Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Plural form of susurration.
Examples
“An unpleasant, insectile sound emanated from within: wings on metal and the susurrations and bombilations of an angry hive, a venomous swarm.”
“Wrap them in your jungle steam, but best to heed their susurrations.”
“The susurrations that Rob Simmons might return to the Connecticut Senate race after losing out at the state convention continue to grow louder.”
“These, with soft susurrations of wind and water, reliably join in some semblance of harmony.”
“Neighbors talked about me in huddles, their worry emerging in susurrations.”
“When I heard their susurrations, I thought at first that I was somehow drunk and calling a 1-900 number and paying for someone to purr.”
“Then it is so quiet I can hear my own misgivings, small susurrations in the air around me.”
“Even the people in the gallery could feel it, small susurrations of surprise swept through the rows.”
“All they had to watch out for now between there and the sea were joggers lost in the susurrations of their multihundred-dollar Walkmen and renegade poodles desperately on the prowl for an unlicensed coupling.”
Jed the Dead
“The Hiroguchis, for example, whose susurrations Mary had heard through the back of her closet, were then changing their opinions of themselves and each other, and of love and sex and work and the world and so on, with lightning speed.”
Galapagos
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘susurrations’.
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The Last Werewolf
This novel by Glen Duncan, aside from being a ripping yarn and beautifully written, is just littered with words that I had to look up and discover that often his use of the word not only fitted per...
gurns, bok, chimney breast, dichotomy, Platonic form, filthy, Platonic Form, mathematics, BAM, skirls, clarity, blundering and 298 more...
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Words i had to look up
hermeneutics, flimflam, semi-parodic, motes, susurrations, phantasm, egregiously, monoglot, galluptious, exigency, agrimony, gibbous and 111 more...
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Former ghosts
Ghost words that I've adopted because the original listers abandoned them. Yarb has more in his Adoption agency, and many orphlings are tagged as ghosted, ghost phrases, misspellings, or typos.
orphling, listkeeper, grandmotherly, scroogish, theocon, frownie, afternoons, loggin, supercalliwhat, avunculate, kokako, stygimolochs and 379 more...
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Sounds like feels like
wichok, thunked, shosh, maggot-tickled, zammo, shtoom, buckle and snap, BAM, bok, honked, whooped, shuddered and 24 more...
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Louises At times I half convinced myself I could hear - in the trees' susurrations, in the chuckle of water, in the soft clamour of thin air - the Almighty's condemnation. From "The Last Werewolf" by Glen Duncan. Feb 27, 2012