Sentence examples for faint noise from inspiring English sources

There was a faint noise but replays showed a clear gap between bat and ball.

On applying intermittent current through an empty helix of insulated copper wire he perceived a faint noise from it.

Twelve-panel full-color THE BACK PAGE limning a couple's argument over a faint noise which may be imaginary.

It may have been just a faint noise drifting through a dismal, misty New England night, but that sound was the ringing of the opening school bell.

The New Yorker, April 17, 2000 P. 126 Twelve-panel full-color THE BACK PAGE limning a couple's argument over a faint noise which may be imaginary.

Then comes "a faint noise as of thunder" that makes the ship quiver "as if the thunder had growled deep down in the water".

He could see more and more, as if light were leaking from the patches of sky between the trees, shedding glimmers into the woods, where faint noises were reviving and becoming less faint.

The room is on the ninth floor and the window is closed because he has the air-conditioner on, but he can hear faint noises coming up from the street.

Thousands of minor clerks and small tradespeople, hearing faint noises of railroads they had never seen, mines they had never worked, steel they had never tempered, fled before the terror of dark.

Romantic, Chopin-like piano music by Alvin Curran (playing onstage) conflates with an electronic score of bird cries and faint noises; sunbursts of light illuminate the dancers as the running motif, repeated backward, forward, on different trajectories and at different speeds — is juxtaposed against extreme slowness and stasis.

Periodically stop for just a few seconds and silently listen for faint noises beneath the snow.