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• A muffled curse escaped my lips.From the entry muffled
• Eventually, their heavy, muffled footsteps indicated that they were moving off down another passage.2021 July 8, Maximilian Hawker, Rory Hobble and the Voyage to Haligogen, Unbound Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry tornit
• Used as a contact and alarm call, the muffled raab is like a muttered, husky quack.2019, Adrian Thomas, RSPB Guide to Birdsong, →ISBN, page 141. From the entry raab
• Some soft, muffled bufferedness was bound to take over, as if she were buttressed by excess packaging.2016, Lionel Shriver, The Self-Seeding Sycamore. From the entry bufferedness
• My stomach made a remarkably Godzilla-ish noise and I rolled over to try and muffle it.2011, Alesa Corrin, Jonathan: The Griffin Prince, AuthorHouse, page 451. From the entry Godzilla-ish
• A bad placement will sound chesty, throaty, muffled, have obvious clothing rustle, or wind noise.2010, Richard Patton, Sound Man: An Introduction to the Art, Science, and Business of Location Sound, Location Sound Ltd., →ISBN, page 126. From the entry lav mic
• She spoke the muffled words into her pillow as she hit her fist upon the bed.2009, Stephen A. Phillips, “The Visa”, in From Moscow with Love, Pittsburgh, Pa.: Dorrance Publishing Co., →ISBN, page 57. From the entry net
• “I see she's feelin' betta’,” he said in a muffled voice.2008, Sarah Deckard, Tapestry of Tales: Classic Fairy Tales Retold, page 181. From the entry betta
• Ruth muffles the receiver with her hand but I can just make out her saying, “Quiet, Emily.2003, Lily Burana, Strip City: A Stripper's Farewell Journey Across America, page 223. From the entry suctiony
• Hamre's ears, muffled by the cap-flaps and ear-phones, soon got used to the noise.1931, Ion L. Idriess, Lasseter's Last Ride, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 101. From the entry cap-flap
• Her voice came, muffled, as if from the back of the top of his head.1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not… (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 125. From the entry ventriloquial
• He put his ear to the door and heard voices within, and the muffled sound of footsteps.1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter II, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company…. From the entry rap
• Just as he was about to give up and head home, Frank heard muffled voices coming from the car park.2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN. From the entry try as one might
• Eliasson’s falls are almost miragelike, especially after dark, when unobtrusive lighting makes them shimmer white against the muffled cityscape.2008 June 27, Roberta Smith, “Cascades, Sing the City Energetic”, in New York Times. From the entry miragelike
• Despite the construction of muffling sheds and sound barriers, the report has continued largely without interruption — thock, thock, thock-thock, thock.2007 April 7, Andy Newman, “City Islanders Ponder Future Without Gunfire Across Bay”, in New York Times. From the entry thock
• Please muffle the whimpers, the drippings of sweat.2004, Welsh Arts Council, Poetry Wales. From the entry dumben
• The sounds are the muffled gurgling of runoff under frozen brooks, and the sharp quork-quork-quork of ravens overhead.2000, William Scheller, Snow Sports, page 170. From the entry quork
• To have her straitjacketted even, muffled in a padded room?1948, Henry Green [pseudonym; Henry Vincent Yorke], [chapter 1], in Concluding: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, published 1950…. From the entry straitjacket
• Here and there appeared an ominous but graceful swirl in the water; once there was a muffled curse.1941, The Nation, volume 152, J.H. Richards, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 413. From the entry bananoid
• Greville had truly called him, muffled me up in it, and by force carried me thro' a long entry to the foredoor.2014, Samuel Richardson, Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Richardson (Illustrated). From the entry foredoor
• Nicole caught her breath at the muffled, woesome sighs: Douanier-Lieutenant Peder LaMotte, Acting Capitaine of Concarneau, her love and her father's nemesis, was weeping.2011, Jan Tucker Mulligan, Smuggler's Legacy. From the entry woesome
• A kind of aural uncanny is produced, with classic pop ballads occurring in unexpected places and an unlocatable industrial hum subsisting with—or even muffling—dialogue.2008, Andrew Dix, Beginning Film Studies, Manchester University Press, →ISBN, page 154. From the entry Lynchian
• We must thank the memory of this brought to us now, when it is not muffled as usual by good breeding, courtesy and Christcentrism.2003, Lacanian Ink, numbers 21-26, page 11. From the entry Christcentrism
• My family at times seem to think they are aristocrats, at other times I swear I can hear the muffled sound of dueling banjos.2000, J. Allen Myers, Spectre: A Collection of Poems and Short Stories, →ISBN, page 66. From the entry dueling banjos
• Frail smoke of morning in the air and a sort of muffled hum that is not sound but is not silence either.1993, John Banville, Ghosts. From the entry frail
• "Oh, weh! oh, weh!" The Child-Who-Was-Tired pushed and pulled them apart, muffled them into their coats, and drove them out of the house.1910, Katherine Mansfield, The Child-Who_Was-Tired. From the entry weh
• Underconsumption aims to muffle the noise of fast fashion advertising by slowing down and focusing on what you have, instead of what your explore page says you need.2025 July 29, Laura Van Diesen, “Sewing your way to sustainable fashion”, in The Boar, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2025. From the entry underconsumption core
• The political situation after the Year V elections developed into a war of position between rival factions, with muffled insurrectionary noises off supplied by bellicose neo-Jacobins and sabre-rattling royalists.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 515. From the entry noises off
• Once he was asleep again, they brought him back again, bound him, sealed him in his deathbox, muffled the World from him with a black, black pall.2002, William T. Vollmann, Argall: The True Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith. From the entry deathbox
• The truck was going past Wollaton Park and Barry was still yapping about this chick's hairy mott and yet it was only background muffle to Desmond.1978, Pat McGrath, People in the Crowd, page 150. From the entry mott
• Debate: The first dividend has been to muffle Reagan’s running sermon on Fordonomics in general and deficit spending in particular as the root of all economic evil.1976 April, Newsweek, volume 87, page 266. From the entry Fordonomics
• A few yards downstream was a stretch of sloping rock and moss, and here all clamor ceased: only the close-placed ear could detect the muffled squush.1949, William Beebe, High Jungle. From the entry squush
• It was another cry, but not quite like the one she had heard last night; it was only a short one, a fretful, childish whine muffled by passing through walls.1910 November – 1911 August, Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden, New York, N.Y.: Frederick A[bbott] Stokes Company, published…. From the entry fretful

Meaning of muffle

1. noun Anything that mutes or deadens sound.
2. noun A warm piece of clothing for the hands.
3. noun A boxing glove.

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Questions about muffle in a sentence

How do you use muffle in a sentence?

Muffle is used as a noun and verb. For example: “A muffled curse escaped my lips.”

What is a short sentence with muffle?

“A muffled curse escaped my lips.”

What does muffle mean?

Muffle means anything that mutes or deadens sound.