Sentence examples for muffled from from inspiring English sources

It's as if the past is some feathered sanctuary, a nest muffled from contention and the noise of debate, its events suffused by a pink, romantic glow.

After barely half an hour's journey, the grim caravan turned down a bumpy track, halting just far enough into the desert for gunfire to be muffled from passing traffic.

That may be so, but the level of control and secrecy in the NHS means the clanging sound is muffled from the public.

(As May is escorted out by a pair of burly MPs, Churchill, Turing and the Cryptographers huddle together excitedly) Churchill: (muffled, from within the scrum) Nothing compromising!

Though his music may often sound as if it were written by a man locked in the basement of the Paris opera — hearing late-nineteenth-century music, muffled, from a couple of floors down — he turns out to be very much a boy of the Monty Python generation, his ears full of rock and British comedy.

Events The diners heard muffled explosions from the far side of the compound.

The posters showed decayed bodies and skeletons piled in unearthed mass graves, and they elicited muffled exclamations from the audience.

A microphone caught later muffled comments from the elderly leader referring to either a "long" or a "wrong" speech, leading to speculation that Mugabe may have deliberately or otherwise omitted pages or read content that varied substantially from that reportedly cleared with the military high command.

Jessie Davis, whose diction was muffled, recited passages from the book as dancers, including the waiflike Tyler Patterson, switched between playing victims and victimizers.

I could hear muffled singing coming from behind a closed door down the hall.

I was in my room and I heard muffled screams coming from my parents room.