Sentence examples for muffled tone from inspiring English sources

The students' presentational problems were glaring when they began: improper breath, bad posture, muffled tone, etc.

Erik Fratzke plays an electric bass, walking and chording, laying out theme and variations with a shortened, muffled tone.

11 world, in which many people acknowledge that shared sacrifices are needed and much political dissent has taken on a muffled tone.

The second section, told in a more muffled tone, bundled up in male sexual regret and a gauze of pedophilia, has echoes of Ian McEwan.

The damaged speaker gave the song, a paean to Oldsmobile's high-compression engine, a muffled tone that would become the signature of early rock records produced by Sam Phillips for the Chess and Sun labels.

A story, a novel, possibly even a poem, was designed - should be - to drop from a hand which was nowhere, as a Ding an sich". Miss Calisher must have sensed that the well-made story of those postwar years, with its muffled tone and quiet epiphanies, could never become a vehicle for major fiction.

He paused, spoke to someone in muffled tones.

Briggs heard them thumping around and opening cupboards and speaking in muffled tones.

The offices are separated by partitions, over which the muffled tones of business conversations in many languages and requests for copy machines (they're provided) can be heard, but no more loudly than in most offices.

"He's got good morals," conceded a graffiti artist called Monkey, while helping his friend scale a traffic light and drape a banner: it depicted a grim reaper clutching fistfuls of banknotes.Nico, a French resident of London who sported a cardboard box over his head (to denounce climate-change denial), said in muffled tones that he was "not sure about Obama but he can't be worse than George Bush".

In here young couples, shrouded in cigarette smoke, leaned across the tables towards each other and talked in muffled tones, relishing the liberty that this space provided them.