VERB
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express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness
My mother complains all day
She has a lot to kick about -
start playing
The musicians struck up a tune -
express one's opinion openly and without fear or hesitation
John spoke up at the meeting
How To Use sound off In A Sentence
- People rightly sound off about politics on television and the last two weeks have shown how sharp and articulate they are.
- We are eager to sound off at the approach of anybody with a clipboard. Times, Sunday Times
- Excuse me to sound off, you're not right.
- Even with the sound off, Georgie is a gagger for me, neurophius. Firedoglake » The Insider
- After a few hendecagonal dollar coins' worth of beer every real Canadian begins to sound off his maniacal laughing leading into the falsetto wailing loon call.
- That sound offends my ear.
- A buddy back in those days, who loved to sound off about rock music in an infuriatingly cerebral way, was fond of peddling the theory that the genre could be cleaved into two distinct halves.
- This concussive approach is more pronounced on ‘Sticks and Nails’, where resonant metallic pings and tongs sound off like broken grandfather clock chimes.
- An interesting test of this for television commercials is to view it with the sound off and see what the visuals alone communicate.
- trying to sound offhanded and reassuring
