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Sentence Examples
I shrieked and jumped back, as he, laughing with amusement, murmured another set of words and a different ray of light extinguished the fire.
With a pained expression the boss went to write the cheque, and the kangarooer murmured.
The service itself passed in a blur of kindly faces, murmured condolences and ecclesiastic efficiency.
Eastern stylists cattishly murmured that this was going too far, even for California.
Someone in the crowd murmured a smart remark that caused a group of girls to erupt into a fit of laughter.
Deirdre murmured, a tear tracing a path down her cheek, from sympathy, or from the bruises Alana was probably inflicting, he had no idea.
I wasn't, though I probably just murmured something vague in reply, and I may have given a wan smile.
The man grinned, then reached out, gently touching Lexa's shoulders with both hands, and murmured, in a sing-song voice.
The other woman, her voice lower, murmured some words of consolation to her friend.
He brought the same quiet wryness to his conversation, and many of his remarks were all the funnier for his murmured, throwaway delivery.
I murmured a prayer to St. Anthony to find a lost paper, looked down, and my hand was on it.
Everyone nodded and murmured their assent, and then began to shout out suggestions.
Above hung the thymy hill where dry grasses and bracken murmured or screamed in the wind.
Systematically she then sprinkled ash all over the pounder and over herself, murmured secret mantras and fell flat before the pounder.
The white-haired woman murmured a few words and the girl sighed, then said something that made both women laugh.
The soldiers murmured as a few of their number did as Amerial requested, unbarring and unlocking the door.
He murmured, slipping into the uncultured speech of the poorer class as he comforted the man in his arms.
I murmured something back, still smiling about nothing, then took a large swallow from my drink, keeping my face in the glass.
Breaking radio silence, Brenda slipped me a piece of paper with murmured instructions to swallow it.
Keeping her head penitently bowed, Allie murmured silent good byes to all she could remember in the heat, while tears dared to brink her dark lashes.
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The voice murmured something and the door to their right opened.
Melvin approached from behind her, and murmured a polite greeting.
When I landed on the hard ground I murmured at the mean treatment of the sheep, and, glancing my eye upward, saw him looking at me from the roof of the house.
Inside the small room, the guests would later lift their glasses, their murmured good wishes blending together.
Scaring objected and the judge murmured a reproval, but it was too late: it had been said.
Waiter murmured something soothing and reported to the headwaiter, who sizing up the guest, advised the waiter to try a blank check.
No longer able to speak, she murmured and nodded approvingly, something she had not done for three days.
The moment is fateful, but things do not get much beyond murmured intimations.
The old hermit suddenly ceased to speak and murmured, 'Yes, we must have a break.
But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at it, said to them: Do you take offence at this?
He murmured, gently tugging my arm and pulling me into his lap.
She whispered, but Will murmured in an undertone for her to be quiet.
I stroked his head and murmured calming words and it seemed to help.
Theo murmured that these were animal tracks that we were following, not human, but I pushed on until we turned a corner and met a curved lip of eroded rock.
A television murmured somewhere down the hall, and a ventilation fan thumped in a nearby window.
He murmured something softly, but I had already left the room.
The huffy silence at the end of the debate must be subtly taken advantage of and the following words murmured as if the thought just occurred that moment.
I murmured the conventional things about his roles in film and theatre.
They can no longer resort to the sly glance, the murmured remark that reveals the underestimated intelligence of the wife, the mother, the daughter.
In the history of several languages, like Greek and some varieties of Chinese, murmured stops have developed into aspirated stops.
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Later she murmured approval as Tori Spelling showed off hostessing tips.
He grunted and murmured, until his face calmed, the eyelids smoothing into slumber, the brows unfurrowing.
However, murmured and aspirated stops are acoustically similar in that in both cases there is a delay in the onset of full voicing.
Snatches of German and Cantonese waft downstairs from the second-grader's bedroom, mingling with Danish and Russian phrases murmured by the preschooler making Play-Doh cookies on the kitchen floor.
Examples from Classical Literature
Once more she slicked down the soft fur of her foster child and murmured gentle words of love.
How the sea, which lay like a watcher at their doors, murmured in its sleep!
His voice was quiet as he murmured, softly, implacably, before he was gone.
But it will be different with you, Sir, Joseph murmured, taking Azariah's hand.
The other murmured something in a voice that did not intelligently reach the planting.
To whoever occupied the room he murmured a few words of apology in Wolof, the Sengalese lingua franca.
It was Naida who murmured, and there was excitement and pleasure in her voice.
I murmured, and turning once more from her, rushed away like one crazed into the wood.
He regarded her with awe and veneration, and murmured that she was a lily of goodness.
Her lips had murmured an Our Father, but so slowly that the Sanctus bell had rung before she had finished it.
The old doctor murmured some words about amphoric breathing, and a sound such as a cracked jar might give out.
He has had much to embitter him,' he murmured, and straightway fainted again.
Then he murmured a faquir's blessing in his ear, and asked him how his second wife did.
The breeze murmured more persistently, and anon with its dreamlike sound there mingled the frou-frou of a woman's skirts.
Dumb were its walls as when they refused to return the murmured orisons of the anchorite.
And thats why Tom didnt want to get dressed, and come with us, murmured Phil in SIDS ear when he got a chance.
The only voices now were the murmured words of Mansur and anis as they bent over Qutuz's body.
I stand corrected, murmured Louise, in what was meant to be an abject voice.
I lamely murmured some inanity, of which she took not the slightest notice.
The airboat murmured overhead, hot gold in the sunset light.
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And Dr. Atherton's murmured something that we did not catch.
The child murmured, Let me stay in the bright presence of your augustness.
Thats what Ive tried to say to Eleanor, Mrs. Averil murmured.
Helen murmured ambiguously, and did not commit herself to one answer rather than to another.
I get awful homesick for them, all the same,' she murmured, as if she were answering some remembered reproach.
But she who had murmured as a wife was not complaisant as a mistress.
Until one evening, with a stifled sigh, she murmured the word, cribbage!
I am no great clerk at those matters but I murmured vaguely an allusion to special licences.
After a while, they came to a thick patch of woodland, through which murmured a clear brook.
Honorius murmured a few words of silent thankfulness and prayer.
Saxon murmured, her hands tightly clasped in anguish of incomprehension and vital need to know.
She braved it for a moment or two with an eye full of love and stubbornness, and murmured a phrase or two vaguely of Gen.
Bellona tossed and murmured as ever, yet still slept her uneasy sleep.
Raffles murmured of Whistler and of Arthur Severn, and threw away a good Sullivan because the smoke would curl between him and the picture.
He will come back, murmured chavvy, in concordance with her leitmotif.
He took it from her, murmured a few words of thanks, and then fled, with the lilting step of the clerk.
Miss Elenore was fondest of animals, though, she murmured, absently.
More than him has done that,' said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent.
They parted with tears and kisses and murmured protestations of fidelity.
Chris murmured, and taking out his spyglass looked through it.
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God bless ye, and have ye in His holy keeping, men, murmured old Bildad, almost incoherently.
The wheels of a cab grazed the kerbstone, a murmured direction followed.
They broke up as they murmured, and disappeared among the other bees, from whom, of course, they were undistinguishable.
A word with you,' murmured Tackleton, nudging the Carrier with his elbow, and taking him a little apart.
He caressed his mother and murmured incoherently, as had tump Pack.
Thinking it professional to prevaricate, he murmured something about a nervous breakdown.
Her sobs broke out afresh, and she murmured some inarticulate thanks to me for not having driven her away from the door.
Very fine trick, said Abie, while the others murmured their surprise.
Here the clerk Adrian presently found him, and murmured some apology.
His own skin had sizzled under the red-hot brand, he murmured softly.
But the old man was at his last gasp, and had barely murmured his confession of faith when he expired.
These rapid remarks, murmured as they were, struck his ear by one of those acoustic rebounds which are very little studied.
Those who understood Swahili murmured eagerly to those who did not.
Major Thomson's face was expressionless and his murmured word non-committal.
He murmured this confidentially, so that none of the men at the falls should overhear, and I was shocked.
It was a thriftless old door, such as bachelors kept, she murmured.
Indeed, murmured Captain macedoine with a faint smile, he had it still.
She leant against the chest of drawers, and murmured incoherent supplications for a long while, till she suddenly started up.
She murmured a lame excuse, and Miss Harding glared at her witheringly.
No fairy fingers can have pressed the gold, but devil's claws must have left their mouldings there since yesterday, murmured Starbuck to himself, leaning against the bulwarks.
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Miss Allan meanwhile murmured with the curious intimacy which a spinster often achieves with dogs, to the fox-terrier which Evelyn had at last induced to come over to them.
The doctor murmured inarticulately, gave a long gasp or two and was still.
