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  • noun Plural form of whisper.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of whisper.

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Examples

  • Although your peers may think that’s something “cool,” everyone he comes into contact with who hears his name whispers behind his back.

    Raw Law Esq Muhammad Ibn Bashir 2010

  • Although your peers may think that’s something “cool,” everyone he comes into contact with who hears his name whispers behind his back.

    Raw Law Esq Muhammad Ibn Bashir 2010

  • Although your peers may think that’s something “cool,” everyone he comes into contact with who hears his name whispers behind his back.

    Raw Law Esq Muhammad Ibn Bashir 2010

  • Some of the passengers exclaim in whispers, childishly, softly,

    Lance Mannion: 2009

  • Yellow Handkerchief took the tiller, issuing his orders in whispers; and from our position at the time, and from the alteration of the sail, which I could dimly make out above me as a blot against the stars, I knew the junk was being headed into the mouth of a small slough which emptied at that point into San Rafael Creek.

    YELLOW HANDKERCHIEF 2010

  • Some of the passengers exclaim in whispers, childishly, softly,

    Thoughts on setting out to read the collected correspondence of the poets Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop 2009

  • The spirit of the place descended upon Saxon and Billy, and they walked softly, speaking in whispers, almost afraid to go in through the open ports.

    CHAPTER VI 2010

  • The whispers from the back of life were growing dim as my mind and body soddened.

    Chapter 14 2010

  • They spoke only in whispers, and I saw them all as agelessly fusty.

    Roger Fransecky: What Will You Remember? Roger Fransecky 2010

  • I was engrossed with a memorizing the details of a large figure of the male reproductive system in my textbook until I heard the gasps and whispers from the other passengers.

    Panties and Seduction Candid Engineer 2008

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