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• v  speak softly; in a low voice
• s  spoken in soft hushed tones without vibrations of the vocal cords
  a long whispered conversation

• Instead he gave the world a gift: he saw the flag-draped casket approach, his mother bent and whispered in his ear, and he raised his hand in salute.
• If the ending of Eleanor Bergstein's script is too neat and inspirational, the rough energy of the film's song and dance does carry one along, past the whispered doubts of better .
• His enemies whispered that he aimed to depose Maximilian and get the throne of Mexico for himself.

• whisper

• shout

News & Articles

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• LATEST NEWS
  BRIDGEPORT -- A report ranking the country's most violent cities would seem to confirm what suburban neighbors of the state's largest city have long whispered behind their white picket fences -- Bridgeport is the most dangerous place in Connecticut.
  June 18, 2013 - Stamford Advocate
• Remembering Miller Barber as a great player and a singular character
  By Guy YocomAt approximately 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday afternoon, Miller Barber's cell phone rang for the last time. Barber, in hospice at the Silver Stone Care Center in Scottsdale, Ariz., was too ill to answer the call. But his wife, Karen, did. And when she whispered to Miller that Jack Nicklaus was calling for him, Miller motioned for her to hand him the phone. "It was a sweet call," said Miller ...
  June 13, 2013 - GolfDigest.com via Yahoo! Sports

Quotes

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• Nelson Mandela in The Guardian
  I should have let you sleep longer when you told me when you were tired,it said. "I should have let you go to more socials, dates and parties. I should have given you more money, more hugs, more kisses, and I should have whispered in your...
• Didier Drogba in Sportinglife.com
  Mourinho calculated everything - he looked at the match programme and analysed the cards each of his lads had received,Drogba said in his book. "He sometimes whispered to me, 'It would be good for you to get a yellow card today. You would...
• Glenn Ford in Reuters
  When we made love she whispered, 'I wish I could die now, while I'm happy,'Ford wrote on the back of the painting.