1 The house seemed muted, hushed as if it had been deserted.

2 To muted applause a small flag was raised over the building.

3 Everyone was sitting round discussing the accident in muted voices.

4 There was polite, muted applause when I finished speaking.

5 The idea received a muted response.

6 He muted the strings with his palm.

7 The response from local businesses has been muted.

8 Double glazing muted the noise of the traffic.

9 The proposals received only a muted response.

10 The traffic noise was muted by the heavy drapes.

11 Their reaction to the news was somewhat muted.

12 They muted the propaganda campaign later.

13 She was dressed in muted shades of blue.

14 They spoke in muted voices.

15 The speech received only a muted response from the unions.

16 The corruption does not seem to have muted the country's prolonged economic boom.

17 'Yes,' he muttered, his voice so muted I hardly heard his reply.

18 The strings are muted throughout the closing bars of the symphony.

19 There was muted agreement from most of the people in the room.

20 He likes sombre, muted colours — she likes bright colours.

21 The threat contrasted starkly with his administration's previous muted criticism.

22 Anne heard the tinny thrash of muted music.

23 There was rather a muted response to the speech.

24 He was awakened by a muted buzzer.

25 Is your presence regularly met by muted stares?

26 The females are more muted in brown and white.

27 The light it shed was muted, dusty.

28 Here muted lights, soft leather, stained wood and anaesthetic chamber music prevailed.

29 The incident so shocked all the students that it muted further protest.

30 The net effect of the application of the liberal model for developing work with the unemployed is thus somewhat muted and minimal.

1 The house seemed muted, hushed as if it had been deserted.

2 To muted applause a small flag was raised over the building.

3 Everyone was sitting round discussing the accident in muted voices.

4 The strings are muted throughout the closing bars of the symphony.

31 At twilight, the blazing orange sunset turned into a muted pink.

32 But that weak rationalization came too late and has been muted by the waves of criticism.

33 Before he could say anything, the telephone on the Grecian plinth nearest to the girl gave a muted double purr.

34 From outside he could hear the muted hum of London's traffic.

35 With sandgrouse it lies in a delicate gradation of one muted tone into another.

36 Margaret fell in love with a muted green-based carpet with a pattern of tiny red squares woven around the borders.

37 To prove their patriotism, Catholics muted whatever differences they perceived between the teachings of Church and the practices of State.

38 As for immigration, Texans are curiously muted on the subject.

39 The murmurs - of surprise, dismay, muted terror, mutiny - are allowed to run their course.

40 At first all criticism of the running of the war was muted and was aimed at measures rather than men.

41 They did not disappear, but were more muted than before.

42 The voices were muted, or muffled by what seemed to be cotton.

43 I tried to ignore the now more muted sounds of their inmates, keeping my eyes firmly on the floor.

43 try its best to collect and make good sentences.

44 You hear muted music, the lower octaves from an organ.

45 They gazed in awe at the hive of activity against the muted background clack of typewriter and word processor keyboards.

46 There they encountered nine round tables for eight, decorated with gold candelabra and muted pastel flowers.

47 Reno muted criticism by taking responsibility for the decision, as well as hanging tough during congressional hearings in 1995.

48 More muted in palette than Adam's recent work, they have yet the same characteristic richness of evocation.

49 But they appeared to me as if seen through the wrong end of a telescope, muted and unreal.

50 Inside my chest I can hear it screeching, although muted by ribcage and other human tissue.

51 I liked the town, for all its drab and muted calm; it seemed a safe place to be.

52 Bond prices were little changed in modest trading and the dollar was mixed in a muted session.

53 My enthusiasm has always been more muted in the case of the big, highly publicised national charities.

54 From it, as she passed, came the companionable muted clucking of hens settling for the night.

55 He was making sure they were not exposed to any form of light source, however muted.

56 The carpets, furniture, and walls are in muted shades of tan and green.

57 However, such public condemnation and the associated moral outrage can, on occasions, be strangely muted.

58 All the resolution needed for maximum impact, I thought, was to have its sharp working-class rhetoric muted.

59 Oil-for-food has muted some of the international condemnation of the United States for the sanctions.

60 They shouldered their paddles and again laughed, though this time the laughter was muted, gagged by the just-offshore wind.

61 A glimmer of lightning lit the window again, and the thunder could be heard, distant and muted.

62 So is the hum and whine, despite being muted further by extra sound-proofing.

63 The muted reaction is a measure of how deeply the degradation has seeped in.

64 She placed the record on the turntable and the muted trumpet of Jonah Jones softly assailed the room.

65 Theo's occasional complaints, hardly ever voiced directly, were usually muted and so we fail to take note of them.

66 Let the eyes hold the spotlight and keep lips muted with soft pink or peach.

67 A colour will seem brighter on a smooth, hard surface and more muted and darker on a rough, softer surface.

68 The Air Transport Association expressed muted support for the action.

69 But there was only the sea foam, the muted deadly gurgle of the ledges them-selves.

70 She turned abruptly and moved quickly through the hallway, hearing from outside the open front door the sound of muted voices.

71 The sun sets and the harsh lines of sun and shadow dissolve into blurred shapes and muted colours.

72 I muted the TV sound to avoid the inane commentary.

73 How about the crinkling of Cellophane or the more muted wax paper?

74 There was a muted quality in her usually lively voice.

75 They gave her pills which kept the world at a distance, muted things, let her dream.

76 And then I saw him a couple of months ago, his voice muted by a stroke, his handshake softened.

77 The thunder of the engines dropped to a muted roar, then a gentle hiss, then died into silence.

78 Noise was muted, telephones pinging daintily against the artificial air.

79 The crowd seemed reasonably relaxed, both assent and indignation muted.

80 Their dangerous, uncontrolled sexuality is destined to be muted by the life-long practice of inhuman austerities and self-denial.

81 At times the internal class conflict will be open, sometimes it will be muted.

82 The round, muted bluesy guitar is solid and unassuming until it explodes into a dizzying solo.

83 Even the bare winter branches, tidy and muted like dry bones, had become a disturbance of tangled nerves.

84 The scurrying tourists with their Nikons and their designer shopping bags are transformed the instant they enter this muted space.

85 Market reaction to the resignation was muted, with the CAC40 rising 1 percent to 1,942.73.

86 She could hear her tossing restlessly in the bed, as muted sobs escaped from her dreams.

87 Reaction even against the political system with which it was so closely integrated was muted.

88 A muted grumbling followed, then the slamming of a door.

89 The men's footfalls were muted - jungle boots on concrete.

90 I could spot only four or five, grey-haired and staid-looking, dressed in muted, somewhat old-fashioned, frocks.

91 Then a cough from next door, muted but clear enough, made him stare at Renwick and shake his head.

92 Her gestures were lively, almost like those of her partner but perhaps a shade more muted, not quite as buoyant.

93 The celebrations were muted because the 40 days' mourning for the late president is not yet over.

94 Upon awakening, I was stirred by the muted chug and hum of the neighbour's Cadillac.

95 Only the whimpers above the noise of the muted wind urged him in.

96 She had gone to sleep on the angry voices whose muted sounds came upstairs like a warning fog.

97 A common sandpiper bobbed on a boulder on the hillside, quietly piping, a muted whistle.

98 After years of knockabout abuse in this paper, lets give two muted cheers for Whitbread and their hops.

99 In the second the observations of a character are noted: the metaphor is muted.

100 Public access to an environmentally attractive waterfront has received a favourable response in the city and has undoubtedly muted political debate.

101 It'seemed dimmed and muted now in the pervading fog.

102 We heard a muted voice over the intercom.

103 There were muted cheers from the public gallery.

103 is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find nice sentences for a large number of words.

104 At first the wooded hillsides muted the sounds.

105 Yet the most vocal U.S. creditors, like Russia and China, are likely to make only very muted calls for new reserve assets and fiscal consolidation in the U.S.

106 American jazz trumpeter and vocalist who was noted for his muted trumpet style and his mumbled scat singing.

107 On the other hand, if you own a house in, say, highflying Los Angeles and plan to retire to the muted Dallas market within the next few years, a California property collapse could really sting.

108 And inside, there was a bit of a football match going on. And with it, another muted miracle: despite the megalomaniac dimensions of the place, it somehow maintains a human proportion.

109 "Stalker" deploys a slinky melody that worms its way between rimshots and muted horns, to an eerily spooky effect.

110 Each features muted metallics in shades of seafoam, periwinkle, gold, and aubergine .

111 Saying that, the rally was rather muted and failed even to reach the previous day's high.

112 The battlefield was silent. The only sounds were the whisper of wind through dry grass and the muted clank of weapons as soldiers stirred upon the walls.

113 This prevents the silver from being removed from the negative, and the result is a contrasty image with muted colours.

114 Seidel. Industries like health care and education are still adding jobs. Public accounting and financial advising are also continuing to do well, although their growth is more muted.

115 In the bottom image, vegetation appears bright green, snow appears bright turquoise, and fog appears as a very pale, muted blue-green.

116 As the national debate over fiscal policy descends ever deeper into penny-pinching, future-killing absurdity, one voice is curiously muted - that of President Obama.

117 S. criticism was more muted. In contrast, Libya's Moammar Gadhafi, a long-time provocateur, felt the West's military might.

118 These physical and neural changes can lead to muted signals to the circadian system.

119 The deciduous trees—maple, aspen, crab apple, birch—have begun to turn; but in a wet year their colors are more muted: umber, ocher, russet, and mustard.

120 The muted moves came ahead of U.S. data on nonfarm payrolls for November. Analysts expect the pace of jobs growth to improve, but remain too slow to make a dent in unemployment levels.

121 Other economists reckon that with productivity high and wages muted, a pernicious wage-price spiral of the kind that lay behind soaring inflation in the 1970s is unlikely.

122 The muted light-blue price series of daily closes illustrates the point at which the 1930 Dow reached its ultimate momentum failure.

123 Though the battle was a decisive win for the English, Maupassant contends that their victory was somewhat muted as Louis had the best bon mot on the battlefield that day.

124 The fin-ancial markets gave a muted response to the Democrats' triumph.

125 Even some of the more muted coverage has, more or less, characterized Amazon as a shopaholic or spendthrift of sorts.

126 Bottle Sickness: A temporary condition characterized by muted or disjointed fruit flavors.

127 Far below, Jack could see the winking lights of the Borough of Queens spread out before him, a muted golden glow against a purple-black evening sky.

128 Why have the Chinese shifted from strident opposition to muted acquiescence?

129 Sunlight reflecting off the many layers of the touch screen and LCD is the primary element that washes out the image, making fine detail difficult to distinguish and colors to become muted.

130 In the near term, that remains a challenge given persistently high unemployment and muted wage gains.

131 Europe's low birthrate and its muted consumerism mean its contribution to global GDP will tumble to a quarter of its current share within 30 years.

132 There was muted reaction in financial markets immediately following the data with U.S. stocks little changed in a choppy session.

133 Distance muted the gorging and tippling at the table to an elfin conviviality .

134 Do not play brass — no brassy Broadway songs, brass bands, marching bands, or big bands that feature brass, except a muted flugelhorn.

135 A muted electronic chime sounded upstairs as Silas stepped onto the carpet.

136 The hallways are hushed as kids move wordlessly between classes, lined up single-file on the right side of each hallway, though they do bop and sashay in muted, youthful excitement.

137 News that U.S. forces killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had a muted impact on the foreign exchange market, with investors remaining fixated on interest rate differentials.