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Example sentences for "murmured the"

  • At the sound of his voice every vestige of colour fled from Winifred's cheeks, and the work upon which she was engaged fell from her hand.

  • The monster, Wild, when he visited my dungeon last night, told me, to add to my misery, that she occupied a cell near me.

  • What motive can you have for so vile a deed?

  • That man should have been an Italian bravo," murmured the knight, sinking into a chair: "he has neither fear nor compunction.

  • I have often conjured up some frightful vision of the dead," murmured the knight, "but I never dreamed of an interview with the living.

  • At length I am my own master," murmured the knight, as his foot touched the strand.

  • See, the priest is coming in," murmured the abbess, who immediately crossed herself, and lowered her eyes in devotion.

  • I am the queen of sorrow, crowned and frozen on my desert throne," murmured the girl, in a trance-like abstraction.

  • I will take you again to your own little room in the Infants' Asylum," murmured the lady, as she turned with her protegee into the rectangular passage leading to the asylums.

  • Your eyes have deceived you," murmured the abbess, gently.

  • Let us hear it," murmured the duke, closing his eyes, and letting his head droop upon the pillow.

  • Good, good," murmured the duke to himself; and then he began to pace forth and back the length of the apartment.

  • But it is an outrage," murmured the duke, somewhat pacified.

  • Reverend father," murmured the bravo, "may I not receive absolution for my sins!

  • Sin Sin Wa's Joss," murmured the proprietor, as Bryce closed the outer door.

  • He supplies me with cocaine," murmured the comedian.

  • You catchee sleepee, Tling-a-Ling," murmured the Chinaman.

  • It would be too much for one,' murmured the lady.

  • The laudanum has taken effect at last,' murmured the girl, as she rose from the bedside.

  • The cloud is on my sight, and the burthen is on my soul, and I cannot read thy rede," murmured the Vala.

  • And he murmured the Song of Songs: "Let her kiss me with kisses of her mouth, For her teats are better than wine.

  • Poor things, murmured the player; no doubt, among the number there are some who cannot work.

  • This was then his chief preoccupation, while he murmured the long Credo, partook of Christ, and recited his prayers.

  • I confess,' murmured the listener, 'that I thought him justified in his support of the Gothic kingdom.

  • Indeed, I should not think it easy,' murmured the other, his eyes cast down.

  • I say not,' murmured the listener, 'that you do wrong to love your country.

  • This is all very well," murmured the king, "yes, this is just the account the duke gave me of the affair.

  • We say, 'Proud as a Scotsman,'" murmured the Duke of Buckingham.

  • I have stated the truth," murmured the magistrate.

  • I suffer," murmured the advocate, "and very cruelly.

  • If all the witnesses were like this bright little fellow," murmured the commissary, "what a pleasure it would be!

  • I should have done better not to have come," murmured the advocate.

  • He will have a paralytic stroke," murmured the senators to one another.

  • It will be all in vain, and I shall lose him," murmured the king.

  • The king is hungry," murmured the soldier, sadly, as he glanced at the bread in his hand.

  • Really," murmured the professor, "this is most interesting!

  • They're just kind o' bashful," murmured the peddler, in apology for his people.

  • I should think," murmured the other, "that he might be even proud of it.

  • We'll have to do it, Jack," murmured the elder of the girls.

  • Miss Jacky ain't much of a hand with a needle," murmured the girl at the sewing-machine.

  • It is well," murmured the regent, somewhat impatiently.

  • Slower also to go back, perchance, my brother," murmured the dervish.

  • They seem a bit out of hand," murmured the captain.

  • Youngest troops in the square, sir," murmured the aide, looking at them critically through his eye-glass.


    • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "murmured the" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    assured him; been made; behold the; chair close; diplomatic intercourse; either parent; fought field; grape juice; historic period; make hast; murmured the; must wait; natural ability; quite still; sincerely hope; spiritual house; stand for; that old; total length; treating disease; vertical plane; voluntary death