How To Use Sound In A Sentence

These observations will provide a valuable supplement to the simultaneous records of other expeditions, especially the British in McMurdo Sound and the German in Weddell Sea, above all as regards the hypsometer observations (for the determination of altitude) on sledge journeys. The South Pole~ Remarks on the Meteorological Observations at Framheim
An imprimatur is not guarantee of theological soundness, in reality. Dr. Janet Smith replies to Dr. Schindler, defends Christopher West
He made comments about a couple of items, suggesting an appetizer that sounded unlikely but that, in his words,'went down a treat. FOLLY
But that makes me sound a bit glib. Times, Sunday Times
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It sounds like a lot of hassle, a real triumph of so-called style over substance.
However Its normally an extra mit full of cash in the pot from me as I try and turbo speed goffer the place dry This doesn't sound like a good deal. Army Rumour Service
Although I agree the procrastinatory tactic sounds a little off. Wolverine Trailer Attached to The Day The Earth Stood Still | /Film
The production sounds a little soupy here, but I think it really adds to the song if you can understand that.
And in a way I want to make my language as mimetic as possible, as sensual as possible, so that you can feel the treetops, taste the lamb chump chops, and hear the wind and the sound of the surf beating on the beach.
I blame it all on becca who called me in the middle of the night to talk to me all about how the two best friends names are Kate and Becca and that the main character lives in apartment 601 as my address and other kooky details that i have been trying to forget nightly since i saw that movie, And then every sound is that kid coming out of the television and im only writing about it now in order to expunge as i fear she will grab hold of my foot from under the desk and eat me or turn me into something decomposing or whatever it is she does. I-claudius Diary Entry
Mostly, however, she seems to be held in some kind of incommunicado status until they need a sound bite, and then they throw the power switch, download the text and out she spits it, with all the emotion of an automaton. Condi a Waste of Time
I picked up the faint sound of a car in the distance.
She works days as a chambermaid at a local hotel and at night lies awake fearing the sound of his tread.
I clicked the 'Live Chat' button, and lo and behold, I was deposited in a chat room with what sounded suspiciously like a chatbot.
Like Gideon, her mother only existed in scraps of moments, in colors and sound, all disconnected and dissonant.
That creaking sound you hear? Times, Sunday Times
_ -- The dotted lines in Fig. 60 represent isacoustic lines -- that is, lines which pass through all places where the percentage of observers who recorded their perception of the sound is the same. A Study of Recent Earthquakes
Our simple submission is the majority in the Court of Appeal got it right for cogent and sound reasons.
The development includes eight sound stages, production facilities, digital facilities and outdoor back lot areas.
Putting Cape Wind in Nantucket Sound is like putting a refinery in Yellowstone. The Volokh Conspiracy » Cape Wind Approved
While in a state of mesmeric sleep, he said that, yes, he was asleep but would rather sleep more soundly.
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. C.S. Lewis
In some present-day music the individual syllables of words are used primarily for their sound quality and seem disconnected from the rest of the text.
Volumes of exchanges have been taking place over what some of these correspondents have called the militarisation of Haiti by international forces, many of the voices sounding off against it. TrinidadExpress Today's News
And Nauru, which was once named Pleasant Island, which sounds like a good place to be right now. CNN Transcript Dec 31, 2006
Rich, warm string tone, sweet, elegant winds, and mellow, sonorous brass are the hallmarks of the ‘Saxony sound’.
From the garden, no other property is visible and the only sound is that of birdsong.
I was watching the match in a pub without sound, and I had forgotten about it, so it was not until I got home that I realised that Langer had taken a hat trick, and that was why the West Indian fieldsmen all looked so pleased.
I was telling him about last night and he described me as sounding languid and louche, and consequently correctly guessed that I was still in bed.
The sow, the mouse and the cow sounded a rousing song.
Vordul's verse is uninspiring and sounds much more like spoken word poetry, rather than a proper rap.
‘Sewing a squash ball into the back of their pyjamas or nightie might sound like a wind-up but it's effective because it stops people from sleeping on their back,’ he said.
It sounds good and if it does result in more properly-managed concerts, fairs, festivals and community events being staged in the city's parks it has to be good news.
There are synthesizers that use frequency modulation and other algorithms to generate extraordinarily rich and complex sounds.
They probably can't bleep a specific word on the fly so the sound would just disappear for a period.
His life was one of varied and significant achievements - an advocate at the Scottish bar, a sound if impatient and pugnacious judge of the Court of Session, and a politically active Whig.
Carson's voice on the phone was preceded by that of a lawyer who asked if I would mind listening to Johnny while he spoke his piece, which sounds like even daffier a concept now than it did then. Nights with Johnny Carson: As long as it's been, we still long for them
Maybe the term "bussed" was a misnomer, as it sounds too organzied, but ... BlogTO
Kirkwall lifeboat was called out to a boat aground in the Rousay Sound on Sunday afternoon.
I'm sure this will sound all finger waggy, but I say it only out of concern for your safety. Blog: The Secret to Life
It was more than that, of course, but she liked the careless sound of the alliteration. FLIGHT LESSONS
The Deftones were good but suffered a muddy sound mix.
His grand-sounding name 'Tintoretto' means nothing but 'the little dyer,' and it was given to him because of his father's trade. Knights of Art; stories of the Italian painters
The sound is a direct descendant of old skool UK garage, the bumpy beats of yore with rubbery basslines and cutting edge sampling techniques, taking in everything from soul to electro to jazz to blue grass.
He was a large, meaty, oily type of man — a kind of ambling, gelatinous formula of the male, with the usual sound commercial instincts of the Jew, but with an errant philosophy which led him to believe first one thing and then another so long as neither interfered definitely with his business. The Titan
The magic of the elves is a twilight thing, the sound of distant silver horns, a fairy gold that turns to dust by noonday, and it is meant to chide the pride of foolish mortal men. MIND MELD: Today's SF Authors Define Science Fiction (Part 2)
‘No Clymer, I want you to try serving underhand,’ Mrs. Toth said, sounding exasperated.
Aryan shrieks and runs out of my room, making such noise that her footfalls sound like an army trooping onto the battlefield.
All of these documentary specials rely heavily on source material for visuals and even sound.
There is a faint hissing sound and a burning smell. Times, Sunday Times
Sounds wafted into the room
The group, composed of four brilliant and accomplished musicians playing the guitar, mandolin, bagpipe, piccolo and violin, will bring their highly original sound to the stage.
The creak of the wooden pontoon was such a sad, lonely sound.
A guttural sound broke from his chest when he felt her sheathe tugging him deeper, its slick clench undeniable. Dreams of a Dark Warrior
One such is the following chart, which can be used to devise typical bureaucratic phrases that sound impressive but mean nothing.
It's not related to the band because it isn't music in any shape or form, just anguished, terrifying pure sound.
I suggested maybe a different sound like a meow or something.
After making the sauce, I thought both potatoes and chickpeas sounded good, so on a whim I made a potato with panch phoron side dish -- but next time I would do 2 things differently. Archive 2009-04-01
Among an ever-improving crop of pivotmen, Duncan is still the most dependable and fundamentally sound.
The laughter wasn't very loud, it sounded normal, unlike the laughter of a madman, or a drunken pirate.
A subsequent kerfuffle (rather drawn out) sounding not unlike a fist fight interspersed with successive shards of glass falling. BEHINDLINGS
Daniel - yeah, now suffering post-wedgy issues - let's just say get them to do a full harness check instead of a "quicky" becuase you an in a chair. oh that sounded rude too Wheelchair indoor rock climbing? Beth pays to get a wedgy.
Local environmentalists have sounded the alarm that it may well be the beginning of an end for the species.
It also tires the body out, prompting it to sleep more soundly. Times, Sunday Times
Caroline heard it she could not help smiling at the word magnanimity, which sounded to her rather too grand for the occasion. Tales and Novels — Volume 07
Whether we take the signified or the signifier, Saussure argues, language has neither ideas nor sounds that existed before the linguistic system, but only conceptual and phonic differences that have issued from the system.
The two-piece brass section added a full and funky sound that helped detract from the sameness and blandness of many of Mayer's songs.
It was purfled about the rim of the soundbox with trapezia of shimmering mother-of-pearl, and it had a black strikeplate in the shape of a clematis flower, inlaid with multicoloured blossoms that were purely the result of an exuberant craftsman's imagination. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Cult mezzo Magdalena Kozena and silvery soprano Carolyn Sampson sound gorgeous, but are on the cool side as Paris and Cupid respectively.
Since my parents both commuted a long way from home, long before the word "playdate" ever existed, I spent most afternoons running from house to house, soaking up the sounds, smells and tastes. Jessica Seinfeld: Reclaiming Family Food
I've been thinking recently about onomatopoeia: the sound words we use to describe actions.
And the images you conjure with "straddling glowing globes and caressing the giant W" makes us sound so freakin 'horny ... oh wait ... nevermind. Blogger Bender - Part II
So I put the guitar on clean, put on the delay effect, and I arpeggiate the chords at the right speed to get this really crazy thumping sound. All Updates @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com
It sounds like a total drudge, to be fair. Times, Sunday Times
It's the King coming and the sound of those who herald him with horns of brass pressed to their mouths.
This sounds like hokum, but it helped my cat immeasurably (by reducing his stress I suppose).
The absence of bowel sounds for a full 5 minutes strongly suggests the existence of intestinal atony or ileus, which has many causes.
Sound is a typical stereo mix for films of this age.
I'm going home tomorrow - hefting heavy sound kit that I didn't use, with bags full of chocolate bars and Swiss liqueurs to give as presents.
Not for them your rustic kitchens and winsome acoustic soundtracks. Times, Sunday Times
The space, surfaces, and materials were coordinated to deliver clear and vibrant sound from unamplified individual instruments and voices.
Despite advances in headphone design, the fact is you are still listening to glorified stereo, where the sounds appear to thump uncomfortably inside your head.
Too often, they were simply bantered around as high-sounding slogans.
Every few minutes a piercing ringing sound could be heard when the inspector examined each alarm.
The image jitters, there is a thump as the sound comes on, and a haggard, hair-covered face fills the frame.
No whimper, nor sound, nor sign of fear, came from Jerry — only choking growls of ferociousness, intermingled with snarls of anger, and a belligerent up-clawing of hind-legs. CHAPTER XVI
Although he had not howled once, his snarling and growling, combined with his thirst, had hoarsened his throat and dried the mucous membranes of his mouth so that he was incapable, except under the sheerest provocation, of further sound. CHAPTER XVI
It sounds like angry metallic bees colliding mid air. The Sun
Enough's enough, Katya," Jerry said, doing his best to sound authoritative. COLDHEART CANYON
Sound symbolism means that we can often guess the meaning of a word from its sound.
The only element of the production that fails to satisfy is the heavily miked, synthesizer-dominated orchestra, which sounds artificial and dead. A 'King' That Is Full of Aces
Never one to shy away from diversity, Watanabe has blended straight jazz with bebop, Latin and even African rhythms in order to create some truly unique sounds.
The noises of men talking and laughing and the sound of champagne corks popping filter out into the corridor.
This sound means naught, by the way. A Time of War
The sound of clattering pots disappeared. Times, Sunday Times
The shop-owner, hoping to raise the price to a round figure, pulled the rickshaw in and out of the shed, folded and unfolded the hood and sounded the horn, singing the vehicle's praises all the time.
It was the sound of milk bottles being dropped into crates and loaded on to lorries.
The sound of crickets chirruping filled the still air.
In his 1982 "Secondary Currents," which is described in the film's title credits as a "film noir," Rose pushes the sound and image concerns of structuralist filmmakers by creating a work that is "imageless": on a black screen, white subtitles translate the gibberish of the unreliable narrator in the voice-over. Baltimore City Paper
On the other hand, if you elect for the more expensive hardware option, much less CPU power is needed and often both the picture and sound quality are greatly improved.
Concorde was the first supersonic passenger jet - capable of flying faster than the speed of sound. Times, Sunday Times
A neighbour reported hearing a thud that sounded like a garbage bag being dropped.
(Hey! at least I know from someone who lived in Japan that miso is pronounced mee-zo with a fuzzy sz sound.) Miso Soup | A Veggie Venture
At around $1,195 it sounds expensive, until you realize your grandchildren will still be using it long after you've turned into dust and are part of the backstop at your local range.
If the abundance of leather, suede, sheepskin and fur heading for our high street fashion stores is anything to go by, the answer is a resounding yes.
The sound of wooden chair legs screeched against the hardwood floors. Christianity Today
Days moved by quickly and pretty soon, Gillian reached her sixth month check up, which this time included an ultrasound.
It was the beautifullest bell she had ever heard, she said, and sounded grand! Hard Times
The choices of main courses were unappealing and didn't taste any better than they sounded.
In this paper, the researchers describe a technique in which nanowires of potassium niobate were synthesized in a special hot water solution and separated using ultrasound. Future for Nano-sized Light Source | Impact Lab
No more fuzzy programmes with muffled sound and colours like confetti in a puddle. The Sun
So when Synova says "And if you think that the Bush administration has been successful *ever* at putting a story out that they want put out then..." the only rational response is a resounding horselaugh. "I hope this gets you fired, you're obviously stupid.... There's plenty of proof 9/11 was an inside job. Try reading, if you know how.....lololol."
What sounded like a stampede of wild rhinoceroses roused her from her sleep.
Relying on their well-established formula of eerie melodies, pastoral soundscapes, babbling children and rhythmic clamour, their sophomore effort rings true.
Faced with the new electric fields introduced by the sound wave, the electrons and holes in the quantum well seek out their respective points of minimum energy in the presence of the fields.
Regardless of whether those pessimistic readings of the debate are correct, and of whether the zombie idea itself is sound or incoherent, it continues to stimulate fruitful work on consciousness, physicalism, phenomenal concepts, and the relations between imaginability, conceivability, and possibility. Zombies
The sound of the human whistle, like that in the most primitive instrumental forms - a whistle fashioned from a hollow tube of wood or straw - is made by the turbulence generated in an airstream at the narrow orifice formed by pursing the lips.
This camera also supports high-speed continuous shooting of images at the maximum 10-MP size (3648 x 2736) at 10 fps, and offers a sport continuous mode, which allows for continuous shooting at up to approximately 120 fps*, and a function for recording high-definition movies with stereo sound. Digital camera reviews, photography news and views
The Scottish foursome sound nicely chilled where they used to be, for better or worse, just plain flaky.
It sounded like a dull roar at first, but now it was nearly deafening.
Years of research led the Mitchells to an ancient musical system called cymatics, or Chladni patterns, which are formed by sound waves at specific pitches. Musicians crack melodic code within Da Vinci chapel
The car's new sound system can easily kick out the high-volume jams with the added noise of driving without a roof.
Often had little Emit heard the sounds at night - sharp sounds that pricked at his ears and his temples.
This is all captured in the toy sax sound that just honks the root note as if someone who can't really play the sax has been given one lesson and one take to give it their best shot.
There are different techniques to get various sounds. The Sun
(Soundbite of music) DAVIES: If you're just joining us, our guest is actor Michael Caine. Michael Caine Reflects On His 'Hollywood' Career
The "aa" means that you hold the vowel sound for two beats as opposed to one. Arabic for Dummies
He has studied and performed jazz from bebop to fusion, played as fluently with hardcore and heavy metal musicians as with soundtrack samples.
These used rotating discs to initiate a quasi-musical sound which was then filtered, processed and reproduced at different pitches.
They sat in a thoughtful moment before a boom of thunder sounded and Jane jumped.
In a pipe organ of quality each pipe is a carefully-designed and individually-voiced musical instrument which produces only one frequency of sound.
The approach to Broad Street was silent but for the sound of a beating drum.
It comes down in favour of a blueprint that for sound political and environmental reasons will prove impossible to realise. Times, Sunday Times
I could faintly hear the sounds of running water somewhere in the building.
Colours Beyond Colours" opens with a Jamaican-sounding speaker ostensibly describing the supersensory effects of LSD, and then segueing into a cod-'60s-didactic announcement about the electromagnetic spectrum. PopMatters
Pettin's men surged up the steps at them, weapons flashing in the guttery light; Del's screaming, shrill as an angry hawk's, stabbed through Joanna's panic like the senseless sounds of nightmare. The Silicon Mage
‘Mäander’ is an incredible, multi-layered sound world of 4 or 5 layers of clarinets that is atonal, arrhythmic, ominous, and funereal.
This sounds on the face of it a strong argument, but it is unlikely to carry any practical weight.
Part of me thinks this sounds completely immoral; part of me thinks it sounds horribly thrilling.
To make your life a sound structrure that will serve others and fulfil your own potential, you have to remember that strength, however massive , can't endure unless it has the interlocking supprt of others. Go it alone and you'll inevitably tumble.
I had a quick flip through my cookery books and found a recipe that sounded quite nice.
Portsmouth's chimes sound ominously like a funeral march. Times, Sunday Times
I am now convinced that although he is unsound in his views there are not sufficient grounds for proceeding against him.
`You've been an angel," said DeDe, sounding oddly like a clubwoman from the peninsula. FURTHER TALES OF THE CITY
Perhaps strangest of all, the American troops brought in their own "psyops" trucks - for psychological operations - and blared sounds that created a nightmarish duet with the mosques: old AC/DC songs, something that sounded like a sonar ping, the cavalry charge. Archive 2004-11-01
I've had some luck getting laid with AdultFriendFinder (it sounds so much sketchier than it actually is, I promise), but if that's not what you're looking for, then stay away. Ask Professor Foxy: Does My Size and Not Flirting Keep Me Alone? - Feministing
The one quote that strikes me as quite unsound is the one at the very end, though of course it's always impossible to tell if some relevant context might have been inadvertently cut in the editing.
The sounds of the phoney election war are already dimly audible. Times, Sunday Times
Although the complex syncopated rhythms of duets can sound to the untrained ear as if they are coming from one bird, they are the efforts of two wrens perched side by side and interposing their notes with precise timing.
Also, please keep in mind that in order to conceal my identity I'm speaking through a harmonizer--in reality my voice sounds exactly like Keith David's. Keeping it Reeled In: Hope or Delusion?
The keel is a centreboard but not weighted; the ballast is in the hull itself (which sounds inefficient but actually works surprisingly well).
The air around the hill of Knocknashee is responding to the sound of music these days and nights.
A good arrangement should sound as though it were an original conception, and not an arrangement at all.
The sound of the theme tune can bring me out in recovered acne syndrome to this day. Times, Sunday Times
Her breathing sounded more like hyperventilating as she paced back and forth.
Dolphins use sound to communicate with each other.
Suddenly the silence was interrupted by the sound of arrows whizzing and striking soft objects.
A boring-sounding penne dish, tossed with crisped bits of pancetta (the unsmoked Italian bacon) and a basil-flecked cream sauce, turns out to hold interest down to the last bite.
The keening sound of the upper strings provides a lasting memorial for those departed.
I took out the tuner, and began tuning it just a smidge sharp, because I like the sound of it better that way.
Is he sound on state education?
Directing my own video-montage, I start mentally overdubbing the soundtrack.
Heddle's argument is more sound since it involves, in practical terms, one single probability, while Collins's use of the word "improbability" implies multiple values of probabilities that can be used and thus a means to calculate them. David Heddle's take on the Fine-Tuning Argument
Fascinating and enhanced with a great soundtrack, this DVD is affordably priced and suited to many viewings.
I couldn't hear anything except our screams, which ricocheted off the houses and sounded in my ears.
In musical concretism, a material or concrete sound is one which reveals its affinity to the source of the sound.
An attempt to capture as much sound from a piano as possible.
A detailed list of specific sounds is often compiled in pre-production but once filming starts it is important for the sound recordist (also known as the location mixer) to stay on their toes and capture any audio that may be required later.
It is difficult and unreasonable to separate the soundtrack from the film; they are symbiotic.
If you switch the words over, the sentence sounds better.
He learned to recognize pneumonia, bronchiectasis, pleurisy, emphysema, pneumothorax, phthisis, and other lung diseases from the sounds he heard with his stethoscope.
We are eager to sound off at the approach of anybody with a clipboard. Times, Sunday Times
The heart and lungs sounded normal on auscultation.
He could only envy the more galactically sophisticated Deyzara his perfect terranglo that in some ways sounded more polished than that of the administrator herself. Drowning World
And yet they just don't sound all that druggy to me.
At first this sounds ridiculous, indeed unserious.
Although heavily cut and in indifferent mono sound, Maria Callas' version is undisputedly a classic.
At the prayer conference, warm applause greeted Hurwitz's announcement that she might be getting the title rabbi "but with a slightly distinct sound. Undefined
In the fields outside of Darik, the pure sound of two clashing swords rang out.
We rode into the clearing and the sound of the river rushing seemed almost unreal.
Pete sounded muffled. and as he turned Marcus noticed that he too had a loose thread on his shirt.
And then the bassos smote the air with deep sounds: The Man Who Was Afraid
Some definitions were more high-sounding than accurate.
The clanking sounded systematic somehow; not rhythmic like a drumbeat in music, yet purposeful.
Rivalry is a groundswell word, suggesting turbulence by its very sound.
One such is the following chart, which can be used to devise typical bureaucratic phrases that sound impressive but mean nothing.
You can really capture the sound of the room. The Sun
The sound of something clinking loudly against metal jolted Chandra out of her thoughts and she looked up quickly.
The twang of a guitar string resounded periodically, but never a song.
To a soundtrack of cooking tips, paedophilia newsflashes and outtakes from the film Brief Encounter, she tries to seduce a stuffed tiger, intercutting her swaying flamenco with mad, petulant little flounces. Alonzo King Lines Ballet; Retina dance company, Collisions, Juliet Aster
At the same moment, through the pillars of the Temple of Amor, the sound of a dulcian, a clarino and a theorbo could be heard. Archive 2009-03-01
The evidence needed for sound policymaking should thus be much more comprehensive than attempts to extrapolate dubious principles from the findings of controlled trials.
The death knell could also be sounded for other species dependent on the ice, such as the ringed seal, bearded seal and little auk.
Her idea is sound in principle.
He was muttering incessantly to himself, as if delighted at having found his tongue, his head swaying on his shoulders, and a strange murmur, soft, birdlike, meaningless, like sounds heard from a vast distance, coming from his wide-open mouth. Vandover and the Brute
We're journeying in the psychological borderlands of music, and what you bring with you in your head and your heart, as well as how you listen, may affect your perception of these experimental sounds.
Patience and dedication may not sound exciting but earn you a place on a work team. The Sun
The world can only hope that he chooses to listen to sound advice and govern with the benefit of knowledge. Times, Sunday Times
That said, they are still out to pummel, and their singer's caterwaul has never sounded more throat-shredding.

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