(v. i.) The sound produced by soughing; a hollow murmur or roaring.
(v. i.) Hence, a vague rumor or flying report.
(v. i.) A cant or whining mode of speaking, especially in preaching or praying.
(v. i.) To whistle or sigh, as the wind.
Example Sentences:
(1) David first sough psychological help at Oxford when, miserably unhappy, he was introduced by his friend Charles Collins to the psychiatrist and Freudian psychoanalyst RD Gillespie.
(2) No commitment has been given to release the much-sough-tafter business case or the contract itself once it is signed.
(3) Evidence for selective extravasation of thoracic duct lymph-borne cells, derived from rats with adjuvant disease, within joints of normal or adjuvant arthritic recipients was sough by adoptive transfer of radiolabeled cells.
(4) It is of the greatest simplicity, and it is sough by asking the subject to follow the finger of the examiner.
Susurrus
Definition:
(n.) The act of whispering; a whisper; a murmur.
Example Sentences:
(1) From this distance – approximately 900 metres – the susurrus of slowly turning blades sounds like a distant country road, minus the intermittent heavy rumble of semitrailers that are a fixture in less isolated rural areas.