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Example sentences for: muffle

How can you use “muffle” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Other nations tended to muffle or modulate their occasional annoyance with the country that was their shield against the Soviet threat.
However, the article also quotes analysts who say that President Clinton, scandal-dogged and an inchworm on foreign affairs, may muffle Albright's activism.
We are now perversely disposed to do the same thing with clumpy boots that box feet in or puffy shoes that muffle them up with blobs or colorful wadding, to which delicious concoctions have been added--the weighty clogs with dainty straps, the lofty heels with splayed bottoms.
Like Gorby, Khatami must muffle his reformist impulses in order to avoid provoking hard-line conservatives.