Example Sentences

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“Alfie” is whisperingly intimate, with Kirk concentrating on just the tenor, and taking his place in the continuum of master balladeers like Ben Webster and Don Byas.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 1, 2026

His works save not a building’s walls, floors, windows or doors but remains of architectural habitation: whisperingly faint but still visceral remnants of actual bodies that occupied real space.

From New York Times • Apr. 29, 2019

Elaine de Kooning was widely if whisperingly accused of taking lovers who could help her husband’s career, but it seems that she was able to serve her own reputation, too.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 1, 2018

Directors or actors who failed to make the expected impact in Hollywood would be whisperingly dismissed as box-fodder.

From The Guardian • Feb. 23, 2011

Rather those who come with clank of arms, tearing open the door with drawn sword, than those who with inaudible step steal in, gently open the door, whisperingly speak and tremblingly pronounce your name.

From Debts of Honor by Yolland, Arthur B. (Arthur Battishill)