Sentence examples for order to muffle their from inspiring English sources

The Poles played raucous music in order to muffle their screams.

Men were ordered to muffle their boots and weapons to help them bypass known German incursions into the perimeter.

In the meantime, the White House planned to muffle their grumbling.

To maintain the quiet, guards even put socks over their shoes to muffle their footsteps.

They stuffed wads of fabric into their mouths, either to muffle their cries or perhaps to help themselves suffocate.

He is so jarred by noise that he disassembled all the telephones in his temporary office and used tape to muffle their rings.

Since April, when the militia first took control of the shrine, people here have seemed to muffle their comments about Mr. Sadr and his men.

For the time being, secular Democrats, including the big contributors in the entertainment industry, are willing to muffle their complaints about Mr. Lieberman's moralizing.

Whenever they air a truly mean sitcom, such as the long-gone "Buffalo Bill" or "Action," the audience flees, so TV executives have learned to muffle their comedies' barbs in "Only kidding" smirks and "You're the greatest" hugs.

Women - who often spoke no Greek - would cover their mouths with their headscarves to muffle their speech, but Mr Fokas's mother was arrested and fined 250 drachmas, a big sum back then.

During his preliminaries, Rodeheaver often instructed audiences about how to muffle their coughs.