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• v  make a murmuring sound
• s  characterized by soft sounds
  a soughing wind in the pines

• Witness Nokia, which for its latest range of upmarket phones commissioned from Eno a suite of 20 subtle ring tones based on the soughing of Saharan winds.
• Fifteen British steam trawlers use such microphones to hear the soughing of hurried schools of herring.
• The Florida breeze soughing in the pines by the stable at 7:30 a.

• sough
• purl
• murmurous
• rustling
• susurrous

Quotes

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• Henrik Ibsen in The Guardian
  Ibsen described it as a place of "storming, soughing, seething waters".