Sentence examples for stifling sound from inspiring English sources
On Saturday night, performing alone at City Winery and struggling through some stifling sound problems, she sang "The Littlest Birds," a pleasant folk song she used to perform with her old band, the Be Good Tanyas.
Dancers and singers need exactly opposite qualities from a stage, because dancers want to stifle sound and singers want to project it.
I wear earplugs on the subway to stifle the sound of metal wheels on metal tracks; when I can't get a seat, I fall asleep standing up.
Here they do so under conditions of extremity, even panic, which is dramatically expressed, but more typically the pressures on and in Mr. Sciarrino's music are so severe they almost stifle any sound at all.
During an interview, a political expert said that thinking the reason behind the attacks were just the caricatures of the Prophet was "ridiculous" and claimed that it is "profitable" for the US to "spread chaos in Europe, to stifle the sounds minds that call for the re-establishment of a cooperation with Russia".
Hina put a hand over her mouth and stifled an awkward sound, something between a cry and a moan.
As long as it's transparent to the user and it doesn't stifle innovation, that sounds like the kind of rumble I can get behind.
The sound of the bullets falling into the chambers was slight and stifling.
Finally, after three decades of stifling political correctness norms, millions of Americans have found their voices, and it's not a pretty sound.
The mediocrity is stifling.
