MUFFLER in a Sentence

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A few moments later he reappeared with his violin-case a heavy muffler about his neck and thick woollen gloves on his bony hands.

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 Meanings and Examples of MUFFLER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
muffler
 n.  heavy scarf worn around the neck for warmth; anything used in muffling; part of the exhaust pipe of a car that dampens the noise
Classic Sentence:
1  He had a torn jacket, muffler of a blue like skimmed milk.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
2  The pale bark of the poplar sticks was mottled with lichens of sage-green and dusty gray; the newly sawed ends were fresh-colored, with the agreeable roughness of a woolen muffler.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
3  A few moments later he reappeared with his violin-case a heavy muffler about his neck and thick woollen gloves on his bony hands.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: IV
4  Gabriel coloured, as if he felt he had made a mistake and, without looking at her, kicked off his goloshes and flicked actively with his muffler at his patent-leather shoes.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
5  As midnight was striking bronze blows upon the dusky air, Dorian Gray, dressed commonly, and with a muffler wrapped round his throat, crept quietly out of his house.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15
6  She had knitted socks and baby caps and afghans and mufflers and tatted yards of lace and painted china hair receivers and mustache cups.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
7  In fur coats and mufflers tied over caps they were a strange company, bears and walruses talking.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
8  Trunks had to be carried down and mufflers looked for.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5
9  The market-gardeners, crouching, half-asleep, in their wagons, amid the salads and vegetables, enveloped to their very eyes in their mufflers on account of the beating rain, did not even glance at these strange pedestrians.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...
Example Sentence:
1  I stop at a light, thinking my muffler is dragging behind the car since this guy is trying so hard to get my attention.