Sentence examples for got whispers from inspiring English sources

They kept asking, and instead of the clear terms outlined in the now congressionally demanded Army Field Manual parameters they got whispers - not codified - but spread by word of mouth, by innuendo, by seeing that those who tortured and brutalised prisoners got promoted and those who played by Geneva or other such standard were pushed out.

But we stop them up with concrete and build over them, and whatever it is they wanted to say gets whispered down empty alleys and turns into wind.

Paul Howcroft, managing director of fancydressball.co.uk, insists that his 'naughtiest ever Christmas jumper' slogans are "the sort of things that get whispered in private conversations around the office, and the idea is to combat this stereotypical gossipy work-culture with humour".

The idea is simple: A message starts at one end of the chain, and it gets whispered -- just once -- to the next player.

If painting is a monologue, Bruce Helander's collages are a chattering classroom, where literary legends and academic facts get whispered in the same breath as irreverent jokes and the latest gossip.

The comedian Helen Austin once said to me: "If the audience aren't listening to you, instead of getting louder, start whispering".

Awed by the majestic beauty, passengers would get quiet, start whispering and walk around on their tip-toes.

But she got hurt whispering.

She said schools were rushing to allow pupils to change their names, uniforms and gender pronouns as soon as they "got a whisper that a child might be querying their identity" and this was not in every child's best interests.

Continue reading "Dramatic athletics - but Britain beware" Up in the commentary box, we got a whisper that something might be wrong with Liu Xiang five minutes before the hurdles heats were due to start.

Just getting a whisper of these whispers is good enough.