barest whisper
Frequency: 5.80.5 per million words
used to describe the quietest possible sound or the slightest rumor
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Examples (10)
- He spoke in the barest whisper, so I had to lean in to hear him.
- The only sound in the tomb was the barest whisper of the wind.
- She could only manage the barest whisper after losing her voice.
- Not even the barest whisper of a complaint was heard from the stoic soldiers.
- The stock market reacted to the barest whisper of a potential merger.
- There has not been the barest whisper of any wrongdoing from the committee.
- If the barest whisper of this secret gets out, our plan will fail.
- The detective was searching for even the barest whisper of a clue.
- In the dead of night, the barest whisper can sound like a shout.
- The authoritarian government suppressed the barest whisper of opposition.