murmuring

Speech parts

1. murmuring - Noun

2. murmuring - Verb

4. murmuring - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Murmur

Uttering murmurs; making low sounds; complaining.

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Examples

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea. Paul Tillich

The stars of midnight shall be dear To her and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face. William Wordsworth

[T]he rare earth elements perplex us in our researches, baffle us in our speculations, and haunt us in our very dreams. They stretch like an unknown sea before us mocking, mystifying and murmuring strange revelations and possibilities. William Crookes

And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a long time they cannot distinguish even bones upon the lonely and inviolate sand. William Faulkner

To cleave that sea in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my mind the joy most apt to transport the heart of man into paradise. Nikos Kazantzakis

To be poor without murmuring is difficult. To be rich without being proud is easy. Confucius

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