What is "soughing"

Usage examples of "soughing".

He bent over and pressed his feverish lips to hers, hard enough that he could feel her bared teeth, the life soughing out of her with each beat of her heart.

The world he awoke to each morning was like smoke, a dream through which he drifted, always aware of the dead, of their dark eyes, of their breath soughing through the trees of his garden.

It was an eerie kind of sound, like the midnight wind soughing through a graveyard, but curiously not an unpleasant one for all that.

They listened to the soughing of the wind, but there was scant comfort in the sound.

They ascended the alloy ladder, back to the soughing forest that seemed light-years from the throbbing machinery below.

A sound from deep inside him, he was certain, familiar as the soughing breath of his father kept in an adjacent place in his memory.

Besides the shifting of feet and the occasional protest of a horse held on too tight a rein, there was no sound except for a soughing whisper that might be the surf.

Over the loud soughing of his own breath and the howl of the wind, he picked up another sound.

Through the absolute silence around there came the sound as of a gentle flutter, the current of cold air, mayhap, sighing through the ill-fitting shutters, or the soft, weird soughing made by unseen things.

The silence became all the more marked after a while, because the rain ceased its monotonous pattering and the soughing of the wind was stilled.

She could hear nothing but the pulse of her own blood soughing in her ears.

Galen made the name sound like the soughing of a soft breeze in the forest.

Shaking his head to clear it of confusion, he looked around, trying to find the reason, any reason, any explanation, for it all, but only the soft soughing of the wind and the miserable sound of a mourning dove answered his silent questions.

For a moment there was only the stillness and the boy watching, the soft soughing of the wind in the trees across the water, and the faint, lulling call of pigeons in the wood.

There was a sigh like the soughing of the wind, then Tsu Ma was surrounded.