[
UK
/mˌɜːmjʊɹˈeɪʃən/
]
NOUN
- a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech
How To Use murmuration In A Sentence
- The volume of nursery-squealing was like flocking starlings; it was a mass table-hop murmuration — with nothing to eat. Times, Sunday Times
- The volume of nursery-squealing was like flocking starlings; it was a mass table-hop murmuration — with nothing to eat. Times, Sunday Times
- The volume of nursery-squealing was like flocking starlings; it was a mass table-hop murmuration — with nothing to eat. Times, Sunday Times
- Tight as any herring shoal or starling murmuration, they darted this way and that before melting into the naked woods. Times, Sunday Times
- New shoals arrived to join the murmuration forming high above our heads. Times, Sunday Times
- Many of these, including tiding of magpies, murmuration of starlings, unkindness of ravens, and exaltation of larks, are poetic inventions that one can trace back to the fifteenth century.
- Once a murmuration gets this large, the best way to get rid of them is through a major concerted effort, as officials were doing Monday evening, he said.
- It's was like watching a murmuration of starlings — how do they not hit each other? Times, Sunday Times
- These displays, known as murmurations, are a frequently observed but little understood phenomenon and can involve up to 3 million birds at a time; a vast squadron of cackling artists picking out geometric symphonies led on by forces we can't even begin to understand.
- I mentioned to Bruce that his photo got the old gears turning and he responded by telling me about the " murmurations’ he was watching from his living room in the sky.