Let them lower their voices, avert their eyes, muffle the sound of their horses' feet.

We covered it with plastic sheets, but the noise of the drips kept us awake, so we had to put towels over the plastic to muffle the sound.

How can we muffle the sound from the ensuite and, more important, block smells?

Soundproof louvres and doors are used to muffle the sound or direct the noise towards the city or the river as required.

A frost makes everything it coats sparkle, and a deep covering of snow not only changes the garden beyond recognition, but eerily and noticeably muffles the sound in it too.

Tap the drainpipe; a blockage will create a muffled sound.

Then in my twilight world of darkness and muffled sound, the water began to trickle, then splash, into my nose and gasping mouth.

I can remember the muffled sound of the music coming through the floorboards.

No more fuzzy programmes with muffled sound and colours like confetti in a puddle.

The muffled sound, dropouts, sudden changes in sound quality, unsteady pitch and other defects heard all too often are almost always accumulated tape copy defects.