Sentence examples for dampen sound from inspiring English sources

And cubicles' flimsy walls do little to dampen sound.

Leather-covered tables, Caiola told me, would dampen sound just like the white tablecloths of the old Tavern on the Green and help create a more informal vibe.

It consists of 49 yellow silk-and-metal five-foot spheres, each containing six 75-watt bulbs, which block the view and dampen sound.

On display will also probably be shutters from the plain-spoken farmhouse John Jay grew up in; Ms. Clary says she believes they were scavenged for Peter's new mansion and reused in a ceiling to dampen sound.

This, however, can potentially dampen sound transmission, and adds another layer of risk for displacement of an element of the reconstruction.

Similarly shaped sculptures lining the sides of highways could potentially squelch the roar of traffic more effectively than slabs of concrete, which only dampen sound waves.

During the demo the car remains stationary, but Mr Ludwig said that were it being driven, the resulting noise would further dampen sounds passing seat-to-seat.

There may also be a selective effect of dampening sounds of certain frequencies of noise.

There was not enough water or vegetation to dampen the sound.

Some were made with dull, laminated tops; others had holes cut in them for pickups, or solid blocks of maple running down the center to dampen the sound.

It had layers of horsehair around the thousands of hand-placed hourglass-shape springs called Bonnells, and in a move that neither Vi-Spring nor Coco-Mat had anticipated, flax around the springs to dampen the sound.