How to Use muffle in a Sentence

muffle

verb

• They tried to muffle the noise.
• I could hear their muffled voices from the next room.
• All the noise of the world stops here & muffles, muffles me.
  — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2018
• In a snowstorm, the sound is muffled by the snow, said Carbin.
  — Anthony R. Wood, Philly.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• Nothing muffled the sharp sounds of our shoes on the white tile.
  — Elisabeth Egan, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2017
• The Dhawans sometimes leave their TV on high volume to muffle the sounds.
  — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 26 July 2023
• Turn on a fan, radio or TV to muffle the sound of fireworks.
  — Carolina Gusman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 28 June 2017
• And while the snow sometimes muffles the thunder, the lightning can still be seen.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2018
• Commotion muffled the sound, yet the wail managed to break through the noise.
  — Samantha Leach, Glamour, 3 Dec. 2019
• The volume of her despair rose to a level even the drugs couldn't muffle.
  — Amy Yurkanin, AL.com, 24 Aug. 2017
• Road and wind noise are mild, and the suspension muffles bumps well.
  — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 7 Apr. 2020
• Women who wear the full-face niqab want to sing but refuse to lift the veil that muffles their voices.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 May 2020
• All of the curse words that are muffled at school and banned at home are screamed, for everyone to hear.
  — New York Times, 9 Dec. 2017
• Many of the ringers wore earplugs or headphones to muffle the deafening peals.
  — Joseph Wilson, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 July 2024
• When the noise didn’t stop right away, a couple of people closed some of the retractable warehouse doors to muffle the sound.
  — USA TODAY, 8 July 2020
• When the noise didn't stop right away, a couple of people closed some of the retractable warehouse doors to muffle the sound.
  — Morgan Watkins, The Courier-Journal, 6 July 2020
• By the time the orchestra joined her after a few minutes, the cough count was up in the 20s, the attempts to muffle them rare.
  — Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 27 Apr. 2017
• Any attempts to call for help may have been muffled by the noise from the compressors for the coolers.
  — Allen Kim, CNN, 24 July 2019
• The woods would muffle the sound of gunfire, officials say.
  — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 20 Mar. 2018
• City dwellers might now be hearing sounds that can get muffled by the usual drone.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 2 Apr. 2020
• The sun also seems to be veiled by a wall of smoke muffling its normal brilliance.
  — Erik Lacitis, The Seattle Times, 8 Sep. 2017
• The ice and snow didn’t help, putting him on his back frequently, and his shouts were muffled by the snowdrifts and the pane of my window.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 11 May 2018
• Skillings told police the driver blared music from the Jeep to try and muffle the sound of the gunfire, the affidavit said.
  — Everton Bailey Jr., OregonLive.com, 23 Apr. 2018
• The beats aren’t muffled as if they were recorded in a gas station bathroom.
  — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Sep. 2017
• On the floor above, the noise of a Democratic Party meeting muffled the sounds of his murder.
  — Fergus M. Bordewich, WSJ, 5 Jan. 2024
• Sun shone through the canopies as the crickets and the gentle breeze muffled the light hum of cars passing on the Wilbur Cross Parkway nearby.
  — Shahrzad Rasekh, Hartford Courant, 26 Feb. 2024
• When the curtain fell, masks could not muffle the rapturous hollers.
  — Rich Benjamin, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2022
• Or did her sadness muffle that impulse and jam it back down her throat?
  — Ken Otterbourg, Longreads, 24 Feb. 2018
• Mr Schlaerth’s idea is to reflect and muffle the worst-offending waves.
  — The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
• Party leaders were no longer willing to muffle their panic.
  — Brian Bennett, TIME, 21 July 2024

Last Updated: 8 Dec 2024