whispered

The hum of the average refrigerator is about 50 decibels, and a whispered conversation is about 20 decibels.

At the end of his prayer, the grand mufti whispered aloud: “May God accept it.”

Later, he taught her how to smoke, and still later, they whispered of politics, and fears and hopes for their futures.

Her mother warned her that the birds at school could hear her when she whispered, that her thoughts were never hers alone.

She smiled and whispered, "Are you the girl who was here on Sunday, ringing the bell?"

But on the Nation, these are the kinds of stories only whispered behind closed doors.

But first he held a whispered colloquy with the Princess, whom he entreated, or persuaded, to re-enter her gorgeous vehicle.

"Mind what I told you, Henery," he whispered very loud, glaring at Mr. Holmes.

Garnache had been all eyes for some furtive sign, some whispered word; but he had surprised neither.

I drew back from the rim of Writing-On-the-Stone, that set of whispered phrases echoing in my ears.

As Ernest approached, the sound of whispered words caught his ear.