bruit

Exceptions: Your doctor hears a swishing sound, called a bruit, with a stethoscope, or you have had a stroke or mini-stroke.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2009

Adding to the bruit of Clemens' "discov ery" was the inclusion in the Carnegie International last fortnight of his largest group painting, Water Music, which is an inept substitute for a snapshot.

From Time Magazine Archive

And in the bruit of a large city, if one voice cries out above the turmoil, will not a babel of shouts rise from competitors ?

From Time Magazine Archive

The bruit of alarm was still to be heard in the street before the house where the remnants of the army pressed on headlong towards the river.

From The Great White Army by Sir Max Pemberton

Feu de bruit was his motto, and he lived up to it.

From The Pools of Silence by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole

She bruits the notion of “an emergency semicolon.”

From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2015

Faults are descried and magnified; no sympathy is felt for the sufferer, but a vulgar curiosity bruits the ill-natured rumor, and many hearts must hence bleed in their unseen solitude.

From The Young Maiden by A. B. (Artemas Bowers) Muzzey

If any man shall revive a quarrel by any scandalous bruits or writings, contrary to former proclamation published by his Majesty in that behalf.

From The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) by Various

She immediately bruits it abroad, attracting all the chickens on the farm, and then such another noise, pecking, grabbing and clucking ensues, until the choice bit is torn to shreds.

From Vacation with the Tucker Twins by Nell Speed

Meanwhile there were bruits of great doings in the north of Lincolnshire.

From Hereward, the Last of the English by Charles Kingsley

The average American probably hears peace talks being constantly bruited and thinks everything is under control.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 18, 2025

On the contrary, “Certified Lover Boy” had been bruited for nearly a year.

From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2022

FDA officials also have bruited the possibility of requiring vaccine manufacturers to modify their shots by this fall to target the omicron variant.

From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2022

Stars and starlets sought his services, 1950s scandal sheets bruited his name and Mike Wallace grilled him on TV.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 20, 2021

This leaves plenty of leeway for judgment, depending on whether the writer wishes to emphasize the continuing truth of some idea that was bruited in the past.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Those who are bruiting a new war are few in number though they may have great money power behind them.

From Time Magazine Archive

The early bruiting of Lloyd Bentsen's name looked like a textbook case of strategic leaking.

From Time Magazine Archive

I wasn’t all that surprised he knew our code name the way people were bruiting it about.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

But it's all our old lady's fault for bruiting it about!

From Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by H. Bencraft Joly

McClellan's delays coincided with a bruiting of the news at Washington that foreign Powers were about to offer mediation.

From Great Britain and the American Civil War by Ephraim Douglass Adams