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'.
(..) - Excuse me. - Certainly. Oh, Anakin. - - I’ve missed you, Padmé. There were whispers that you’d been killed. I’m all right. It feels like we’ve been apart for a lifetime. And it might have been, if the chancellor hadn’t been kidnapped. I don’t think they would have (..)2005 Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith