Sentence examples for modest murmur from inspiring English sources
With a modest murmur and half a crinkled grin, he replies, "I had a harmonica once".
A beginning murmur of modest promises; shrugged evasive responses to awkward questions; emphatic responses to sympathetic questions, signalled by forceful gestures; the whole decorated by self-deprecating family humor — in this case, Dad jokes and husband jokes on the Obama model, clearly indicated by bright, sheepish gestures toward the candidate's spouse.
Receiving a fact sheet on heart murmurs had a modest impact on parental concerns, but the overall anxiety level was not significantly reduced.
Receiving a fact sheet about heart murmurs did not significantly reduce parental anxiety levels, but had a modest effect on concerns for the consequences of a heart murmur.
It's a twenty-minute update murmured in your ear by a well-informed, sensitive, funny, modest friend the kind of person who has as many questions as answers?
Applause, an excited murmur.
