As he walked, the whispers grew louder, and people stood, following.

Their whispers had grown softer, as if they both expected someone to overhear them.

When the doctors gave him the word that he would have to have another operation a year ago, the whispers grew louder.

In the theater, a whisper grew to a murmur and the applause died.

Each year the whispers behind their hands grew more poisonous.

Connor glanced at the door where the whispers had grown in volume.

"There's no time for all that now," she said, her whisper growing urgent.

The whispers from the back of life were growing dim as my mind and body soddened.

The whisper grew in magnitude, became a mutter, a roar.

What they were saying J could not quite make out, though the whispers grew steadily louder.