Then there was another sound so soft that it needed no muffling at all.

The rain made this muffling of his face seem perfectly natural.

And then what about the muffling of the fall?

Now that I came to think about it, they accepted the muffling of all their senses.

The muffling of his voice made him sound abstract.

Through the muffling of the sack she heard the door shut on a shouted command.

Through the muffling and the mystification, some aspects of his life emerge.

And the muffling of the hurt was also unmistakable.

Zevon asked again, more forcefully despite the muffling of the wall material between them.

Fatigue crawled up him like a muffling, grey blanket.

Probably the muffling of our voices inside had misled it into thinking we were out of range.

The more turbulence created, the greater the muffling & less total air flow / power production capacity.

I could barely understand her through the muffling of my shirt and the beginning of her own tears.

It was like the muffling of the birdcalls when Ansset had been in his cell on the fiatboat.

He was startled to see it only four or five yards away-a tribute to the muffling of the oars.

Apparently, while attempting to escape my muffling, Jill had bitten my hand hard enough to draw blood.

Now that The Shadow had accomplished his appointed mission, the roar of the motor needed no further muffling.

A huge fight broke out, with shouting and screaming, and even the muffling of the receiver by someone's hand couldn't hide what was happening.

"Go away," Martis called, the acid tone of her low voice clearly evident even through the muffling of the wood.

Through the muffling, suffocating silence, I heard Madeleine coming downstairs and opening the cellar door.

There- fore the muffling of the horses' hoofs.

She raised her voice to a good loud clarity, to be sure her words penetrated the muffling of her mask.

This may cause no symptoms, or it may cause a muffling of sound, decreased hearing, and mild discomfort.

"Perfect," growled the alter-Miles, freed of the scanner-shield's sonic muffling.

Indeed, characteristic of this performance was a general muffling of diction, indicating perhaps the pre-eminence of sound over subject matter.

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.