Sentence examples for muffled yes from inspiring English sources

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You can't see the judge when you hear his muffled "yes, sir" and one gets the sense that he's just trying to finish up this meeting that he apparently attended as a favor to an acquaintance.

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"Given the buildup for those two series," Todd Zeile decided Thursday evening, "yes, they were significant". Unfortunately, the statement they made in April was muffled by subsequent sweeps suffered at the hands of the Montreal Expos and Cincinnati Reds, establishing a pattern that would mark the next two months.

So I guess, yes, the sound is amplified in the sense that it'd otherwise be muffled if there weren't a hole in the bottom of the rubber foot against which the phone's speaker was placed.

I heard muffled voices.

The phone is muffled.

"Through laughter, discreetly muffled".

The mother (Collette, her significant talents muffled under big blond bangs) is the President's doctor; the father is a cheat; the son deals drugs; and, yes, the daughter is pregnant.

All we're hearing is muffled screams.

The machine hums and is muffled.

Donald Trump's catastrophe siren must be muffled.

The sense of public outrage is muffled.

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