dampening

How To Use dampening In A Sentence

• The shops below had the pipes inside the brick walls, dampening the sound quite effectively.
• Firefighters were still at the scene on Saturday morning dampening down the burning embers.
• The third can at least be muted by some dampening, and by putting sufficient thought into case design and component layout to minimise sympathetic vibrations.
• They stood there watching the river run past, not even dampening the crossroad that lay beyond its borders.
• He pulled the kitchen window shut as Jim shut the front door, dampening the clamor slightly.
• Increase the intensity of the colour by dampening your brush slightly before applying to give an opaque finish. The Sun
• Any inputs by the pilot at launch create a dampening effect in the opposite direction to counter the excess pitch-rate change.
• Such self-indulgent interludes succeeded only in dampening crowd excitement. Times, Sunday Times
• Subduing or "dampening" this motion is the key to silence. The Whitetail Deer Hunter's Guide to Buying a Quiet Compound Bow
• This has led to the hypothesis that this treatment may be helpful in dampening that lateralized hyperexcitability.