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Example sentences for "faint sound"

  • And at last a faint sound, the light tread of little feet, was heard amidst the silence.

  • The grey wintry daylight came into the room, and they could see the black trees in the garden, while the house remained full of quivering silence, save that overhead a faint sound of footsteps was audible.

  • Then, with a rising sensation of anger that a man could sleep calmly in the midst of such peril, he was about to tap again when he was conscious of a faint sound within, and directly after a voice said softly: "Who is there?

  • As they came near the building, suddenly lights were seen in the windows once more and a faint sound of the automobile horn again was heard.

  • Fred shook his head and did not reply, but when at last in the dusk they drew near the place where the mysterious old house was standing, all were convinced that they heard a faint sound of an automobile horn coming from the place.

  • Instead of a response from their companion a faint sound of an auto horn was heard in the old building.

  • The monster still gnashed and grasped in expectancy at the sea's edge, and a breeze brought through the wood a faint sound of drums.

  • As he sat one evening with eyes fixed on the far-off sea, sparkling under the moon, the wind brought the hoarse call of the surf and a faint sound of hula drums, and a sudden impulse came upon him to see the world for himself.

  • Listening intently, as if she knew that somebody was about to speak, she distinguished a faint sound of crumpling paper.

  • A faint sound of slumbering breath drawn evenly met her ear as she paused at the door of the slip of a room where Zarifa lay hidden.

  • She paused a second as if her keen ears had caught some faint sound, then she swept the strings with a resounding force that echoed and re-echoed through the roof, drowning all else.

  • Came a faint sound of metal grating upon metal, and Smith pulled open the door, which turned outward upon the steps, and bent further forward, sweeping the ray of light about the room beyond.

  • There was a faint sound of moving mechanism and the wooden lid lifted, revealing the interior of the coffer.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another place; armed ship; born citizens; brief sketch; covered over; economic forces; equal representation; faint blush; faint flush; faint sigh; faint smile; faint sound; faint twinkle; faint voice; give advice; good turns; immense value; individual objects; little grimace; little stick; logical process; molten lava; old enough; second base; seeing what; will give thee the