What is "whispery"

Usage examples of "whispery".

Still he ran, his breath unlabored yet coming in whispery aspirations from his great lungs.

Suddenly the fiesta lights were switched on, gaudy, glaring, reds and yellows and greens, turning everything into a psychedelic arena, and then at last Halperin heard music, the skreeing bagpipy sound of bamboo flutes, the thump of drums, the whispery, dry rattle of tambourines, the harsh punctuation of little clay whistles.

Ortega banged on the hatch coaming as we climbed aboard and the turbines awoke with a whispery sound.

Soon he was droning it over and over in a whispery, tuneless monotone while the sweat soaked through his shirts and clear mucus ran from his nose to freeze on his upper lip: 'I know we can make it, I know we can, we can work it out, yes we can-can yes we can yes we can .

She played the violin mostly with her fingers, but sometimes she used a mental touch to produce a harmonic, which did not require that the string be pressed against the fingerboard but merely touched at a vibrational node to damp the fundamental tone while allowing the whispery overtone to sound.

Green jungle noises, bird calls, vibraphone notes simulating rain, and a girl singing whispery and frail, complaining to whoever would listen that love was transitory, the world in disarray, everything was so very, very sad.