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  • The signal for the roll call was barely audible through the double-paned, frostblurred windows.   (source)
    audible = capable of being heard
  • On the last night of Aunt Emily's stay, there is a barely audible whispering that keeps me awake wondering late into the night.   (source)
  • "She's my mother," he said in a scarcely audible voice.
    The nurse glanced at him with startled, horrified eyes; then quickly looked away.   (source)
  • She is calling barely audibly.   (source)
    audibly = loud enough to be heard
  • The stout lady occasionally turned her head squarely around and surveyed Anne through her eyeglasses until Anne, acutely sensitive of being so scrutinized, felt that she must scream aloud; and the white-lace girl kept talking audibly to her next neighbor about the "country bumpkins" and "rustic belles" in the audience, languidly anticipating "such fun" from the displays of local talent on the program.   (source)
    audibly = capable of being heard
  • He wears a short jacket and brilliantly polished boots which squeak audibly.   (source)
    audibly = in a manner that can be heard
  • some of the other birds tittered audibly.   (source)
    audibly = in a manner that could be heard
  • Papa looked ready to tear his own hair out by that stage, but his voice became a barely audible whisper.†   (source)
  • "Katniss," I said, barely audible.†   (source)
  • "Salaam," she replied in a barely audible voice.†   (source)
  • I resisted the urge to audibly gag.†   (source)
  • They had complete text transcripts of every audible word she'd spoken while clearing the first two gates.†   (source)
  • "Mum fancies him," said Fred, in a very audible whisper.†   (source)
  • "God, he was a smart kid," the old man rasps in a barely audible voice.†   (source)
  • It was a whisper at first: hushed, barely audible.†   (source)
  • Grace Wexler dismissed the next heir with an audible tongue click.†   (source)
  • While Almondine pondered this, a sound reached her ears—a whispery rasp, barely audible, even to her.†   (source)
  • He lets out an audible sigh.†   (source)
  • Outside the windows, snow swept by in the muted half-light, the pressure of the wind against the glass the only thing audible, a dull thudding with each squall of flakes.†   (source)
  • I tell you, Sasha, there was an audible gasp when she appeared.†   (source)
  • It was meek, barely audible, and very sad.†   (source)
  • I'm fine, just a little sick," Wes yelled out, but his voice was barely audible through the pillow pressed tightly against his face.†   (source)
  • "Only an echo, I fear," I heard, barely audibly.†   (source)
  • He became contentious and started making comments that were audible to the judge.†   (source)
  • Outside, the rain beat on the windowpanes, just audible over the clatter of plates and cutlery.†   (source)
  • The walkie-talkie was barely audible now over the alarm.†   (source)
  • Alby's screams, now distant but still audible, only made it worse.†   (source)
  • "Good," Jen's dad said, audibly releasing his breath.†   (source)
  • He thought about it often in his darkened cell, and the smallest details were large for him and every word was audible.†   (source)
  • Just audible lumps: "It's not much consolation, but you'll probably never have any loss this big again."†   (source)
  • As he watched the screen, and sometimes Mae's fingers on the keyboard, his chin got ever-closer to her shoulder, his breath light but audible, his smell, a simple one of soap and banana shampoo, coming to her on the winds of his tiny exhalations.†   (source)
  • There was a faint "okay," just audible over the sound of the rain.†   (source)
  • "Dowds sike dim," I say, my words barely audible thanks to the grip she still has on my face.†   (source)
  • His voice was barely audible, something less than a whisper.†   (source)
  • His head hit the ground with an audible crack that made the crowd gasp, but it was just the golden antler on his helm.†   (source)
  • My voice is faint, barely audible.†   (source)
  • Uchendu ground his teeth together audibly.†   (source)
  • Though she had not turned, or moved at all, it was clear that something was changing in Lola, a warmth rising from her skin and a sound of dry swallowing, a heaving convulsion of muscle in her throat that was audible as a series of sinewy clicks.†   (source)
  • Their voices grew less and less audible, drowned out by the crackling of dried leaves beneath their feet.†   (source)
  • Sometimes audible to other people.†   (source)
  • MARY WARREN, hardly audible: Aye.†   (source)
  • It was barely audible over the crowd, but it was there.†   (source)
  • She whispered a barely audible, "No."†   (source)
  • I said, and the crackle of panic was plainly audible in my voice.†   (source)
  • His voice is hardly audible above the wind—so low it's barely a whisper.†   (source)
  • Now I was certain, though, and lowering my magazine I made a heavy sighing sound that would be clearly audible.†   (source)
  • In the background, just audible, a woman's voice was half singing, half chanting, but the lyrics seemed to be in a foreign tongue.†   (source)
  • Though muffled, his voice was audible: "If you want to force her into a confrontation she's ill-equipped to handle, all I can say is, May the spirit of Issa help anyone who should fall under your people's care.†   (source)
  • In a barely audible voice he demanded some food, but there was nothing left.†   (source)
  • His voice was weak, barely audible.†   (source)
  • When Lori brought my new dog out from the back of the house, I gasped audibly.†   (source)
  • There was a growling noise in the east, scarcely audible at first, then growing stronger and stronger: Soviet artillery.†   (source)
  • She exhales audibly, relieved that it's nothing serious.†   (source)
  • There was an audible groan from the audience.†   (source)
  • Her admiration for the deceased man's form, her identification with the grieving wife, and her audible sob all suggest a symbolic marriage.†   (source)
  • The ground shakes when buses roar by, and his strings are barely audible in the orchestra of horns, trucks and sirens.†   (source)
  • The vigil at the temple continued, the priests' prayers audible on the plaza as an intermittent shushing murmur.†   (source)
  • The noise of the birds was audible now, a raucous cawing, almost like high-pitched laugher.†   (source)
  • There was another audible gasp from the bleachers, followed by the buzz of whispering moving down the rows.†   (source)
  • Every night Betsie or I would remove the stair tread and crouch over the radio, the volume barely audible, while the other one thumped the piano in Tante Jans's room as hard as she could, to hear the news from England.†   (source)
  • There was another groan, low and fuzzy, but perfectly audible this time.†   (source)
  • And the sound of my finger brushing your coat was quite audible.†   (source)
  • The sound of footsteps in the hallway was audible now, striking pangs of fear into her chest.†   (source)
  • Every question Simpson asked elicited a barely audible mumble.†   (source)
  • I, however, had spend endless nights riding shotgun, listening to one of her many mix tapes of lost love/done me wrong/screw you songs and watching scenery rush by, her hiccuping sobs just barely audible under the music and the sound of the wind coming through my window.†   (source)
  • It is tastefully black and unadorned, not a news crew-though another helicopter, an oldfashioned audible one, brightly festooned with up-to.†   (source)
  • There was a brief silence and she made a superhuman effort to remember the pine forest and Miguel's love, but her ideas got tangled up and she no longer knew if she was dreaming or where this stench of sweat, excrement, blood, and urine was coming from, or the radio announcer describing some Finnish goals that had nothing to do with her in the middle of other, nearer, more clearly audible shouts.†   (source)
  • It made no audible sound as it shattered into shards of ice, melting in my hand.†   (source)
  • In a voice that was barely audible, she choked back her own grief and said, "We know that you're a man of God, and that the Lord has all these things in His hands.†   (source)
  • One of them was a woman in her forties who during the Q and A had taken the proffered microphone and then lowered her voice to a barely audible whisper.†   (source)
  • "We waited a long time in the cold," Leon was barely audible, "there was no traffic.†   (source)
  • Coach Meyer let me make checks at the line and call audibles and didn't really restrict me when we were winning; he just let me go ahead and play.†   (source)
  • Her voice was barely audible.†   (source)
  • Only a faint mechanical rumble issued from it, becoming more audible as the Duke opened his door.†   (source)
  • Simon and Garfunkle on my CD player, barely audible over the wind whistling through the trees and the hard flecks of snow snapping against the glass.†   (source)
  • It's a look that does everything but audibly hiss.†   (source)
  • We're familiar with the script: "Please and thank you," Rebecca says, her voice barely audible.†   (source)
  • This had once been a quiet road, cars audible for miles before they came into sight, and usually it was a familiar face behind the windshield, the car slowing, stopping, and a door swinging open to let him in.†   (source)
  • When the bells rang again, this time signaling lights-out across the camp, there was an audible groan, loud enough to get Liam chuckling.†   (source)
  • It wasn't until a second noise became audible in the pulse of the powerful sirens that we thought to effect a pause in our little episode of decorous hysteria.†   (source)
  • It went, all right, with an audible tear.†   (source)
  • In barely audible Spanish, as if secret microphones or informers were all about, he whispered to his wife, "You will permit her to read that?"†   (source)
  • Barely audible, she told us that almost none of the prostitutes in Sonagachi came with aspirations of becoming a sex worker.†   (source)
  • At first the whisper was so soft I couldn't hear it, but as Loren drank the last drop of Chris's blood the words became audible as well as visible.†   (source)
  • It would make him listen carefully for the soft, rumbling murmur of mitral stenosis, a devilish murmur which, as he said, "you'll only hear if you know it's there," and then it was only audible with the bell of the stethoscope lightly applied over the apex of the heart after exercise.†   (source)
  • The voice of the officiating inmate had just become audible.†   (source)
  • After Hickock's dismissal, Nye and Church crossed the corridor, and looking through the one-way observation window set in the door of the interrogation room, watched the questioning of Perry Smith-a scene visible though not audible.†   (source)
  • Several gasps could be heard from around the table along with one prolonged, audible squeal of glee.†   (source)
  • It simply hung now below the sky, an audible reminder of the existence of agony.†   (source)
  • The earl dusted himself off as the others snickered audibly.†   (source)
  • Listen on most nights and a few pops are audible.†   (source)
  • "Please stop and let me out here," said Johnnie, in a scarcely audible voice.†   (source)
  • Miro's shouts were audible now and he was pounding on the door.†   (source)
  • Before long, they're meeting in the center with an audible slap.†   (source)
  • Within minutes an argument ensued in the living area that was as audible to me as if the separating walls were muslin sheets.†   (source)
  • Farmer was so sick for a time that he could hardly make his voice audible.†   (source)
  • On the screen labeled AUDIBLE, use the arrows and scroll to Greek.†   (source)
  • Many minutes passed before we allowed ourselves to sigh audibly.†   (source)
  • Ann is so stunned, she holds her hand to the flame a second too long, pulling it back with an audible gasp.†   (source)
  • The apartment where she was living was in a neighborhood where gunfire was audible every day—much scarier than the Danbury shooting range.†   (source)
  • He mumbled something barely audible.†   (source)
  • He lowers his voice to a barely audible whisper.†   (source)
  • Near the end of the film someone cleared his throat quite audibly.†   (source)
  • My father's voice was barely audible.†   (source)
  • Calmly he wiped the blood from his mouth with the back of his hand while she stood rigid, her breathing fast and audible.†   (source)
  • Tom sighed audibly and walked back to the waiting chairs.†   (source)
  • His voice barely audible, Jacob said, "Please don't tell anyone."†   (source)
  • The word was barely audible.†   (source)
  • "Fashion leaders are concentrated among young women of high gregariousness," Labov says, calling the linguistic changes he has studied "the audible equivalent of the visual effects of fashion."†   (source)
  • And now as I struggled through the lines of people a new world of possibility suggested itself to me faintly, like a small voice that was barely audible in the roar of city sounds.†   (source)
  • "Nothing funny at all has happened to me during the past fifteen minutes," she answered in a barely audible monotone.†   (source)
  • De Wet's voice, which was muted before, was now barely audible.†   (source)
  • Ready to spit and scratch even though her heart was pounding hard enough to be almost audible.†   (source)
  • Cesar's voice was barely audible from screaming, so he softly whispered, "One day we'll talk about it."†   (source)
  • Her spine stiffens and her heart is audible deep inside her ears.†   (source)
  • The sound seemed to travel up her spine before it broke into an audible growl.†   (source)
  • The thunder was barely audible and the wind had come up just enough to shriek a little in the cracks of the windows.†   (source)
  • Then in a tone barely audible, Mother whispered, "You don't know how fortunate you were.†   (source)
  • Eddie's voice was barely audible.†   (source)
  • If I'm alone, my heartfelt thank-you is often an audible one.†   (source)
  • Outside, he began a long bout of violent sneezing punctuated by curses, all clearly audible inside the shed.†   (source)
  • Then they did it with a click that was almost audible.†   (source)
  • I whisper, and it's barely audible because I don't care if he locked the door and no one's around.†   (source)
  • A deep, softly sonorous cooing sound at the end of each expiration, audible to bystanders.†   (source)
  • Nor would Dr. Mansour omit to explain in a clear and audible voice the complications that would follow if the patient were to take that medication, which was known to totally destroy the liver.†   (source)
  • Janis tendered the suggestion; the relief was almost audible.†   (source)
  • Guilty:' came the answer, barely audible.†   (source)
  • Then, suddenly, with one of her most audible sighs, she stood up and, grim and duty-bound, moved into the washstand area Zooey had vacated.†   (source)
  • He was breathing slowly and deeply, audibly; his eyes were blinking.†   (source)
  • Most of them were near the top of the audible range so it was possible that there were some out of human audibility he was missing.†   (source)
  • Then she spoke a barely audible goodbye.†   (source)
  • Abby gave an audible sigh.†   (source)
  • There was an audible sigh of relief as we passed them, only to be replaced by another burst of cries as we approached the next cell.†   (source)
  • Back on the road no one was really talking, just listening to the barely audible music on the radio.†   (source)
  • There was an audible rush of escaping air.†   (source)
  • Like drums ...By the end of the next speech, the band is faintly audible.†   (source)
  • Bo muttered in a trembling, barely audible voice, nervously searching the room for allies.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Cook got a blanket and threw it over her, wondering audibly what was wrong with Minty.†   (source)
  • She sniffed audibly.†   (source)
  • Oh, for God's sake," Leamas muttered audibly.†   (source)
  • There had been a rhythmic vibration in the ground audible through the paws, so that ears swung and nose wrinkled, but that had stopped.†   (source)
  • He inserted another coin and pulled the lever once more, causing several of those nearer to the end of the line to grumble audibly, remarking to the effect that that was his seventh coin, it was a warm day, there were other people waiting to get some praying done and why did he not go inside and render such a large donation directly to the priests?†   (source)
  • Her back was to me and for a moment I could tell she was unaware of my presence as she stroked the lustrous blond tresses with a sizzling sound, barely audible on the noontime stillness.†   (source)
  • ANNIE'S voice is audible, very patient, and worn; it has been saying this for a long time.†   (source)
  • Occasionally he caught complex rhythmical patterns racing up and down through the audible spectrum, to vanish at the upper or lower edge of hearing.†   (source)
  • Lavinia began to sniffle, audibly.†   (source)
  • Everything in the world becomes more visible and more audible.†   (source)
  • An auto engine bore behind the edge of audibility the furious expletives of its incompetence.†   (source)
  • Hathaway's voice was barely audible.†   (source)
  • Lenina did her best to stop the ears of her mind; but every now and then a phrase would insist on becoming audible.   (source)
    audible = capable of being heard
  • Had she not already appeared in the Feelytone News–visibly, audibly and tactually appeared to countless millions all over the planet?   (source)
  • Realizing that the elements of the comedy were implied in the scene, Dexter several times began to laugh, but each time restrained the laugh before it reached audibility.   (source)
    audibility = a loudness capable of being heard
  • Then aside to Marilla in an audible whisper, "There wasn't anything startling in that, was there, Marilla?"   (source)
    audible = capable of being heard
  • The name came out this time, but barely audible, and distorted by my armor.†   (source)
  • The last sentence was spoken with audible distaste.†   (source)
  • Another retch forced me to close my eyes and the thing came all the way free with an audible plop into the container.†   (source)
  • Kingsley Shacklebolt's deep voice was audible even over the surrounding chatter.†   (source)
  • As the two men crossed the grassy rise, the beating of helicopter blades became audible to the west.†   (source)
  • Outside her apartment, the sound of traffic was clearly audible.†   (source)
  • They all did so, Auntie Muriel grumbling audibly; he waved his wand again.†   (source)
  • I passed Paisley Fisher, noticing that he audibly gulped as I stopped.†   (source)
  • If an angel choir is also audible, so much the better.†   (source)
  • The irritation was audible in the man's voice.†   (source)
  • "My fault," Minho muttered, barely audible.†   (source)
  • The voice that replied was frail, barely audible.†   (source)
  • He speaks now in a tired, barely audible voice.†   (source)
  • The old man's voice was barely audible now.†   (source)
  • The crowd sounds are barely audible through the thick walls of the tomb.†   (source)
  • In a barely audible voice, he replied: "That is a pity, a very great pity."†   (source)
  • My heart thudded audibly against my ribs, and my breath seemed to get stuck in my throat.†   (source)
  • Caroline was silent for a while, took an audible drink of something, no doubt her coffee.†   (source)
  • The class gave an audible sigh as it turned, as one, to page nineteen.†   (source)
  • With an audible pop, her shoulder snaps back into place.†   (source)
  • A fiddle melody was just audible over the rustle of leaves in the night breeze.†   (source)
  • A lot of our Louvre investigation tonight would have been audible if someone had been interested.†   (source)
  • My teeth mashed together with an audible grinding sound.†   (source)
  • Three crows are flying overhead, their wings black flames, their words almost audible.†   (source)
  • With my fist I knocked against the deck and made a dull but clearly audible clang.†   (source)
  • The sound was muffled through the heavy wooden door, but audible.†   (source)
  • "I'm fine," I say with a very audible amount of annoyance in my response.†   (source)
  • It was Harry's turn for an elbow in the ribs; he'd let out an audible gasp.†   (source)
  • "Kid, you sure don't," the pink-haired club girl said audibly at the next table.†   (source)
  • Like any librarian in Reality, this daemon can move around without audible footfalls.†   (source)
  • Then Madame said, barely audibly: "Poor creatures.†   (source)
  • He dropped his voice until it was just audible.†   (source)
  • "Yes," she says, in a voice that is slow and languid, but clearly audible.†   (source)
  • With an audible groan, I scrambled up to be sick again.†   (source)
  • Every time he touched me, in even the most casual way, my heart had an audible reaction.†   (source)
  • Sandor Clegane dropped his visor with an audible clang and took up his position.†   (source)
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