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  • 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
  • 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)
  • I resisted the urge to audibly gag.†   (source)
  • "Salaam," she replied in a barely audible voice.†   (source)
  • "Katniss," I said, barely audible.†   (source)
  • "He knows his household pests, all right, it's a wonderful book …… " "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)
  • A fiddle melody was just audible over the rustle of leaves in the night breeze.†   (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)
  • Alby's screams, now distant but still audible, only made it worse.†   (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)
  • They had complete text transcripts of every audible word she'd spoken while clearing the first two gates.†   (source)
  • "Only an echo, I fear," I heard, barely audibly.†   (source)
  • The walkie-talkie was barely audible now over the alarm.†   (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)
  • "Good," Jen's dad said, audibly releasing his breath.†   (source)
  • It was hardly audible.†   (source)
  • She whispered a barely audible, "No."†   (source)
  • There was a faint "okay," just audible over the sound of the rain.†   (source)
  • In a barely audible voice he demanded some food, but there was nothing left.†   (source)
  • Just audible lumps: "It's not much consolation, but you'll probably never have any loss this big again."†   (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)
  • The words were hardly audible.†   (source)
  • Uchendu ground his teeth together audibly.†   (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)
  • My voice is faint, barely audible.†   (source)
  • We're familiar with the script: "Please and thank you," Rebecca says, her voice barely audible.†   (source)
  • His voice was barely audible, something less than a whisper.†   (source)
  • She exhales audibly, relieved that it's nothing serious.†   (source)
  • Their voices grew less and less audible, drowned out by the crackling of dried leaves beneath their feet.†   (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)
  • His voice was weak, barely audible.†   (source)
  • MARY WARREN, hardly audible: Aye.†   (source)
  • It was barely audible over the crowd, but it was there.†   (source)
  • "Dowds sike dim," I say, my words barely audible thanks to the grip she still has on my face.†   (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)
  • Outside, he began a long bout of violent sneezing punctuated by curses, all clearly audible inside the shed.†   (source)
  • There was another groan, low and fuzzy, but perfectly audible this time.†   (source)
  • His voice barely audible, Jacob said, "Please don't tell anyone."†   (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)
  • Her admiration for the deceased man's form, her identification with the grieving wife, and her audible sob all suggest a symbolic marriage.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • It is tastefully black and unadorned, not a news crew-though another helicopter, an oldfashioned audible one, brightly festooned with up-to. the-minute logos, is thumping and whacking its way across White Columns airspace at this very moment, goosing the plantations with its own spotlight, hoping to be the first to obtain this major scoop: a pizza was delivered late tonight, film at eleven.†   (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 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)
  • Sometimes audible to other people.†   (source)
  • The noise of the birds was audible now, a raucous cawing, almost like high-pitched laugher.†   (source)
  • The sound of footsteps in the hallway was audible now, striking pangs of fear into her chest.†   (source)
  • There was an audible groan from the audience.†   (source)
  • There was a growling noise in the east, scarcely audible at first, then growing stronger and stronger: Soviet artillery.†   (source)
  • The ground shakes when buses roar by, and his strings are barely audible in the orchestra of horns, trucks and sirens.†   (source)
  • It made no audible sound as it shattered into shards of ice, melting in my hand.†   (source)
  • The word was barely audible.†   (source)
  • Only a faint mechanical rumble issued from it, becoming more audible as the Duke opened his door.†   (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)
  • Ruth's voice was hardly audible.†   (source)
  • When Lori brought my new dog out from the back of the house, I gasped audibly.†   (source)
  • He thought about it often in his darkened cell, and the smallest details were large for him and every word was audible.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • It simply hung now below the sky, an audible reminder of the existence of agony.†   (source)
  • It's a look that does everything but audibly hiss.†   (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)
  • Her voice was barely audible.†   (source)
  • Many minutes passed before we allowed ourselves to sigh audibly.†   (source)
  • De Wet's voice, which was muted before, was now barely audible.†   (source)
  • The earl dusted himself off as the others snickered audibly.†   (source)
  • Before long, they're meeting in the center with an audible slap.†   (source)
  • It went, all right, with an audible tear.†   (source)
  • The anguish in her voice was audible.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • "Please stop and let me out here," said Johnnie, in a scarcely audible voice.†   (source)
  • Several gasps could be heard from around the table along with one prolonged, audible squeal of glee.†   (source)
  • Miro's shouts were audible now and he was pounding on the door.†   (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)
  • Barely audible, she told us that almost none of the prostitutes in Sonagachi came with aspirations of becoming a sex worker.†   (source)
  • Ann is so stunned, she holds her hand to the flame a second too long, pulling it back with an audible gasp.†   (source)
  • I whisper, and it's barely audible because I don't care if he locked the door and no one's around.†   (source)
  • Near the end of the film someone cleared his throat quite audibly.†   (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)
  • He mumbled something barely audible.†   (source)
  • And the sound of my finger brushing your coat was quite audible.†   (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)
  • There was another audible gasp from the bleachers, followed by the buzz of whispering moving down the rows.†   (source)
  • Listen on most nights and a few pops are audible.†   (source)
  • "We waited a long time in the cold," Leon was barely audible, "there was no traffic.†   (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)
  • Tom sighed audibly and walked back to the waiting chairs.†   (source)
  • Cesar's voice was barely audible from screaming, so he softly whispered, "One day we'll talk about it."†   (source)
  • The last sentence was spoken with audible distaste.†   (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)
  • Calmly he wiped the blood from his mouth with the back of his hand while she stood rigid, her breathing fast and audible.†   (source)
  • My father's voice was barely audible.†   (source)
  • Then in a tone barely audible, Mother whispered, "You don't know how fortunate you were.†   (source)
  • Her spine stiffens and her heart is audible deep inside her ears.†   (source)
  • Then they did it with a click that was almost audible.†   (source)
  • On the screen labeled AUDIBLE, use the arrows and scroll to Greek.†   (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)
  • He lowers his voice to a barely audible whisper.†   (source)
  • Eddie's voice was barely audible.†   (source)
  • The sound seemed to travel up her spine before it broke into an audible growl.†   (source)
  • Ready to spit and scratch even though her heart was pounding hard enough to be almost 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)
  • Bo muttered in a trembling, barely audible voice, nervously searching the room for allies.†   (source)
  • If I'm alone, my heartfelt thank-you is often an audible one.†   (source)
  • Then she spoke a barely audible goodbye.†   (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)
  • Mrs. Cook got a blanket and threw it over her, wondering audibly what was wrong with Minty.†   (source)
  • Abby gave an audible sigh.†   (source)
  • A deep, softly sonorous cooing sound at the end of each expiration, audible to bystanders.†   (source)
  • He was breathing slowly and deeply, audibly; his eyes were blinking.†   (source)
  • "Guilty:' came the answer, barely audible.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • There was an audible rush of escaping air.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Back on the road no one was really talking, just listening to the barely audible music on the radio.†   (source)
  • Janis tendered the suggestion; the relief was almost audible.†   (source)
  • Like drums … By the end of the next speech, the band is faintly audible.†   (source)
  • Lavinia began to sniffle, audibly.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Oh, for God's sake," Leamas muttered 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)
  • She sniffed audibly.†   (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
  • Kingsley Shacklebolt's deep voice was audible even over the surrounding chatter.†   (source)
  • The irritation was audible in the man's voice.†   (source)
  • He speaks now in a tired, barely audible voice.†   (source)
  • They all did so, Auntie Muriel grumbling audibly; he waved his wand again.†   (source)
  • "My fault," Minho muttered, barely audible.†   (source)
  • The voice that replied was frail, barely audible.†   (source)
  • If an angel choir is also audible, so much the better.†   (source)
  • As the two men crossed the grassy rise, the beating of helicopter blades became audible to the west.†   (source)
  • The sound was muffled through the heavy wooden door, but audible.†   (source)
  • She said it audibly now, to the orange-lit room.†   (source)
  • The old man's voice was barely audible now.†   (source)
  • Like any librarian in Reality, this daemon can move around without audible footfalls.†   (source)
  • "I'm fine," I say with a very audible amount of annoyance in my response.†   (source)
  • O'Dell worried, looking over at our audience, which was audibly grumbling about the delay.†   (source)
  • Sandor Clegane dropped his visor with an audible clang and took up his position.†   (source)
  • Somewhere inside the cathedral a distant rumbling thump was audible.†   (source)
  • He dropped his voice until it was just audible.†   (source)
  • There was an audible reaction to his presence.†   (source)
  • My teeth mashed together with an audible grinding sound.†   (source)
  • Outside the doors, the faint roar of human chaos was now audible.†   (source)
  • It was Harry's turn for an elbow in the ribs; he'd let out an audible gasp.†   (source)
  • In a barely audible voice, he replied: "That is a pity, a very great pity."†   (source)
  • Every time he touched me, in even the most casual way, my heart had an audible reaction.†   (source)
  • Hobie exhaled audibly; he looked exasperated.†   (source)
  • She gave a few quick, audible gasps and crossed her arms.†   (source)
  • The sound of shattering glass was barely audible over the roar of the helicopter behind them.†   (source)
  • He looked away, drawing in a long audible breath that made his shoulders rise then fall.†   (source)
  • It was the first word uttered in many hours and was barely audible over the roar of the river.†   (source)
  • Move your flesh around, breathe audibly.†   (source)
  • There were audible sighs of relief throughout the room.†   (source)
  • That great shuttles of souls might fly about, faded but audible if you listen closely enough?†   (source)
  • Then Madame said, barely audibly: "Poor creatures.†   (source)
  • Hagrid,' she said in a whisper barely audible over the sound of the sleeping creature, 'who is he?†   (source)
  • Caroline was silent for a while, took an audible drink of something, no doubt her coffee.†   (source)
  • The wind was audible now, creaking in the high bare branches.†   (source)
  • There were audible groans from the audience.†   (source)
  • Their conversation was only audible now and then.†   (source)
  • "We need to find Farley," I whisper in Maven's ear, barely audible to myself.†   (source)
  • "Yes," she says, in a voice that is slow and languid, but clearly audible.†   (source)
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