Sentence examples for faint notes from inspiring English sources

The wind carried faint notes of music from nearby ceremonies.

But in the background, faint notes of vintage jazz, rhythm and blues, and the odd standard could be heard.

Inspired by Cy Twombly, its textures whisper and quiver, with silences and faint notes, rendered almost orthographic by Mr. Campbell's clarity and specificity, alternating with frenetic dissolution.

It was not usual for Anna to be away from home a whole day, and her mother wanted her to have a picture to carry away with her when she walked out of the house into the bright autumn sunshine: a picture of her mother, looking very thin and forlorn, her shoulders stooped as she leaned forward trying to catch the faint notes of a radio program.

"An app that succinctly delivers on its austere promise in a way that would make Jason Fried faint," notes Foursquare's Alex Rainert.

He told us: 'You've gotta make another movie before …'" Dayton trails off, leaving room for Faris to introduce a faint note of scepticism: "Hmm.

Her cheery use of the name of the person she is addressing can seem to contain a faint note of mockery.

The text is scattered with misheard or archaic words which reinforce the uneasy sense of the past swelling into the present, of "a tide of unmentionables rising around them" (that faint note of prudish revulsion is entirely deliberate).

A faint note of orange in the cookies plays against the chocolate; a dusting of powdered sugar decorates the top.

And they listen for the faintest notes.

If those objects are bigger than Jupiter, longer exposures with NICMOS could reveal them as faint points of light, notes team member Glenn Schneider of the University of Arizona in Tucson.