11.   I could hear muffled voices.

12.   The projected heads, with their eyes closed and mouths tightly bound and gagged, strain to speak, but their muffled voices are incomprehensi ble.

13.   Then he heard loud knocking, followed by muffled voices.

14.   His face covered with a T-shirt, he told reporters in a muffled voice that he shot the two policemen because he wanted to steal a car.

15.   Lawton said in a muffled voice.

16.   Nirja Patel could not hear her son and daughter-in-law in the other room, but there were muffled voices from trapped neighbors all around.

17.   Suddenly, their sensitive detectors picked up what sounded like a muffled voice coming from under a concrete slab.