Remembering the other woman's private income, Loretta made only a faint protest.

But the vision reached inside his resistance and turned it off, leaving a faint muted protest tingling far behind.

The faint protests in the background implied that the engineer's departure was not entirely voluntary.

Saket was promptly hauled away, faint protests still audible from his lips.

"It was just a spider," Rod said in faint protest.

It took my weight with a faint protest and did not settle whatsoever from the alcove threshold.

She had just enough time to gasp out one faint protest.

This fatherly tribute made his sister blink, and utter a faint protest.

We could not pretend surprise, but Peggy ventured a faint protest.

That silenced them, except for one faint protest.