Example sentences for: muted

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

  • and delighted-to-be-here voice-overs" (John Leonard, New York ). "At times you may feel you've tuned into a commercial for Colonial interiors or an online flower show" (Walter Goodman, the New York Times ). Burns earns muted praise for his evenhanded if inconclusive portrait of Jefferson, particularly for his treatment of the Sally Hemings question and Jefferson's contradiction-riddled approach toward slavery.

  • Golden angels hold up the bell tower, and the interior is decorated with a few muted murals.

  • Color has been drained from the frame: The greens of uniforms and browns of earth are muted, the sky rendered a neutral gray.

  • In fact, the oil companies appear to be planning on prices between $20 and $25 a barrel, which would mean that while filling up your tank is going to be more expensive than it was nine months ago, any inflationary impact from oil prices will be seriously muted.

  • Maybe the anti-fashion people now wearing pale blue and muted rose are dressing to match the new dawn they assume will flood the future and ultimately wash away the ink-stamped past.


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