How do you use Murmuring in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like mutter or muttering, plus the exact meaning.
Murmuring in a sentence
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Murmuring meaning
present participle and gerund of murmur
Synonyms of Murmuring
Using Murmuring
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of murmur
- Useful related words include: mutter, muttering, murmur, grumbling.
- In the example corpus, murmuring often appears in combinations such as: murmuring obols, murmuring that, the murmuring.
Context around Murmuring
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 13 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Murmuring
- In this selection, "murmuring" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, fans, soft, people, obols, uncomfortably and waheguru stand out and add context to how "murmuring" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a quiet murmuring that a and and ineffectually murmuring oh dear. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "murmuring" sits close to words such as abdulai, abhinandan and abhor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with murmuring
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Pay enough attention to your newborn and respond to their soft murmuring sounds. (13 words)
The last and fateful words from Eddard Stark, warden of the north was murmuring. (14 words)
They are, I suppose, the millennial equivalent of having the radio murmuring softly in the background. (16 words)
Ovid wrote that the river flowed through the cave of Hypnos, god of sleep, where its murmuring would induce drowsiness. citation The shades of the dead were required to drink the waters of the Lethe in order to forget their earthly life. (42 words)
But in the corners of the room and on some tables at the Crown-sponsored event, there was a quiet murmuring that a long drawn-out negotiation on the AFL’s betting rights partner had entered its final phases. (39 words)
The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, :Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, :Stand like Druids of old, with voices sad and prophetic, :Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
Makar's goal came off a clean faceoff win by Colorado and left Seattle's fans murmuring uncomfortably instead of the deafening cheers in the opening moments of the game.
Overall, it's important for a player to invest their Murmuring Obols to fill in the gaps in their armor.
Therefore, after failing to find a legendary chest piece during a public event a player may wish to then take these Murmuring Obols they earned from completing it and using them to test their chances.
You might have seen his lips moving, which Virdi reveals was him murmuring "Waheguru" - meaning "God" in Sikhism.
Pay enough attention to your newborn and respond to their soft murmuring sounds.
Since Bobrisky fully transformed into a feminine species, Tonto Dikeh has developed an unusual fondness and attachment for her and this had people murmuring under their breath that something fishy was going on between the two.
They would clutch their copies of in front of their hearts, murmuring about how they tried to understand the fusillade of economic anxiety bullets hurtling toward them at the speed of sound.
But in the corners of the room and on some tables at the Crown-sponsored event, there was a quiet murmuring that a long drawn-out negotiation on the AFL’s betting rights partner had entered its final phases.
They are, I suppose, the millennial equivalent of having the radio murmuring softly in the background.
They are often seen deep in prayer, poring through their scriptures or rotating their prayer wheels while murmuring their prayers.
But based on this early murmuring around the winter meetings in Las Vegas, it’s clear that he’s at least open to exploring all options at this point in the offseason.
However, after each cycle – flatulent indie, breathy electro, murmuring rappers who only use vowels – is complete, the artists who participated rarely disappear; they just continue releasing music that fewer people care about.
She reported to Joseph and after a brief talk with the staffs involved, the murmuring stopped.
The convict, dressed in a pair of jeans over a shirt to match was spotted murmuring and occasionally raising his head up as if he was praying and asking for divine intervention.
The last and fateful words from Eddard Stark, warden of the north was murmuring.
By the end of his premiership his puppet would often be shown observing the latest fiasco and ineffectually murmuring "oh dear".
He was famously said to have encouraged himself by murmuring "Konstantí, you are going to die" every time he was approaching a Turkish warship on the fire boat he was about to detonate.
Ovid wrote that the river flowed through the cave of Hypnos, god of sleep, where its murmuring would induce drowsiness. citation The shades of the dead were required to drink the waters of the Lethe in order to forget their earthly life.
Rumours circulated that the King supported the Irish, and Puritan members of the Commons soon started murmuring that this exemplified the fate that Charles had in store for them all.
The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, :Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, :Stand like Druids of old, with voices sad and prophetic, :Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.
Common combinations with murmuring
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: