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The very first view of the house put a dampener on our mood.

The global financial crisis has certainly thrown a dampener on this growth, though.

She thrust her hand inside and grabbed the signal dampener.

"Do what we did before when you reset the dampeners.

It acts as a dampener while the energy goes through the injectors.

He concentrated on the dampeners, but nothing was working.

If the weather's putting a dampener on your beach holiday plans, it's a great place to head.

He had a brief struggle with the dampener, which was heavy and awkward.

Resting in the second officer's lap was one of the signal dampeners.

The inertial dampeners struggled to keep up with the sudden change.

She detached an energy dampener from her belt and primed it.

"Not a chance," said Riley, putting a dampener on any optimism.

Not even a general election can put a dampener on the property market this spring - at least, that's what the latest figures show.

Had they been immobilized by the energy dampeners too?

Straight pipes have no noise dampeners at all, in direct defiance of the law.

It's as if a dampener has been placed on the fires of the America's Cup.

Tan Bao did likewise as he pulled the dampener free.

The signal dampener thudded onto the mud in front of him.

This section of corridor is protected by sensor dampeners and force fields.

I can never see why people refuse to give autographs, for example- it puts such a dampener on things.

He slung the strap of a dampener rifle over his shoulder.

She slung the dampener over her shoulder, scrambled up the ladder.

Other manufacturers later used similar slide elements as "vibration dampeners".

The most significant dampener has been the recession.

But rain can be a dampener for beach worshipers.

Several Republicans seemed to put a damper on the idea.

But they wanted to trade me, which kind of put a damper on the whole thing.

But it's not going to put a damper on what kind of year we had.

I just had time to hit the dampers and get out.

Such problems, however, do not seem to have put a damper on sales.

Their presence in a room put a damper on everyone and everything.

"That does put a damper on our relationship," the man in black said then.

That rather put a damper on the conversation for a while.

How could she have put a damper on his pleasure?

Not forever, but for the moment, which would act as a damper.

They must have a sophisticated damper system of some kind.

"But when I got hit by that line drive, it really put a damper on everything."

She'd worked with dampers as part of her training and never liked them.

I'm not trying to put a damper on your celebration.

This kind of thing can put a damper on the job hunt.

The dampers are free to move a few feet relative to the floor.

We like to travel, and it's put a damper on all that.

That would really put a damper on our trip to Mexico.

The presence of the man cast a damper on everything.

My age, however, did seem to put a damper on his enthusiasm.

I didn't mean to put a damper on our day.

He jerked on the damper and the big car shot forward.

It had put a real damper on his phone call to Patricia.

If you have a fireplace, close the damper when it's not in use.

"Hopefully I will put a damper on all of their plans."