murmurous

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Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for murmurous
Adjective
  • Like Colleen, Giurgis’ adaptation is allergic to the faintest traces of sincerity or urgency.
    Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The Winnipeg Jets came to Ball Arena and kept their faint playoff hopes alive with a 4-2 victory against the league-leading Avalanche.
    Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 29 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • The slide appears to have involved a thick slab of soft snow breaking loose at a weak layer in the snowpack, the report said.
    Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Endowed not only with a privileged birthright but—unlike the actual princes over in England, who had weak chins and went bald young—the physical stature to match?
    Jeffrey Eugenides, New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • The slide appears to have involved a thick slab of soft snow breaking loose at a weak layer in the snowpack, the report said.
    Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Sleeping positions and firmness Beyond mattress type, your preferred sleep position and mattress firmness (how hard or soft a bed feels) are other important factors to consider when buying a mattress.
    Sharon Brandwein, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • The cautious move in oil prices and relatively muted decline in Treasury yields suggest investors remain somewhat skeptical about an immediate end to the war.
    John Towfighi, CNN Money, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Calm interiors in muted shades of sand and tan do not overpower the landscape, which is the star of the show.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • But the social psychologists who catapulted to prominence in the early two-thousands were less interested in the richer concept of eudaemonia and more interested in a thinner, hollower, and vastly more individualistic enterprise of happiness, of simply feeling good.
    Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
  • These nanoframes, which are nanoscale metal structures with hollow, frame-like geometries, are of significant interest because of their unique ability to concentrate and manipulate light at very small scales.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 30 Mar. 2026
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“Murmurous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/murmurous. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.

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