He could hear the dim sound of a cow mooing.
She made a dim sound with her breath.
His head still rested against the wall, and it seemed to him that through the stone came sound, very dim and far away.
A dim sound pounded into her head, and Brooke realized someone was knocking on the door.
And again, she was moving fast across a polished floor, and a dim sound coming from a distance distracted her.
A dim sound of laboring machinery was pulsing in it.
There were dim sounds of return small-arms fire in between the shell bursts.
Upstairs, there was a dim shattering sound, followed by a screech.
There was a dim sound of boards breaking underwater.
He could hear the dim sound of police sirens; but that was at the other end of town.