Sentence examples for muted drone from inspiring English sources

That engine delivers the muted drone typical of five-cylinder power plants — it could use a decongestant — but it is plenty strong.

The smell of new-mown grass carries on the warm breeze and from a few fields away comes the muted drone of a tractor.

-- The assault began late on a moonless night with the muted drone of heavy, low-flying aircraft and the silent blossoming of a thousand parachutes.

In "Stosspeng," a great hourlong piece on his new double CD, "Touch Strings" (Touch Music), he's recorded two muted electric-guitar drone notes, played by Robert Poss and Susan Stenger, formerly of Band of Susans.

It's commonly portrayed as too big, its recent transformations too vast to grasp, its population a muted and faceless army of drone labour.

So far the reaction in Pakistan to the increased drone strikes has been muted.

Instead, Swimming ends with a serene shrug: on So it Goes, over muted guitars and a spacey synth drone, Miller sings those three words like a mantra before being swallowed by a wall of sound.

Soundtracked by barely-there piano, muted string arrangements and subtle avant-drones, The Crying Light is a stubbornly internal, uncompromising record, centuries away from the coming-out party of Bird.

The muted brass blare sinks to a warm drone, then further into silence and, finally, back again, at once mournful and joyous.

The chorus of popular criticism has only grown louder in recent years despite muted acknowledgment by some Pakistani officials that the drone strikes have been effective.

At the very end, Golijov asks his brass players to improvise freely on the single note C, creating a strange, shimmering drone, while the chorus repeats in muted tones the lament of the opening.