They tried to muffle the noise.
I could hear their muffled voices from the next room.
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They are set in Midwestern towns and incline toward domestic scenes that muffle the world a bit.—Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025 Riley said that would muffle sound produced by the data center.—Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Sep. 2025 This is the perfect opportunity for the Business Roundtable to advocate for its members in a forceful, direct challenge to the administration, but it has been perplexingly muffled.—Jason Ma, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2025 That should tug on our hearts since Willa’s worth caring for, but the emotional heft between dad and daughter gets muffled since there’s just not enough oxygen given to those scenes.—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for muffle
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