murmur
noun
a low, continuous sound, as of a brook, the wind, or trees, or of low, indistinct voices.
were murmuring
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past progressiveof murmur.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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As they entered the classrooms, the students wiped the dust off the desks but already some of the teachers were murmuring that, unexpectedly, the school would have to shut down again.
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2022
Initially, it sounded as if someone were murmuring in the corner.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 12, 2018
By 2015, however, the numbers had started to slip, and critics were murmuring about Esquire’s seemingly aimless web strategy.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2017
Barry Rosen, a lawyer who has been friends with Garland since the fifth grade, said: “All of us were murmuring, ‘How could this happen?
From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2016
The people in the group had turned from me and were murmuring in low voices to each other.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
