The gates of Paradise are about to be opened," Jamal declared through his black beard, his crazed eyes reflecting back the lights on the security door as they changed from red to green and a muted buzzer sounded.
He scooped it up and stumbled through the doorway, to the sound of muted gunfire down the hill, as the other two hoods continued to advance.
The peace of the hour was intense, and only emphasised by a dull, throbbing undertone--the muted murmur of the distant sea.
A couple of hundred meters from the house, a weapons carrier purred into position, wheeled to face the house, and stopped, the muted roar of its motor dying to a faint rumble.
Some sparrows were chirping up on a roof, but the sounds of the highroad were muted and dim.
Only that muted droning which arises from the vast hive of London told of four millions of workers moving intimately about her.
The thunder when it came spoke with a muted voice, for the storm was speeding coastward, and a light cool breeze stole through the aisles of the hills.
Woman voices reached us faintly from the street we had left and the muted pulse of the darâbukeh pursued us.
I am there at my best," he declared with all the mutedvanity of a modest man.
Its walls had muted the sighs in which the desires of youth had been spent.
Love and sorrow and a flood of tears had relieved a pressure somewhere, the balance had been recovered and her muted voice freed.
Jorj Helmuth sat across the desk from him, a few feet back, erect and grim-faced, while shadowy in the muted light, Caddy stood against the wall behind Tregarron.
These chores completed, he held his finger on a bedside button, which rotated the polarizing window panes until the room slowly filled with a muted daylight.
Nina reached for the remote and muted the sound from the TV Yes, that old twinkle is definitely there.
Around him came the clatter of computer keys and muted laughter from the direction of the water cooler.
Instead, what she feels is a stab of muted pain in her upper chest, pain she knows would be searing if she were to experience its full impact.
There is very effective melodrama music while the Queen describes Ophelia's death, muted strings pianissimo, and the clarinets playing broken snatches of the mad songs.
The twelve o'clock effect is curiously given by twelve sforzato semibreves on muted horns, beginning pianissimo, and swelling up until the twelfth note is given triple fortissimo.
Then comes a very solemn and dignified ending, strings muted and everything dying away to a whisper.
The opening is slow and pianissimo, muted strings giving out an almost hymn-like subject, occasionally broken in upon by anticipation of the real principal theme.
During their trio distant drums and muted trumpet are heard announcing the near presence of Macbeth, Banquo, and the army.
A muted cry drifted back through the howl of rain.
Then a fewmuted screams drifted down through the rain.
And Doctor Randall Byrne heard a sound like the muted music of the violin, thin and small and wonderfully penetrating.
It was so thin that it was almost ghostly, as if the soul of wild Paganini played here on a muted violin.
For instance in "Freue dich erloeste Schaar" an aria is accompanied by a flute, a muted violin, the rest of the strings pizzicato, and the organ part to be played staccato.
Thus in the above-mentioned aria the lower strings having begun pizzicato play pizzicato throughout, the first violins remain muted throughout, and the organ plays staccato throughout.
Stopped or muted notes in trumpets and horns resemble the oboe and Eng.
An echo given to muted brass following the same phrase not muted produces this distant effect.
Stopped and muted notes in horns and trumpets are similar in quality to the oboe and Eng.
In the horn both methods are employed; single notes are stopped in short phrases, muted in longer ones.
Muted strings do not combine so well with wood-wind, as the two tone qualities remain distinct and separate.
Muted trumpets are eminently suited to echo a theme in the oboes; flutes also may imitate clarinets and oboes successfully.
There was a yell of rage at the third shot, when the resonant voice of the huge drum became muted and a mere shadow of itself.
Never a variation from the steady beat, though the sound was muted by the distance it had to travel before reaching us.
Yet observe the curiously insinuating effect which results from Debussy's deft and reticent treatment of this episode--the pianissimo chords on the muted horns, followed by a measure in which the voices declaim alone.
She began at once to move above his thighs, and again muted sounds struggled stillborn in her throat.
When the dawn sky had lightened to a muted red, Hawksworth decided to start their move.
The composite voice of the carnival came up to these two children of carnival who were deserting it, and the roar, muted slightly by distance, was like the music of a heavenly choir in their ears.
Nor did they hear, a little later, the sound of the stealthy, futile turning of the knob, the retreat of carefully muted footsteps.
The Spaniard, realizing that in this altercation, whatever its nature, the doctor had stood his friend, ventured in a muted voice to ask him what had happened.
He had a pleasant, vibrant voice, whose metallic ring was softened and muted by the Irish accent which in all his wanderings he had never lost.
Her lips were parted; her body gleamed golden among the muted lights.
Behind the sepulchers ofmuted houses a cock was crowing.
Her introduction of the speaker was greeted with cordial, muted applause from gloved hands.
Illustration: A lowmuted roar pulsed through the ship] "What did he have to say about this operation?
He pressed more buttons and there was a muted sound of the voder calling a number.
She listened as though for the first time to the muted strains which played continuously throughout the city--calming, soothing, lulling.
She sits with that motionlessness of her type, closed lips, face mutedand expressionless.
Like a little muted animal it sits there, in distress.
Si'Wren's submerged ears heard the roar of the waterfall, like a continuous, muted thunder in the rushing river waters, as the horse fought his way to the surface again.
All life within the visible world, like a finger-drawing in the sand, could show only a muted portrayal of that spiritual side.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "muted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
