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sounding

[ UK /sˈa‍ʊndɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈsaʊndɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the act of measuring depth of water (usually with a sounding line)
  2. a measure of the depth of water taken with a sounding line
ADJECTIVE
  1. making or having a sound as specified; used as a combining form
    harsh-sounding
  2. appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining forms
    taken in by high-sounding talk
    liquid-looking
    severe-looking policemen on noble horses
    left their clothes dirty looking
    fine-sounding phrases
    a most disagreeable looking character
    angry-looking
  3. having volume or deepness
    the sounding cataract haunted me like a passion
    sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal
    sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal
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How To Use sounding In A Sentence

  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • ‘No Clymer, I want you to try serving underhand,’ Mrs. Toth said, sounding exasperated.
  • A subsequent kerfuffle (rather drawn out) sounding not unlike a fist fight interspersed with successive shards of glass falling. BEHINDLINGS
  • Too often, they were simply bantered around as high-sounding slogans.
  • 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.
  • 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."
  • 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
  • `You've been an angel," said DeDe, sounding oddly like a clubwoman from the peninsula. FURTHER TALES OF THE CITY
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