The sun was warm on my skin, faint strains of happy laughter drifted with the wind, and the flowers were in bloom.

The song proper starts some time later, with a faint strain of violins somewhere far off.

There was, in fact, a faint strain of ambiguity that ran through the program.

From the house next door came the faint strains of Beethoven.

There were the faint strains of music from the distant carnival dance as it wound its way through the streets.

A dance ended, and silence replaced the faint strains of music that had come to the sun porch.

The faint strains of opera could be heard over the speakers.

From the kitchen, he heard the faintest strains of the radio.

There're faint strains of brass in it and I don't know what else.

The big old house stacked above was quiet, except for a faint strain of Vivaldi from far overhead.