soughing

IPA: sˈʌfɪŋ

Examples of "soughing" in Sentences

The soughing of the Battenkill sparked a language more inspired than mine.
Just then a faint "soughing" sound among the branches suggested another idea to Griselda.
He looks at his tremulous, bleeding hands, then into the vacant eyes of the soughing pig.
It's the soughing of wind in the giant old trees behind our house, the arresting bird calls, the distant hoot of a train.
Then, a sudden gust drew my attention upwards to the branches bending and soughing in the wind -- the most beautiful ballet I could imagine.
A stiff north-westerly wind blew bracingly in from the grey and ochre ocean, soughing noisily through a field of high green corn stalks, bending the inland ash and thorn and willow, scraping the short turf and the bare headlands.
One of the guests at our later, different dance, in Corgarff Castle, must have remembered this, for suddenly there was a sort of "soughing" of the song, then a singing of it, and it was positively roared out by the assembly when the music stopped and the dance ended.