In the end, Hall's attempt to involve the public was strangely muted.

It was a strangely muted speech, and took them all by surprise.

It splashed into the sea far forward, and running aft down the side came the familiar cry, strangely muted.

One of his assistants answered, her voice strangely muted.

It was a strangely muted showing from a promising musician.

The guns still boomed, but they were strangely muted.

It seemed a strangely muted reaction, especially in a neighborhood that has long complained of problems with the police.

The combined music of the other rings surrounded her as well, a note almost too deep for human hearing, yet still somehow strangely muted.

Yet on the streets of this temple town - the swami's seat - the response to his arrest has been strangely muted.

To her right she heard the sound of a waterfall but it was strangely muted, muffled.