All drowned out, now and again, by wild deluges of rain.

She tried to drown out the sound by singing hymns.

The poor, she said, are having their voice drowned out by big contributors.

"Oh, thank God," she murmured, her words drowned out by the storm.

Hunter's voice was faint and almost drowned out by a great deal of static.

The robot's voice was weak and nearly drowned out by static.

Either silence or one-liners drowned out by his waiting helicopter.

"From my cold dead hands," he says, his voice drowned out by cheers.

But that just got drowned out by the noisemakers from the other side.

So, too - when it isn't drowned out by traffic - does something of what must have been its original charm.