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Examples of soughing
soughing
The only sound is the soughing of the branches, unless the trees are being felled, when all is pandemonium.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Hemlocks and aspens soughing in the merest breeze.
From the sacbee.com
Soon the sound of traffic fades from consciousness, and we move back into a world of bleats and birdsong, and soughing wind.
From the post-gazette.com
At night, in ominous old Thornfield Hall, the shutters clatter threateningly, and a soughing wind slips through the cracks like a ghost's vengeful moaning.
From the time.com
- Make a murmuring sound; "the water was purling"
- (soughing) murmurous: characterized by soft sounds; "a murmurous brook"; "a soughing wind in the pines"; "a slow sad susurrous rustle like the wind fingering the pines"- R.P.Warren
- A sough is an underground channel for draining water out of a mine. Its ability to drain a mine depends on the bottom of the mine being higher than a neighbouring valley. If the mine sump is lower, water must be pumped up to the sough.
- (Soughing) Breathy voice (also called murmured voice, soughing, or susurration) is a phonation in which the vocal cords vibrate, as they do in normal (modal) voicing, but are held further apart, so that a larger volume of air escapes between them. This produces an audible noise. ...
- Sound dying on the ear, or a continued sound, like the noise of a high wind.
- A mine drainage level; sometimes forms the entrance to a mine or cave.
- A drainage tunnel for canal tunnel construction or mine workings. Pronounced suff.
