muted

How To Use muted In A Sentence

• They gazed in awe at the hive of activity against the muted background clack of typewriter and word processor keyboards.
• Since my parents both commuted a long way from home, long before the word "playdate" ever existed, I spent most afternoons running from house to house, soaking up the sounds, smells and tastes. Jessica Seinfeld: Reclaiming Family Food
• He was interested in the structure of rings of linear operators and realized that the central idempotents, that is, the operators E that commuted with all other operators in the ring under multiplication (that is, EL = LE for all L in the ring) and which were idempotent under multiplication The Algebra of Logic Tradition
• He has always liked to stitch his folk songwriting to a muted electronic backbeat, and he retains that sense of cautious experimentalism here.
• Langorous horns, ticking guitars and muted keyboards have been added, sketching out long, graceful arcs of melody over the bubbling rhythms.
• So how 'bout simply saying a muted but sincere 'Thank you, God' for an honest and smart president who's trying to move ahead by untangling the 'fubar' mess left by the crooks, dummies and wackos who ruled Washington for eight long years. Giles Slade: Obama Without Glamour
• In consequence the autumn colours are muted, just soft dusty yellows for the most part.
• Pasted-in bursts of muted cymbal and guitar are stabbed and splashed against it.
• Materials and finishes - epoxy resin floors, simple plastered walls, steel, precast concrete and waxed oak - are austere, and colours muted: gun-metal grey and white counterpoised to the warmth of wood.
• There was a muted boom as the Captain closed and dogged the ships inner lock shut behind us.