Former submariners say that many of the collisions have occurred because submarines have to navigate by interpreting sounds filtered through their sonar equipment.

The sounds of the ale house filtered through the closed door beyond, muffled and rau- cous.

King Posse used a more Jamaican sound, filtered through a New York sensibility, while T-Vice and Mizik Mizik mixed compas and dance music.

Orta laughed--it was a most unpleasant sound, filtered as it was through the vocoder.

In Weather Report, he often employed a vocoder as well as pre-recorded sounds played (i.e., filtered and transposed) through a synthesizer, creating a very distinctive, often beautiful, synthesis of jazz harmonics and "noise" (which he referred to as "using all the sounds the world generates").

Synapses vibrated shrilly under the stress, delusional ripping sounds filtered into his ears, coming from inside his skull, neurone membranes splitting open.

Occasionally the sounds of battle filtered through the narrow window.

Von Brauchitsch winced again as more sounds filtered through the door, the crash of a body against a wall, a shriek of pain, low sobbing moans, then silence.