MUFFLE in a Sentence

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For MUFFLE, below is one of 66 sentences:
The man roared like a bull when a splinter was in his finger, and the woman muffled the moans of childbirth, lest she disturb him.

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 Meanings and Examples of MUFFLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
muffle
 n.  bare end of nose between nostrils
Classic Sentence: (60 in 5 pages)
1  The cat, unnoticed, had crept up on muffled paws from Zeena's seat to the table, and was stealthily elongating its body in the direction of the milk-jug, which stood between Ethan and Mattie.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  "Mother was only fifteen when she married you, and I'm sixteen," said Scarlett, her voice muffled.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
3  The man roared like a bull when a splinter was in his finger, and the woman muffled the moans of childbirth, lest she disturb him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
4  She heard the soft muffled sound of his footsteps dying away down the long hall, and the complete enormity of her actions came over her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  Uncle Peter, muffled in a quilt, was bringing out the carriage to take Ashley to the train.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
6  The second sentry, a large man muffled in a blue overcoat from which villainous black whiskers burst, came through the mud toward them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
7  Sometimes he awoke at night and heard the soft sound of tears muffled in the pillow.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
8  Those in the house heard a sharp order, muffled by the wind: "Surround the house."
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
9  "I did not mean to pry--" she said in a muffled voice, her white face reddening, as she hastily pressed the towel back into place.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
10  Then there had been tiptoeing feet and hushed voices, muffled knocks on the door, neighbors rustling in to whisper sympathy and occasional sobs from Frank's sister who had come up from Jonesboro for the funeral.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
11  He hurt her and she cried out, muffled, frightened.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
12  For a long time Mammy strained her sharp ears but she could distinguish nothing except the clatter of silver on china, and the muffled soft tones of Melanie's voice.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
13  "Twenty-eight," she answered dully, muffled in the handkerchief.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXIII
14  Enveloped in their shaggy watch coats, and with their heads muffled in woollen comforters, all bedarned and ragged, and their beards stiff with icicles, they seemed an eruption of bears from Labrador.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
15  A muffled silence reigned, only broken at times by the shrieks of the storm.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7. The Chapel.
Example Sentence:
1  The gale still rising, seemed to my ear to muffle a mournful under-sound; whether in the house or abroad I could not at first tell, but it recurred, doubtful yet doleful at every lull; at last I made out it must be some dog howling at a distance.
2  Wishing to be undisturbed by the bell, Dale wound his scarf around the clapper to muffle the noise of its striking.
3  Blake held his handkerchief over the mouthpiece to muffle his voice.
4  There was the muffled sound of organ practice coming from the chapel.
5  The sound of the bell was muffled by the curtains.
6  The falling snow muffled the sound of our footsteps.