Sentence examples for muffle critics from inspiring English sources

And he exploits this fear as an instrument to muffle critics".

It's a 'concrete deliverable' that will go a long way toward muffling critics and hard-liners at home".

He may muffle some critics, but not all.

China is also desperate to hold the 2008 Olympics here and may hope that the adoption of a significant rights treaty will help muffle international critics who oppose the bid because of rights violations, most recently the persecution and imprisonment of believers in the Falun Gong spiritual movement.

Gloves muffle the signal.

Or muffle them?

Music and noise muffle conversation.

Yet he would not muffle his optimism.

Instead, it has learned how to muffle its extremism.

We make noise to muffle noise, as the author observes.

In the meantime, the White House planned to muffle their grumbling.