Sentence examples for muted sounds from inspiring English sources

So when the runners reach this stretch, "they are met with silence, interrupted only by the rustling of the fall leaves on the street or the muted sounds of small hands clapping.

This pensive study set five dancers inside a small square space, bounded by four handsome wooden frames on wheels (designed by Jeremy Lydic and Mr. Gibsonn's layered score, full of the muted sounds of conversation and perhaps dishes.

In "ni die saa" (the title means "I do paint music" in Zapotec), which here received its world premiere by the fearless International Contemporary Ensemble, the musicians engaged in a rite of violence against their instruments in which the relatively muted sounds they produced were completely at odds with the furious effort expended.

Qasim Naqvi's drumbeats were weirdly small and clipped; Amino Belyamani's single piano notes, damped with his free hand inside the instrument to create muted sounds or harmonics, could suggest a drum or a ngoni, the West African lute; the bassist Aakaash Israni sometimes played a repeated two-note phrase with a great dynamic shift between one and the other, as if traded between two people.

The strange muted sounds of underwater exhaustion intensified my morbid thoughts.

Oh, the muted lights in buses at night and the muted sounds.

Mr. Milosh said he suspects that Rhye's muted sound is behind the confusion over his sex.

The muted sound, making the sirens and blaring horns sound strangely distant, as if underwater, or in some horrible dream.

The engines have been criticised for both creating a muted sound and for producing a processional style.

If his muted sound, with its abbreviated notes, has always evoked Miles Davis in his cool period, his sunny emotional attitude is the opposite of Davis's introspective mutterings.

Of the Polycom videoconference systems that popped up in Mr. Moore's scan, none blocked control of the camera, asked for a password or muted sound.