1.   No one heard her muffled screams.

2.   Jim issued the kind of muffled scream a wading bird makes when a raccoon grabs it by the neck.

3.   That muffled scream you hear comes from Raymond J. Greenwald, punching a hole through his living-room wall.

4.   The muffled scream of a jet can be heard throughout most nights, long after commercial airliners have stopped landing at area airports.

5.   The muffled scream traveled out of his room, down the stairs, around the corner and through my bedroom door where it penetrated the pillow covering my head.