Example Sentences

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As I drifted to sleep, he said “I love you” so inaudibly, maybe I imagined it.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2025

Perhaps the most bizarre moment at Wednesday's event at the Toyota Music Factory in Irving came when Liverpool's Bellew inaudibly shouted into a microphone – which he had brought along - from the press area.

From BBC • Nov. 14, 2024

“It’s a hard thing,” he said, almost inaudibly.

From Washington Post • Mar. 23, 2019

For each one, Harris replied, almost inaudibly, “No contest.”

From New York Times • Dec. 12, 2018

Faint, almost inaudibly, he heard Frodo whispering: ‘Help me, Sam! Help me, Sam! Hold my hand! I can’t stop it.’

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien