Sentence examples for a muffled tone from inspiring English sources

11 world, in which many people acknowledge that shared sacrifices are needed and much political dissent has taken on a muffled tone.

In "Open Letter to Terpsichore," Ms. Mongrain, in a mask, was a study in isolated movements as she described those movements in a muffled tone: the spirit imprisoned in a body.

The damaged speaker gave the song, a paean to Oldsmobile's high-compression engine, a muffled tone that would become the signature of early rock records produced by Sam Phillips for the Chess and Sun labels.

When blowing, avoid tensing up your lips to avoid a muffled tone quality.

The second section, told in a more muffled tone, bundled up in male sexual regret and a gauze of pedophilia, has echoes of Ian McEwan.

Erik Fratzke plays an electric bass, walking and chording, laying out theme and variations with a shortened, muffled tone.

The Beats Solo produces a more muffled tone, the imaging isn't as good, and they're not as comfortable on the head.

"I am losing my shirt," Mr. Rosstein said in a muffled, tense tone during a cigarette break outside.

The humdrum, muffled tone of these stories transmits an atmosphere of almost superannuated ordinariness — fusty antiquarians, old books, the slightly dampish vistas of university life, train platforms in out-of-the-way stations — places and people that mimic the life of the author himself, until they don't.

The students' presentational problems were glaring when they began: improper breath, bad posture, muffled tone, etc.

For hours, they offer anyone who walks by "hash, weed, coke, ecstasy" in the muffled tone bullies used to insult you in high school loud enough for you to hear but softly enough to keep them from getting caught.