Sentence examples for attempted to muffle from inspiring English sources
Trying to calm the children, she attempted to muffle the haunting sounds of gunshots and screams broadcasting over the intercom and read them stories.
Yes, he acknowledged, he heard the pounding chorus, even as Madison Square Garden attempted to muffle it with music and drumbeats pumped through the public-address system.
Ryan's misapprehension was understandable, given the dab does resemble a polite attempt to muffle a loud sneeze.
In a further attempt to muffle my cries, he took out a large volume of the Talmud and encouraged me to read the words in a pathetic attempt to comfort my pain and revitalize my Spirit.
"[It happens] for a variety of reasons: nerves, excitement, fear of letting go, an attempt to muffle your sounds so as not to disturb the kids," Jessica O'Reilly, Ph. D. sexologist and founder of The Sexual Pro Series webinars, tells SELF, adding that you might even hold it simply because "the heavy breathing that precedes and accompanies orgasm feels unnatural".
Wasil Mohammed attempted to escape.
Attempting to minimize distractions, he installed cork doors to muffle the sound of the cash registers and would not allow drinks to be served during performances.
As I sat in a muggy Sevillan café, valiantly attempting to study for final exams, the constant chattering of voices and buzzing of electric fans weren't enough to muffle the uncontrollable sobs of the girl next to me.
Attempting to capture the "soft, warm, proto-doowop sound" of the 1940s harmony group the Ink Spots, Radiohead muffled microphones with eggboxes and used the ondes Martenot's resonating palme diffuseur loudspeaker to treat the vocals.
