Sentence examples for like a muffler from inspiring English sources

Isn't that an irrelevant characteristic, like a muffler that's available in designer colors?

Mike Arrington may have called CloudFlare unsexy when it demoed at TC Disrupt — "like a muffler for the Internet" — but that kind of security and speedy rendering is pretty hot.

If you want the can to look more like a muffler you can spray paint it prior to putting it on.

But those arrested for a minor offense, like driving without a muffler or even disorderly conduct, should not be subjected to this intrusion on privacy, unless there is a reasonable suspicion of contraband.

His reputation as a game manager, a thinly veiled criticism in football circles, has trailed him like a rusty muffler.

For one night, at least, Rodriguez stifled some of the criticism that has trailed his 20-day minor league rehabilitation assignment like a rusty muffler.

In the video the bride, Thandar Shwe, is weighted down with dozens of diamonds the size of pebbles, making her hair sparkle and embracing her throat like a glittering muffler.

Ever since designers and fashion editors started tossing about the term "ladylike dressing" like a threadbare muffler from Gimbel's, one has had the feeling they don't know what they are talking about.

My favorite became the Indri indri, author of that distinctive, eerie song and resembling something that has been assembled from spare parts in the animal kingdom's chop shop: raccoon snout; baboon legs; koala ears; a long tail like a fuzzy muffler; black and white fur like a skunk.

Since the death of the saxophonist Eddie Perez in August, El Gran Combo now has one remaining original member: Rafael Ithier, the pianist and longtime bandleader, who now mostly conducts and acts as a genial M.C., joking with a voice like a dragged muffler.

"He would complain that I would snore so bad I sounded like a broken muffler gasping for air," he said.