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JP puts his hand over Alex’s mouth to muffle the sound.

“That way you’ll muffle the sound and not disturb anyone, but you’ll still hear a tap.”

As explained by University of California Santa Barbara marine biologist Douglas McCauley, the best way to protect ocean life is to slow down ships, route ships away from whale habitats and develop new technologies to muffle ship noise.

Ella draped her quilt on top of them to muffle their fussing, then arranged her headscarf on the pillow.

He lived at the time in a mobile home in Hemet, where he stockpiled hundreds of rounds of ammunition, along with supplies to make suppressors that muffle a firearm’s blast.