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How to use muted in a sentence

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The cotton shirtings with their muted colours are a terrific buy for the summer.
By adopting a muted form of cultural relativism, the scientific establishment seeks to coexist with other points of view.
Its Spanish colonial architecture consists of arched facades, muted plaster exteriors and trellised courtyards.
Already the air was warm, underscored by a chatter of birdsong and the muted clop-clop from their horse's hooves.
Derby's victory perhaps made the award of the Premiership trophy to United more muted than it might otherwise have been.
The sudden modulation brings a galaxy of woodwind delights against muted, pointed strings.
They show up in blue shirts, wool ties, moleskins and muted sports jackets.
They tussled on the floor, an oddly muted fight as they were both trying to shield the book from damage.
Colors seem to be unnaturally muted, so that the entire movie has a soft, bland look to it.
Her outfits and blokish humour are viewed with muted approval, although even she is eventually portrayed as self-serving and unreliable.
Here the funeral procession, muted in blue-black as it is, nonetheless has the same kind of psychological and aesthetic impact.
The ground was hard and brown and rocky, parched, but the caw of birds from a nearby grove of olive trees muted the sound of my footsteps.
Sounds are muted with dull explosions and gunfire, and the music is very dreary.
For a moment, every sound was muted by the pressure of the water, of bubbles kicked up by her uninvited presence.
To keep the drums from becoming overpowering onstage and in the mix, they were muted with a set of SoundOff drum set silencers.
He has aged remarkably well, his manic oddness muted by experience and dry wit.
But the celebrations were muted by news that they are unlikely ever to see their children again.
My relief at learning that I'd be staying in the same place as previous years was muted by the realization that this was the end of the line.
Any exuberence felt was muted by that dull pain of having hurt someone I care deeply for.
But he muted his enthusiasm when it appeared that the stance might hurt his party in the elections.
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Now one ear seemed muted by a temporary difference of air pressure where a standing wave lingered for a second or two.
There was a peculiar, throaty quality in her voice, like a muted violin or 'cello.
For a client who loved lime green, Schuneman covered one dining room wall with wallpaper that combined bright lime green with a muted sage green.
Trading was muted due to closures in many markets for the Christmas holidays, according to Malayan Banking Bhd.
For the time being, conscience was muted by gratified ambition.
A classic muted teal, rich in deep green and blue hues, this paint shade really is what it says on the tin.
That whole winter collection had a somberness that came through in a muted color palette.
Far away, muted by distance, came the ululating wail of a coyote.
Then to his ears came the most welcome soft roar of muted rockets.
On another, I might turn right, and wallow in watercolour offerings and their muted tones.
These manage to be rakishly charming and sleekly gentlemanly, especially in muted browns and greens.
The sound, quite dynamic, is rather bright in the climaxes and fortissimos, somewhat muted at other times, and slightly thin overall.
In a muted lavender shade and with added diamante, her dress is just frou-frou much for us.
Foothill blacktail habitat, desert Coues deer haunts, and other warm and brushy places tend to be light in color with muted greens, grays, and golds.
Although critics would still have lambasted the board for its decision in the Brown case, the absence of the secrecy issue would have quickly muted the furor.
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