Voices are muffled and during our hour-long tour we heard only a handful of phones ringing.
The mood was somber as students lit candles in silence, with only muffled sniffles filling the air.
Statesmen's funerals were opportunities for militia mourning parades, accompanied by slow, muffled drumbeats.
Part of the reason for the enthusiasm is that WAP has so far hit Asia with a muffled thud.
But it earns 90% of its money in euros, so the enthusiasm about its results was muffled by currency fears.
Many of us, well muffled up, have carried lanterns around our local area to sing carols to friends and neighbours.
That distant muffled rumble lasted ten seconds, no more, until the tale went off the scale, lest it should be a bore.
As the hearse drew away, the half-muffled bells of St Paul's began to ring, the solemnity of the sound hanging in the air.
The fire crackles like a straw broom on cobblestones, but the only sound from Henry is the muffled slap of his coat sleeves.
The message is clear and not muffled by conflicting positive comments.
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Some days we had to wrap scarves around our faces and speak in muffled voices, only our eyes exposed to the street and the weather.
The sounds of the other children came at her muffled, harmless.
But such criminological niceties are muffled when the wig-wearers start talking.
Performers wore wireless microphones, not hidden inside their costumes, where the sound would be muffled, but outside, in full view, as close as possible to their mouths.
She took a sip and with her usual insistence on quiet muffled the impact of the glass on the marble with the soft tip of her little finger.
But although this was embarrassing, it was not calamitous: it was a muffled wail, as it were, that the master of Thornfield Hall could pretend not to hear.
This is because, if you have very good intelligence genes on your X chromosome, it pays not to have them muffled by more average genes on another X chromosome.
Walking along the hard-packed dirt floor, he could hear the wooden planks of the stage creaking overhead, and the distant, muffled voices of the actors and laughter from the audience.
In a move we truly appreciate, the company placed the two speakers on the front of the device, so the sound won't get muffled if you set it down on a table.
It was a damp day and, after he had parked the van and set off down the forest track, even the noise of the Edinburgh-Glasgow motorway was muffled by thick, dark fir trees.
At the stroke of midnight, a muffled roar rang out -- I couldn't see the store doors open because I was around the corner -- and the next 10 minutes was a satisfying blur.
Unfortunately for anyone hoping to get a sense of the PSS110's sound quality, though, the speakers are not exposed, so the best one will hear is a muffled version of what the device can output.
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Now, in this warren of rooms, except for the muffled sound of the crowd above, the only sound was the whooshing of an underground stream, redirected here from Roman times for irrigation and cleaning.
That alone seems like an act of common sense on Vizio's part: far too many tablet makers stick the speaker openings on the back side, which means unless you have the device propped up in a dock, the audio's bound to get a little muffled.
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