Synonyms:
murmuring, susurrant, whispering
Meaning: making a low continuous indistinct sound; "like murmuring waves"; "susurrant voices"
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
mutter, muttering, murmur, murmuring, murmuration, mussitation
Meaning: a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech
Usage examples
He became conscious of a buzzing, murmuring sound.
Along the star-glimmered mountain tops a vast clustering herd of black, murmuring, advancing.
We say that the omitted dream speeches, which were disguised by a murmuring, were also sacrifices to a censorship.
Not far off ran a pretty streamlet, looking clear and bright; but here also in its murmuring waters, the sister heard the words--
Yet, Sarka knew, remembering the murmuring of the blue column as it came out of the cone, all this devastation had been caused in almost absolute silence.
At one time he would suddenly yield to his humble, venerable friend, murmuring grievously at the constraint that was put upon him, but without spirit enough even to complain of it with energy.
The words of her speech in the dream are, 'I and numerous other women and girls of Vienna are ready for the soldiers, troops, and officers, without distinction....' Here in the dream follows a murmuring.
There was another long speech from Gurgurk, with the nobles behind him murmuring antiphonal agreement--standard procedure, for which there was a standard pun, geek chorus--and a speech of response from Sid Harrington.
"We've been too good--much too good," Mrs. Wilkins kept on murmuring as they walked up and down the platform at Victoria, having arrived there an hour before they need have, "and that's why we feel as though we're doing wrong.
I then moved forward, and a murmuring sound arose from the crowd as they followed and surrounded me, when an ill-looking man approaching tapped me on the shoulder and said, "Come, sir, you must follow me to Mr. Kirwin's to give an account of yourself."