muffle

The sound was muffled by the door but not nearly enough.

The words were muffled but he could make them out.

He could tell by her voice, muffled as it was.

She almost called out again, but muffled it in time.

His words were muffled, but she could make out most of it.

She was a little muffled, but I could still hear her just fine.

The trees muffled the sound but they could not be far off.

The sound, as you would expect, is muffled at times.

His voice was muffled, but so were all sounds just now.

Muffled in black, a third figure was apparently the woman.

She spoke to someone else, her voice muffled, then came back on the line with him.

Then I heard her voice sound very small and muffled in my clothes.

She began to hear David's voice more clearly, but it was still muffled.

The words, when they came, were muffled yet clear enough and the worst he'd ever heard.

Again, the voice called, only slightly muffled by the door.

Her words were muffled, but not the tone of voice.

The words were somewhat muffled, because the face was now down.

Everyone seemed to be talking at once, but their voices were muffled.

They watched the party through the window, its sound muffled.

She had never seen anyone quite so heavily muffled up.

He could hear voices, but the words were muffled by the wall.

Her voice was muffled, but the sense of it reached him clearly.

The suit muffled the sound of his own voice, rather as if he had a head cold.

Once again, she could hear only muffled talking, though it did sound like quite a bit of discussion was going on.

His own voice sounded a long way away, and muffled.