1.   Blast is still going strong though, perhaps because its sound is too loud for wet fashion victims to handle.

2.   But inside the echo were sounds not quite their own-a kind of threnody, a weeping, something melodic and sad.

3.   Carpets, carpet tiles or rubberised floors help to keep background noise low, allowing meaningful sounds to be more audible.

4.   Dolphin sounds are unintelligible to humans, and cover a larger range of frequencies than we can hear or differentiate.

5.   Even though these recordings are restricted in range, the sound is more grateful.

6.   From the garden, no other property is visible and the only sound is that of birdsong.

7.   Here the only sound was the faint hum of the air-filters overhead.

8.   I wondered how anyone could work in a place where this sound was so loud.

9.   In fact, the sound is so wonderfully persuasive that it supersedes the logic of the lyrics.