur, and no added heart sounds. As the tangents diverge, a sample of found sound enters the piece, with crowd murmur and the whine of vehicle brakes. But they know they're on a hiding to nothing if they raise a murmur of objection. She had sufficient control over herself to accept his decision without a murmur, and to resign herself to his will. He would murmur a quiet corrective now and then, or insert an informative note, but never parade his learning. Ian thought he heard a murmur ripple through the crowd, and glanced quickly over his shoulder. An ominous murmur rippled through the crowd and many turned to examine their neighbors. And in both airports, the Swiss army knife on my key chain in my purse went through without a murmur. A brief murmur rippled through the assembly of firefighters only to be silenced by a gavel banging. In the 1930s and 1940s they saw hundreds of thousands of their fellow members liquidated, without a murmur of opposition. Manifestations include cardiomegaly, heart murmur, friction rub secondary to pericarditis, and congestive heart failure. Aside from the soft murmur of the pale man speaking to the hooded one and the occasional drip of some liquid, it was positively silent. You may, possibly, seduce their wives, embezzle their money, and steal their parking space, without so much as a murmur of reproof. There was a moment of near-silence in which a slight murmur of concern was audible. Show More Sentences Then it got peaceful, and everyone started eating, and there was only the low murmur of talk and laughter. It really is far from the madding crowd, the surrounding palm trees do sway, murmur and rustle, and barn owls hoot softly into the night. A holosystolic murmur that may radiate to the axilla, the upper sternal borders or the subscapular region is apparent on physical examination. The only sound heard over the murmur of the grievers was the opening and closing of the church doors. A doctor may suspect aortic valve sclerosis on hearing a heart murmur with a stethoscope. The omission was not only noticed by quiet observers but triggered general audience murmur well before the show's half-way mark. A precordial thrill, machinery-like murmur, and right bundle branch block were noted. This systolic thrill is associated with an ejection type murmur heard best over the pulmonary area. After a time he lost the power of walking and had to exchange his daily constitutional for a bath chair, but no murmur of complaint escaped him. Every so often, the roar would drop to a murmur, only to swell again after the next ball hit the ground with a muffled thud. Their vocals murmur melancholically, and every listen reveals something else in the depths of sound that you hadn't noticed before. Another sound in the nickelodeons was the murmur of immigrant voices translating aloud the titles into the languages of Europe. Which is more than can be said for the DJ, who made it through the evening without so much as a murmur. There was always a slight murmur, like the muted buzz of wasps in their nest. This deal would have gone through without a murmur if we hadn't fought back. They found a bier in the hall and candles burning, and were taken into an inner room to murmur condolences. Bear all miseries and evil without any murmur of hurt, without any thought of unhappiness, without any resistance, remedy or retaliation. All was quiet as death, silent as the grave, save for the faint murmur of my own breathing. A tricuspid regurgitant murmur may be heard, becoming more prominent as the right ventricle dilates. I rub her back, rock back and forth, murmur soothing nothings against her hair until the cramp subsides. Show More Sentences Without mum to say they won't eat potatoes they will probably do what you suggest without a murmur. The teacher was Ok, though, and she accepted my excuse of being lost without a murmur. After birth, the first sign of congenital heart disease is often the presence of a heart murmur. Adding to the mesmerizing murmur of the flowing water, the sounds of birds singing and cows mooing left one feeling totally at peace. All the while, the pitter-patter of beats, the abstracted swish of rain-washed streets and murmur of German voices. With a feeble murmur her head drooped backward from a sudden spell of dizziness. The murmur of incantation gurgled into silence, but not before a blazing inferno of heat erupted around him. The noises of the performance were now a distant murmur, but other than that it was completely silent. Remarkably, his countrymen, who had seen him swap valuable D-marks for worthless Ostmarks in 1990, accepted his decision with barely a murmur of dissent. Chloe heard herself murmur polite thank-yous and good nights to their hosts and the various guests they encountered on their path to the front door. Selling off the extras, I saw my neighbor marvel at the scent and murmur that he wished he could afford one. And the introduction of accumulators, where gamblers can win huge sums with a low stake by predicting a series of wins, gave him the odd heart murmur down the years. She weakly summoned the strength to murmur a goodbye, and then hung up. The odd whistle and occasional murmur slipped through from the usually voluble Parisians but otherwise they remained as unemotional as the protagonists on court. A low murmur of disapproval rippled throughout the audience. The first scene opens with the people of Thebes lying down on the stage as if almost dead and singing a monotonous murmur marked by the arhythmical beat of a drum. It is a deviation from the party line, but a murmur of assent goes up. The guests continued to chitchat through the meal, the conversation lulling to a dull murmur near the middle as they became full and rather sleepy. Then in a kind and soothing murmur he ran over the important points with Vance, who stood like one stunned. He had a loud and a soft systolic murmur over the tricuspid area. Show More Sentences The mix of cooking segments, pop concerts, and celebrity interviews is met with an unappreciative murmur. Many Eastwood critics, few of them academics, have done a great deal more than just murmur. She goes into the kitchen and I hear the sizzle of ham competing with the murmur of talk from the other room where I've already heard a fellow praying, leading prayer. Synths and strings melt together for a lush background murmur, behind the lean, precise jazz-pop song structures, all wrapped in thick, warm production. If you're looking for a glamorous night out, bathed in the glow of candlelight with the unassuming murmur of trip hop in the background, than you've come to the wrong place. The pin-drop silence at the start gradually melted into a gentle background murmur, full of the sound of papers rustling, friends whispering and restless feet shuffling. Flags flap briskly in a stiffening wind, providing the only sounds beyond the clicking of cameras and the distant murmur of cars making their slow, careful way to the site. He continues to explain himself in a murmur as the whole bank listens in. Her haggard face and melancholy expression elicited a murmur of shock from the assemblage of reporters as she moved to the podium and began to speak. When the change was announced in 1993 there was not a murmur of dissent. I was now ready to bear whatever might ensue without a murmur. Flaubert's most damning irony consists in his maintaining that an entire nation of shopkeepers can be reduced to the complacent murmur and bombination of a single voice. The airy sound of a panpipe cut through the dulled murmur that the crowd generated, providing a fluctuating countermelody to the sound of a stringed instrument. But all this is part of the past, and now Villahermosa awakens with the delicate murmur of the river and the fresh aroma of the flowers of the guaiacums. A droopy country-and-western singer's moustache had been left to grow, unrestrained under his nose and, when he spoke, it was in a barely audible murmur. There was a murmur of sympathy, and then beneath that a ripple of applause, and Ray Hartmann stood there, his heart beating, and he waited until the crowd had settled down before he spoke again. Examination revealed hepatosplenomegaly, and the systolic heart murmur was detected across the precordium, with radiation to the back. And if she did murmur something, why did Ingham choose not to record it? They occurred without a murmur of protest from the United States. Some people with MVP have both a click and a murmur and some have only a click. Show More Sentences Who can murmur sweet nothings to his adored when two soldiers armed to the teeth have been instructed never to let him out of their sight? Silence again, save for the crepitation of the flames, the fall of an ember, the murmur of the current. The crowd on the floor responded with a half-hearted murmur of assent. Fortunately, most heart murmurs in children are innocent, and Still's murmur is the most common of all innocent murmurs. In Portuguese, vowels after the stressed syllable can be pronounced with murmur. Physical examination showed a systolic murmur and an echocardiogram showed aortic stenosis. It is possible that the realization of murmur varies among individuals or languages. In that model, murmur is a compound phonation of approximately modal voice plus whisper. From an articulatory perspective, that terminology is incorrect, as murmur is a different type of phonation from aspiration. In fear of disease and in the interest of his health man will be muzzled and masked like a vicious dog, and that without any murmur of complaint. I'll be more than keen to stage a re-match in the near-future as that night David hit the sack without a murmur and sleptawell, like a baby. The moment had come for the honeyed word. I lowered my voice to a confidential murmur, but on her inquiring if I had laryngitis raised it again. I'll see your defective gallbladder and raise you one heart murmur and a kidney stone. No murmur other than the gentle nickering of the horses rides on the air. But after all the educated classes have a right to expect that their medical man will know the difference between a mitral murmur and a bronchitic rale. The Nguni languages within the southern branch of the Bantu languages, including Phuthi, Xhosa, Zulu, Southern Ndebele and Swazi, also have contrastive murmur. I replied, as I usually did whenever I had a chance, that nobody had ever loved anybody else as I loved Dora. Traddles came to my assistance with a confirmatory murmur. Graham fell in with the scheme without a murmur of dubiety or dissent. But when I got home and checked the contents of the bag, I realised that I had been allowed to take a Swiss army penknife into the ground without so much as a murmur. Look at a photo, raise a glass, enjoy a laugh, shed a tear, say a thanks, murmur a praise, pull up a clump of dandelions and offer it whole, cloddy roots and all. Examples from Classical Literature White Bear heard an amazed murmur from the crowd, and he himself felt his heart drop as if he plummeted unaware into a deep pit. All this the goggle-eyed mate had said in a resentful and melancholy voice, with pauses, to the gentle murmur of the sea. As a contrabass to the rhythm of the blacksmiths hammer, the booming murmur of the sea trembled across the summer air. And this voice was accompanied by a deep and monotonous murmur, and by the ground bass of the daraboukkeh. There was no one in the room, but from the one which adjoined it in the rear came the murmur of voices. A faint murmur of approval arose in the court, which was promptly suppressed as the crown prosecutor rose. The murmur of voices thickened, and there was no rumbling in the skittle alley to interrupt it. There was a short consultation, the hush of something wrong, and a murmur of an objection. The only answer that he received for some time was a loud and ill-boding murmur. It was useless, however, to cry over spilt milk, or to murmur against the mysterious decrees of Providence. There was a low murmur, and Arizona raised a pair of fierce eyes to his face. He has been able to cross by train the forest-clad heights of the Atlas Mountains, where clear brooks murmur among the trees. I put in a bill for a plug hat twice a year and he paid it without a murmur. It came when Lee grimaced at him and called the deckhand in a feeble murmur. This murmur may be transmitted out into the axilla and be heard at the inferior angle of the left scapula. Mr Verloc intimated in a throaty, veiled murmur that he was no longer young. Is the stream going steadily on, or is it rather like a babbling brook, making a pleasant murmur but with little power? Unmistakably the rough breathing of a man was mingled with the softer murmur of a woman. But there was the murmur of a woman's voice without, and Fairfax, his sculpting tools in his hands, opened the door. Wherever he went and whatever he did these confused suspicions resounded in his ears like the murmur in a seashell. Show More Sentences She had risen, the last refrain of the ronde had ended in a murmur of surprise. They knew no surcease from labor, but toiled on without murmur or complaint. They went on with the murmur and susurrus of their communion, while Charity looked askance at the three men. At once to a murmur of bravos, the applause of gloved hands and a cry of bis! The laugh was repeated in its low, syllabic tone, and terminated in an odd murmur. The riotous preparations and annunciatory yells had died away to an intimate murmur of conversation. The pinging of the gnats hovering over and among the sedges made an incessant murmur through the warm, sultry air. I have done so without a murmur, although it puts me into a ticklish position. The boatmen of the Malabar Coast face the surf singing no other than the refrain that the Basque women murmur over the cradle. And Mr Powell, flattered and embarrassed, could but emit a vague murmur of protest. All present knew the meaning of this, and regarded the cacti with a murmur of satisfaction. There is not a trace of murmur to be found in connection with the valves and orifices. The rules forbid applause, but a gentle murmur of admiration rises at the close of almost every morceau. Here were gathered people who worked always in that circumfluent inspiration, that murmur of liberty, that whisper of humanity. It is a fixed charge, and you pay it cheerfully, you pay it without a murmur. Blaming him, her fountain of colour shot up, at a murmur of her unjustness and the poor man's hopes. The voice became a murmur, and then Andy knew that it had been some man speaking in his sleep. The water poured over the flashboard with a splashing murmur at that distance, and ran down under the bridge in a rocky bed. There was not a word of gratitude to this man, not a murmur of vengeance nor of revolt. Now let us suppose that we have found a mitral systolic murmur. Show More Sentences And in the painful cleaning of the wound he did not murmur once. A change now came in the service, from the murmur of half-spoken prayers. President McKinley was renominated without a murmur of dissent. If one laid a finger on the string, the sound answered to the flapping of the runner in a sort of hollow intermittent murmur. But this acquiescent murmur made him long to smooth it down. A murmur of adulatory incredulity arose from the group of courtiers. The Premier was expected, and there was murmur of an archduke. Her glance wandered from his face away toward the Gulf, whose sonorous murmur reached her like a loving but imperative entreaty. The rustic cackle of his bourg drowns the murmur of the world. Its thunder, which began as a distant kettledrum murmur, approaches with ever-sharper cracks that rock the canyon, rattling us in the process. They had not needed for that the faint warning murmur from daman. All eyes turned toward the bridal party, and a murmur of amazement went through the throng, for neither bride nor groom removed their masks. She sighed a murmur of dispraise, At which, methought, the rafters shook. A murmur of dissent from the others drove him back into shy silence. When the interpreter passed this on, he stopped at a dissentient murmur. Grisell could not repress a dissentient murmur of indignation. And dont worry about changing, as doggie began to murmur excuses, I cant. All the crew of the Douro went down with her, literally without a murmur. On the way home he continued to murmur murmurs of embitterment to himself. He could hear them, like a faraway murmur, a purring, uncertain sound. Show More Sentences The drowsing murmur of the five and twenty studying scholars soothed the soul like the spell that is in the murmur of bees. Eric galvanized his attention and turned with a murmur of apology. In the next room the voices of the four were a steady, rumbling murmur. What went on there, Meg could not see, but shrieks of laughter were heard, followed by the murmur of voices and a great flapping of newspapers. Linda could not tell what was happening from the murmur of voices. There was silence as deep as before, after one short, inarticulate murmur. Her lips moved, at first inaudibly, but presently in a low murmur. Positively, there did seem to be a kind of stifled murmur, within! The murmur of pleasant conversation was incessant and musical. As these occurred, a rustling and a murmur expressed the subdued applause. He heard the songs peculiar to busy toilers, a murmur of many workshops, the rasping of files, and the sound of falling hammers. The broken sounds floated down through an open window and out across the murmur of voices and the loud blare of the horns of the band. Voices came to him in an indistinguishable murmur, intensely irritating to a conscientious tracker. Where was the clang of tramcar gongs, the screech of motor horns, the vast murmur of a dense throng? There was a murmur of voices in her, metallic hollow clangs of the engine-room, footsteps on the deck. A subdued murmur of assent ran through the ranks of the Artisans, and Chromatistes, in alarm, attempted to step forward and address them. I took it to be rain, but it turned out to be only the murmur of the restless Neckar, tumbling over her dikes and dams far below, in the gorge. She even went so far as to murmur that they were non-essentials and that my trip after them might be inexpedient. But, instead of a response from Hepzibah, she seemed to hear the murmur of an unknown voice. I heard him murmur something about the servants and fumble for the switch. Show More Sentences Change in the cardiac murmur or signs of cardiac failure, such as crepitations at the lung bases or raised jugular venous pressure. Against such a decree there was no Delaware sufficiently hardy to murmur, much less oppose himself. In addition to all this, a loud murmur was heard along his passage, which did not die away till some time after he had passed. In the least disfavor, these humbler voices accompanied in harmonious accents the murmur of my own heart. A murmur of disgust at his poltroonery ran through the ranks. There had been a murmur, presumably of remonstrance, from Helen. It is the peculiarity of Russian natures that, however strongly engaged in the drama of action, they are still turning their ear to the murmur of abstract ideas. She who had often chafed and fretted in past days under the monotony of her life in the freedom of Combe-Raven, now accepted without a murmur the monotony of her life at Mrs. He will invite the dullest of them to stay with him for quite prolonged visits, and without a murmur set apart a suite of chapters for their accommodation. Upon this, we all took courage to unite in a confirmatory murmur. Two or three students listened again to recognise the murmur or the crepitation which the physician described, and then the man was told to put on his clothes. We men of peace are taught humility, And to bear many burdens on our backs, And not to murmur at an unjust world, And to endure unjust indignities. These words were followed by a general murmur, and it was evident that several of the members were discussing the propriety of making the general repent of his rashness. There was a cousinly murmur of pleasure between the ladies, and Mrs. Murmur is regarded as mutiny, and he who complains is shot as a conspirator. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of murmur? Words that rhyme with murmur What is the past tense of murmur? What is the plural of murmur? What is the adverb for murmur? What is the adjective for murmur? What is the noun for murmur? Translations for murmur Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Murky murky murkiness murkily murkiest murkier murmuration murmured murmuring murmurings murmurous murmurs 6-letter Words Starting With m mu mur murm murmu