1.  FIREMEN had raked through explosion debris with their hands after a faint voice was heard, a fire chief told a trial yesterday.

2.  Adolescents often feel that the mere presence of parents drowns out the faint voices of their true selves.

3.  But from the transistor radios in the upper deck Friday night, the faint voice of Vin Scully began to wake the dead.

4.  He looked sickly and disoriented and said with a faint voice that he had to go to New Orleans.

5.  His chest hurt, he said in a faint voice and teary eyes.

6.  Over the sound of the truck idling, he could only hear faint voices of men barking orders in Serbian.

7.  Only a few faint voices in the giant ballroom recited along with Creacy.

8.  She is too weak to sit up, her voice so faint her father leans over cheek-to-cheek to hear what she is telling him.

9.  Some faint voices of concern have appeared in the press.

10.  Talib Muhammad, his white beard yellowing and his hands coarse and cracked, sat outside a mosque and spoke in a faint voice.