Murmuring

"Murmuring" in a Sentence (14 examples)

We can hear a brook murmuring.

The laborers are murmuring against their working conditions.

In the distance I hear the sound of softly murmuring roads.

The vegetation and the murmuring water calm my ardent mind. A wind turbine rotates behind the trees.

Those indignant winds grumble with a loud murmuring around the confines of the mountain; Aeolus sits in his high citadel, holding his scepter, and he soothes their spirits and tempers their rages: if he did not do this, they would surely snatch away seas and lands and the deep heaven itself, and sweep them off through the windy sky.

The maniacs tore him limb from limb, and threw his head and his lyre into the river Hebrus, down which they floated, murmuring sad music, to which the shores responded a plaintive symphony.

Bucklaw, who still breathed, was raised from the ground, and transported to another apartment, where his friends, full of suspicion and murmuring, assembled round him to learn the opinion of the surgeon.

For he hath heard your murmuring against the Lord: but as for us, what are we, that you mutter against us?

And Moses said: In the evening the Lord will give you flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full: for he hath heard your murmurings, with which you have murmured against him, for what are we? your murmuring is not against us, but against the Lord.

Moses also said to Aaron: Say to the whole congregation of the children of Israel: Come before the Lord; for he hath heard your murmuring.

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Iron and coal were the magnets that drew railways to this land of lovely valleys and silent mountains—for such it was a century-and-a-half ago, before man blackened the valleys with the smokes of his forges, scarred the green hills with his shafts and waste-heaps, and drove the salmon from the quiet Rhondda and the murmuring Taff.

the murmurings of trees in the wind

Do all things without murmurings and disputings.

When Mrs. Churchill's orders were made known, they caused many secret marvellings and murmurings.

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