Look out for splashes of colour against a muted background.

The vector line was brilliant against the muted background.

In this book, Washington stands boldly forth from a muted background in which all others are pretty much of the same size.

The velvet walls softened the ambient noise to a muted background, like ocean surf.

From there the sounds of the party became muted background, and the moonlight filtered through the latticelike lace.

Alien voices from the restraint room formed a muted background.

Dressed in black and set against a muted green background, the sisters are seen in a doorway.

The sounds around her faded into muted background noise.

The songs comes closer to displaying conventional song-craft, with a singer taking precedence over the muted background.

The sonic playout gave a muted background of early twentieth-century jazz.