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Answer for the clue "Silky sound ", 6 letters:
rustle
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Word definitions for rustle in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rustle \Rus"tle\, v. t. To cause to rustle; as, the wind rustles the leaves.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. verb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ A light breeze rustled the treetops. ▪ Her taffeta dress rustles as she moves past. ▪ Leaves rustled in the summer breeze. ▪ The tissue paper rustled in the silence as she unwrapped the gift. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ ...
Usage examples of rustle.
She imagined the smell of the rain forest and the chatter of monkeys, the rustle of agoutis, the slither of anacondas, the screech of macaws.
Only the rustle of creatures alongshore and the noise of crickets or an occasional frog could be heard.
Thence snowy Altels and the giant Blumlisalp flashed it south along the crowding peaks and down among the Italian chestnut woods, who next sent it coursing over the rustling waves of the Adriatic and mixed it everywhere with the Mediterranean foam.
Besides the rustling of the gas cells there was the creaking of the aluminium framework along which he walked and the musical cries of thousands of steel bracing wires.
It was very hot, but the afternoon airs were strong enough to lift the British ensign out of its heavy folds and to rustle the graceful fronds of the areca palms.
Utter silence followed this pronouncement, such that even far across the cathedral square, the rustle of parchment could be heard as the papal chaplain rolled up his scroll, turning away to converse quietly with two waiting prelates as a belated murmur of conversation rippled through the crowd.
Bill Bly was the hero of the rodeo world and Deke Murphy was an unknown, a hard-faced youngster who had dropped off a freight train and rustled a job handling stock for the rodeo.
At the end of about an hour he heard a rustling, peeped out quickly, and caught sight of Boule de Suif, looking more rotund than ever in a dressing-gown of blue cashmere trimmed with white lace.
I stood there a long time, one foot upon the coping and my chin upon my hand, noting the beauty of the ruined town and wondering how such a feeble race as that which lay about, breakfasting in the limpid sunshine, could have come by a city like this, or kept even the ruins of its walls and buildings from the covetousness of others, until presently there was a rustle of primrose garments and my friend of the day before stood by me.
The undergrowth buzzed with insects, and with slight crinkling and rustling noises.
A horrifying shriek and the rustle of something moving quickly out of the jungle stopped Byrt short.
The faint and frail Cathedral chimes Spake time in music, and we heard The chafers rustling in the limes.
Jenna heard the call of the ancient oaks, the green life in the most ancient and lost hollows of Thall Coill, a compelling whisper that rustled the leaves above them, that caused the oaks to bend down with many-limbed branches, that hushed the call of the mage-lights nearly invisible under the canopy of the forest.
The cooing, rustling, struggling load dragged beside him, snagging on the old flooring- He could feel heat on his bare legs.
His belly scraped the floor as he wriggled along with his cooing, rustling load- His eyes were running tears, and even if there had been light he would have been blind.