1.   Dark-clad soldiers with night-vision goggles slid down ropes, then muffled booms and shots erupted inside the old Exxon building and the former police headquarters.

2.   It had footage of the Arizona actually blowing up, complete with the muffled boom of the explosion.

3.   The stillness in the streets is broken only by the muffled boom of Israeli artillery along the border, and the occasional clatter of a helicopter overhead.

4.   With a muffled boom, rocks and pipe fragments flew into the air and rained down on the rooftops of the apartment complex.

5.   Another resident, Bill Way, said he heard a muffled boom and then saw smoke coming from the woods near his home.

6.   I heard a muffled boom and I thought everything was just going to collapse.