I expected to hear back from them but I never heard a 'whisper'. [=I never heard from them again]
“I've had more than I can stand,” she complained in a 'stage whisper'.
I couldn't hear what they were saying because they were 'whispering'.
(..) on the borders of Buckland? Folk used to say there was something in the water that made the trees grow tall... ...and come alive. Alive? Trees that could whisper... ...talk to each other... ...even move. I'm starving. We ain't had nothing but maggoty bread for three stinking days. (..)2002 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers