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
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.
Some definitions were more high-sounding than accurate.
The contents of her backpack spilled out, many items breaking with a resounding crash as a result.
Here he pauses, then continues, sounding like a cook admitting that a recipe is deceptively simple.
We have a selection panel and we would take soundings from the leader of the team. Times, Sunday Times
For an album so reflective of a certain musical style and sound, The Good Feeling Music of Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele manages to contemporise itself without sounding ridiculous. Drowned In Sound // Feed
The 44-year-old leader has reportedly been taking soundings from party grandees over his strategy for the election and the referendum on the European constitution, which is likely to follow soon afterwards.
So it's mildly surprising to hear the axeman sounding like some gentle bod who works at your local guitar shop. Times, Sunday Times
But as knowledge of wave motions developed and the laws of governing them were better understood, the receiver was "tuned" to respond to the transmitter, that is, the transmitter was made to set up a definite rate of vibrations in the ether and the receiver made to respond to this rate, just like two tuning forks sounding the same note. Marvels of Modern Science
Both tracks are fine, the 4.0 track sounding a bit richer than the 2.0.
According to the MSM reports here and here the French crew, of a ship with the very Italian sounding name MSC Napoli, deliberately run aground close to Sidmouth, 165 miles southwest of London. Archive 2007-01-01
This innocent-sounding question has stumped mathematicians from Cantor's time to the present.
After a few second, he heard a resounding smack and a thud as Valshar obviously hit the wall.
The fiercest opposition she faced came from battling a runny nose that left her sounding full of cold. The Sun
After Amber's palm made contact with Jackie's face, sounding off a loud smack through the area, Jackie fell to the ground from the force.
I remain honored to have had a long poem of mine that I really wanted published SOMEWHERE to wind up getting published in the CLIFFS Soundings Iit/art mag Norbert Blei mentioned in his essay on Henry Denander. Henry denander | 6 poems on writing, writers, fatherhood, marriage, jazz, jazz musicians, fame & much more « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
Government broadcasting policy has always been surrounded by high-sounding rhetoric, but the need to ensure financial viability while filling the programming needs of a voracious medium has always been the basic driver of TV practice.
She plumped herself on the couch, looking and sounding exhausted.
Forgive me sounding preachy but the character in our neighbourhoods, heritage and iconic landscape will be utterly lost.
It is full of grand statements and fine sounding but vague promises to assist working people and the poor.
The management is sounding out options for the German retail bank and is not in a hurry to reach a decision.
From the kitchen, she could hear peals of laughter sounding where Robert, the butler, was doubtless entertaining her younger siblings.
In this ice-sounding, noise similizes the assault: swound is a ghost of sound, Sounding Romantic: The Sound of Sound
The changeover to the euro has been a resounding success for those countries and their citizens.
‘Roger, roger,’ Lily replied, just as distant-sounding as ever.
It was sounding like a scratched holodisc right now and smoke was fuming out of it's light receptor.
It's set in the corner of the stairwell, made of cheap and rather hollow-sounding wood, and could do with a lick of paint.
The bell rang loudly, sounding the beginning of the first period, geography class.
[362-7] A clarion is a loud, clear-sounding trumpet. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6
It is my total albeit, naive-sounding, to nihilists masquerading as realists belief that there is remedy to this incident; the Iranian government can make this happen without appearing to have equivocated, and frankly, without appearing as anomalous in their imprisonment of artists, because again, history is far too rife with such instances, the world over. Michael Vazquez: On The Imprisonment of Iranian Filmmakers: A Moral Option For Iran and Any Government Presuming to Silence Its Artists
Before he could find one a horn blew somewhere sounding the approach of dawn.
Paz has an interesting sounding salad with arugula, and another newcome, Pille from Nami Nami has a great sounding gratin with arugula, feta, and tomatoes. Weekend Herb Blogging Year in Review: Weeks 1-10
An ecolodge only accessible by plane and boat (they'll pick you up from Cairns airport), with just 17 rooms, it's tucked in the rainforest, overlooking the dreary-sounding but wonderful - looking Weary Bay.
Graham is still swotting up on bicycles and has got to the stage where he's constantly muttering technical-sounding buzzwords.
The repetitive lo-fi production leaves it sounding a bit small. The Sun
ROBERTS: Turning now to the economy, President Obama sounding a familiar theme these days once again taking a somewhat mutedly optimistic tone in his speech yesterday at Georgetown University. CNN Transcript Apr 15, 2009
A stern, deep voice which utters an egotistical inanity is still stern and deep (deep sounding, anyway). The Volokh Conspiracy » Remembering Justice Stevens as a Boss
Yes, Master, " she said, and then, turning about, stumbling and crying, the bell of the Coin Girl sounding, the coins jingling in the box on her neck, she fled up the street. Guardsman Of Gor
That would be a dire outcome considering Sunday's resounding victory for democracy. Times, Sunday Times
The many gunshots in the film are about as underwhelming as I've ever heard even in low budget indie efforts, sounding like little quiet pops instead of loud bangs.
Held at the Auction Mart, the event has been hailed a resounding success.
She could hear the thud of her own heartbeat sounding heavily in her ears.
It was a hoarse, awful, prolonged bellow, as of some giant ox in sore distress, and when it would stop, occasionally, faint and far would come another bellow, mellowed by distance, but sounding unspeakably eerie and frightsome. All Aboard A Story for Girls
With the curtain about to go up on the WTO Ministerial Conference in Cancún, there will be plenty of high-sounding statements calling for a successful outcome.
Birth control was one of the resounding policy successes of the last quarter of the last century. Times, Sunday Times
Mr. O'Brien makes a brave leap in the dark and lands with a resounding thud.
I'd seen him check it once, seeing if it was empty enough to pick up without straining himself and still full enough to make a resounding crunch and splash as the top came off.
She was just a little offended by the implications in his words and was suddenly bored with his arrogance and decided to get rid all the noble-sounding, diplomatic and politic speeches.
It was resounding like an organ pipe, strongly enough to rattle windows.
My blood beat in my ears, sounding out the Name of God, while a different name throbbed in my pulse. Kushiel's Avatar
The loud, resounding sound unnerved the monkeys and they bolted from the scene.
I remember hearing the bus driver sounding his horn as if he was angry.
The Titian exhibition is judged a resounding success but it is just one of an enormous range of substantial and enjoyable shows in the city.
Of course, many will feel scruples about criticising others for how they spend their money out of fear of sounding hypocritical. Times, Sunday Times
Despite the Japanese-sounding name and the sushi-bar look and logo, everything at Òbikà is Italian, and the cheese is trucked from the mozzarella homeland, south of Rome. Cheese Balls
He needed a sounding board rather than thinking alone.
If the collaboration was designed as an experiment, it was a resounding success.
The whistles on trains are called chimes, usually sounding a diminished 7th so as not to seem cheerful. "You see, their young enter through the ears and wrap themselves around the cerebral cortex."
From the public call box he got beyond the snotty sounding WAAF at the switchboard. THE OPEN DOOR
Give me a position, and I'll find you an expert to support it - and not just an expert but one with an institutional affiliation sounding so dignified it could make a nobleman genuflect.
When we're at the end of the track after a run, the neatest-sounding car is still a blown-alcohol dragster.
The rock struck the center of the tree trunk with a resounding ping.
'personation' -- it was a mask and a sounding-pipe. The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2
And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy. Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report
She was merely sounding him out to see if he was interested in her.
On the evidence here presented, the answer would appear to be a resounding ‘no’.
Once it was called Talbot House though the resounding name belies the small bright dwelling wedged into the row which supports it. WHISTLER IN THE DARK
Of course, many will feel scruples about criticising others for how they spend their money out of fear of sounding hypocritical. Times, Sunday Times
Big Mike whose real name is a Frenchie sounding Michel Lapointe aged 37, was in prison for conspiracy, drug trafficking and gangsterism in other words the bloke is a thug. Old Bitter Balls
The decadent sounding "chocolatey delight" flavor, not only has the same amount of sugar and high fructose corn syrup as Lucky Charms but also includes "chocolatey" bits - so called because there is no actual anti-oxidant bearing chocolate in them. Charlotte Hilton Andersen: I Hate Special K
He has already said he is taking soundings from colleagues on whether or not to stand.
By any measure it appears to have been a resounding success. Times, Sunday Times
Last week he tackled the thorny issue of pensions in front of a group of retired folk with the use of cardboard slides to illustrate his points, looking and sounding more like a plodding professor than the next president.
The work artfully juxtaposes two complex, quasi-symphonic percussion instruments piano and gamelan ensemble, East and West each making fluent-sounding attempts at adopting the accent of the other, with the piano's unusual tuning giving a quirky tinge to its tones, a slight acridity to would-be octaves. Music review: Post-Classical Ensemble recognizes the work of Lou Harrison
Publicly, the Europeans have been following the script – "a good night's kip and then go out there and give it to them," said the normally mild-mannered Ross Fisher, sounding more like Paulie Gualtieri from the Sopranos than Clark Kent – but behind the scenes they have been in awe of the way Montgomerie has comported himself this week. Ryder Cup 2010: Colin Montgomerie uses dark arts to steel European team
The car's horn honked a few times, seemingly sounding a cavalry call.
Shortly after, when the calm evening was dressed in all the gorgeous colours of a southern sunset, and whilst the military calls were sounding those stirring notes he loved to hear, my good horse was lowered to his rest among the nautili and wondrous seaflowers which floated round the ship. Journal Kept During The Russian War: From The Departure Of The Army From England In April 1854, To The Fall Of Sebastopol
After losing the game, Coach Saylor came to the press conference looking and sounding emotionally drained.
Peter laughed, his voice sounding harsh and ugly, and his mouth twisted into a sardonic sneer.
At that moment there came a peal of horns that echoed resoundingly.
Despite the resounding rejection of the European Constitution by French and Dutch voters, the fact is, old Europe still genuflects at the altar of socialism and collectivism.
It is no coincidence that superclusters of galaxies are roughly of this size; they result from this resounding cosmic fanfare.
He has put in every effort to ensure that the event billed the ‘Dame Mary Peters Weekend’ is a resounding success.
It had come out sounding like all the demons from hell, screaming in pain at the same time because someone had stoked the coals burning beneath their squirming pustular bodies. Zombies vs. Unicorns
I know I'm sounding like some kid having a paddy but my point still stands.
But although I took soundings from friends and peers, in the end I just followed my gut feeling and did what I thought felt right.
A resounding cheer echoed through the ship as the captain's words spread.
This song started off sounding rather wistful and unobtrusive, but then grew into a psychedelic swirl of beats, voice and guitar that became completely captivating.
Hi Nitin - heh - actually my "mathematical" theorem was just a joke, authentic-sounding mathematical babble. Toward a unified theory of social networks
Mrs. Anders had insisted on pronouncing "borscht" the way it was spelled, sounding out the silent "t," and no matter how often he said it correctly, she refused to vary her pronunciation. The Town
Lifted from their debut EP, this minimalistic yet charmingly whimsical slice of lo-fi alt-folk opens with nought but a lone slappy bass riff and jerky surreal prose, before blossoming out into a cacophony of wondrous twangy noises, and ends up sounding like Badly Drawn Boy, Sufjan Stevens and a parliament of owls caught up in a weird feathery, beardy group hug, happily tumbling down an upwards escalator in slow motion. This week's new singles
Our first family holiday was a resounding success for all. The Sun
I was similarly uncharmed by the promising sounding mini ice-cream sandwiches, which seemed overembellished and not freshly made.
Four landers will explore for subsurface liquid water using a novel low-frequency sounding method.
The verdict A resounding thumbs down. Times, Sunday Times
She's always sounding off about too much sex in the media.
… resounding silence …. same old crap, first from film makers who want us to believe that a female in heels is a good idea as token fuck-pot./superhero. and then from the spewdo-intellectual wankers who cover the bullshit with their ersatz gravitas. The Moral Exemplars of Watchmen | Heretical Ideas Magazine
The machine clicked off with a resounding beep, and the room rang with silence.
The trumpet-blasts of Wagram were still sounding an echo in the heart of the Austrian monarchy. Domestic Peace
The jocular expression of an approaching dangerous social situation is often conveyed by people sounding out its ominous low-pitched glissando quavers. Archive 2010-04-01
As a result, the junta's party swept to a predictably resounding victory. Times, Sunday Times
Yet it is worth sounding a note of caution. Times, Sunday Times
The haunting Sounding depicting rays of sunlight through thunderous clouds is the stand-out piece of the whole exhibition.
One of the women dived into the pool with a resounding splash. THE IMAGE OF LAURA
Chairman of the Mid-Hants Watercress Line, David Snow, dressed as a spiv for the occasion, said the weekend was a resounding success with the first day attracting bigger crowds than last year.
It's hard enough for most British bands to capture that roots vibe without sounding phoney or just plain ridiculous, but they pull it off and keep their own unique character too.
May one say that this is so without sounding hopelessly snobbish?
On the plus side, it's the most "pulpy" sounding title of any of the movies, which is a good thing. Indiana Jones and the...
It also is the least atonal-sounding movement and will likely appeal even to those of fairly conservative tastes.
She stumbled out of the way just as she heard the voice, sounding quite irritated.
Although sclerosing adenosis, apocrine metaplasia, duct ectasia, lipoma, fat necrosis, and mastitis are scary sounding, they aren't serious and do not increase risk of breast cancer. Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
`I'd say - going by my soundings - that they'll be split down the middle. POLITICAL SUICIDE
Recently, a free pool party was held for eight - to 16-year-olds and proved a resounding success, with 70 children attending.
But there was a cough, and the breathing of the huge hound stopped, and then a breathy whisper came, hoarse, and sounding just as a dog would sound if dogs could talk.
The European Union, from its beginnings as an experiment in statecraft, has rapidly emerged as a resounding success; yet Americans have so far managed to ignore the geopolitical revolution under way across the Atlantic. Archive 2005-03-13
Hence the $6.99 chicken shawarma at LZ, which is the cheapest (and probably most familiar-sounding) item on the menu, and therefore a tempting choice for the lazy or un-curious eater. Undefined
When I just go ahead and speak my mind, inevitably it comes out sounding like I am an insensitive, unsympathetic rationalist.
The fiercest opposition she faced came from battling a runny nose that left her sounding full of cold. The Sun
It beeped and whirred to life, the hard-drive sounding its soft purr as it accessed the system files needed to rouse the little giant.
Finally someone is sounding out the grouses of the general public on the papers regarding the ridiculously expensive cost of things out there.
However, such enormous-sounding figures have to be set against the giant size of the American economy.
For example, Crambo is of extraordinary use to good rhyming, and rhyming is what I have ever accounted the very essential of a good poet: And in that notion I am not singular; for the aforesaid Sir Philip Sidney has declared, That the chief life of modern versifying, consisteth in the like sounding of words, which we call rhyme, which is an authority, either without exception, or above any reply. A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet
In the opening cue, he employs it in just about the most inventive way imaginable: a tuba plays the theme, sounding both sinister and comical.
Usually, the drift distance increases with the rising of the sounding balloon.
Besides offering run-of-the mill pub grub such as fish and chips, the updated menus promised to tantalise taste buds with some more exotic-sounding fare such as black olive bruschetta and charred cod, burnt lemon and Chardonnay risotto.
The postman is used to delivering mysterious parcels, packets and letters to the old ranch house, mostly from faraway places with strange sounding names.
On the basis of the data acquired by sounding balloon, the influence of the atmospheric model on the calculation of atmospheric refraction was discussed.
And through all this floated the flutey cries of the bagpipe, muffled by the woods but sounding the way the moon would if it could call down to the earth. The Queen of Everything
He has taken a noble and high-sounding Fijian name and dragged it in the dirt to suit his nefarious purposes. THE FEATHERS OF THE SUN
However it is understood they plan to put that right and have been taking soundings in various parts of the county over the past number of weeks with a view to running candidates.
With an annoyed sounding harrumph, Alissa stalked away from John and flopped angrily down on the ground next to a large tree.
I tried to emphasize my good points without sounding boastful.
You can talk confidently without sounding conceited and make it clear that you can handle a work task or personal project. The Sun
The western colonnade, which is by far the best preserved, has been examined by two trenches, while in 2006 a sounding within the shops behind the actual colonnade was executed. Interactive Dig Sagalassos - N-S Colonnaded Street Report 2
In response, their debut single for the major was a playful, painful cover of Al Green's ‘L.O.V.E. Love’ which featured a tortured sounding man trying to hit the high notes like an alley cat mewling on a fence.
You talk with confidence without sounding conceited and can handle officials well. The Sun
The terrible music alternates between sounding hollow, tinny, and shrill.
He took us first to see his docks and godowns, resounding with the loud clangors of trade, and then through the grassy Kow-Loon plains, by a wide red road shadowed with banana-trees, to this lordly pavilion set on the crest of many flowering terraces – its pale-yellow outlines cut cameo-like against the burning blue of the equatorial sky. In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World
And you can talk up your skills without sounding conceited. The Sun
They chant in a deep harmonic, which can be heard sounding three octaves at once during stages in the ritual.
If you have this developing episcopacy, that's just the Greek sort of sounding word for bishop or bishopric or something like that.
The car was flashing its lights and sounding the horn.
sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal
I thundered, my voice sounding angrier than I had meant it to.
The challenge, as always, was how to name the problem without sounding like a crybaby or jinxing all future job prospects.
When springtime comes, it doesn't come with banners and with the rolling of drums and the sounding of trumpets. Christianity Today
A gurgle, sounding very similar to a laugh, replaced her cries, and a smile graced her face as Trent picked her up.
There was a resounding slap as Andrew struck him violently across the face.
She had the slightest hint of a lisp, and so the last word came out of her mouth sounding like ‘thresses.’
No wonder voices are sounding an alarm that something has to give. Times, Sunday Times
The spiccato parts were great, but most of the work ended up sounding like someone driving a car stepping on and off the accelerator.
The gruffness took on a softer tone, sounding almost sympathetic.
Then, there was an important-sounding fanfare, and a mellifluous announcer introduced the first Guest of Honour talk.
This is a garden-variety malapropism, substituting compulsion for the similar-sounding word compunction, though the meanings are radically different.
Alex's voice held a strained edge, sounding as if it would break any minute.
But sound is a stroke of a sounding body; and a sounding body is that which has homogeneousness and uniformity, and is easy to be moved, light, smooth, and, by reason of its tenseness and continuity, it is obedient to the stroke; and such is the air. Essays and Miscellanies
They started as a three-piece playing pop-punk cover versions alongside similar-sounding original material.
It is surprising how many people start sounding off about something without really deciding what they think about it.
He asked, then mentally kicked himself for sounding so lame.
When the villagers were asked if they wanted the factory to be built, the answer was a resounding yes.
I think it an attempt to contain lushness in minimalism, something resounding loudly in Woff's new piece (yes, I will blog about it). Galleon trade edition
Deep soundings above 6 fathoms (11 m) were impracticable so the practice then was to sound the depth using a line and lead.
When I tell Jose this, he laughs and says of my mother (imitating and sounding just like my grandmother): "Your mother's loony as a jaybird. A Swallow of Cola
Most tend to begin by either drawing gentle curves or straight lines on the daisyphone, creating rising or falling note progressions or a stark-sounding chords respectively.
When the villagers were asked if they wanted the factory to be built, the answer was a resounding yes.
The question was answered with a resounding yes.
Last night's resounding victory over Birmingham City has virtually assured them of promotion.
There was an arrangement of Coltrane's "Moment's Notice" with Chestnut spinning droplets of notes over the percussive chuff of the violins and the bass-like thumping of the cello; a joyous rendition of Clapton's "Crossroads"; and Marshall's bass mandolin, down-home-sounding version of "Gator Strut. In performance: Turtle Island Quartet at 25
Welcomed by the sounding of a conch horn, the boat pulls up on the beach which Jimmy explains was a shipment point for sugar and other produce from the estates taking up the bulk of the valley - now collectively called Union Vale Estate.
Which reminds me, Magnus went on, sounding stiffand Clary had never heard him sound stiff beforethat Im not exactly sure what it is you think youre doing, calling on me every time one of you has so much as an ingrown toenail that needs clipping. Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series
It has left presidential aides sounding more than usually optimistic. Times, Sunday Times
The menu has a good selection of Italian staples, including seafood pasta and pizza, spaghetti carbonara, plain calzone and the tasty-sounding calzone kiev with chicken, mushroom and garlic.
They (like the Tewa Pueblo dancers) wore traditional clothing; they enacted their story to eerie-sounding didjeridu music, miming the ancient murder and rebirth of a hero.
Nuuk is rich with undertones, tidal washes, deep swathes of velvet mezzotint, patient soundings, submarinal echoes.
Metal hit metal, the clashes resounding again through the wide plains.
There is a small, peaceful valley in Upper Brookfield where the creek still runs clear, the rainforest overhangs the creek and the whipbirds call to their mates with a long, resounding crack.
You could probably even sneak in your revolutionary politics without sounding didactic and patronizing.
A source said that it would'take soundings from investors over the weekend '. Times, Sunday Times
I've taken soundings from lawyers. The Sun
In this business he proceeds very heedfully, like a treasure-hunter in some old house, sounding the walls to find where the gold is masoned in. Moby Dick; or the Whale
The four of us mocked the commercials and trailers resoundingly, and I made the odd snide remark to Ben that I heard my other companion laughing at.
It is, by any standards, a resounding success story for this country. Times, Sunday Times
West African guitar phenom Lionel Loueke sits in on a few tracks and adds a funky, polyrhythmic feel to "A New World," proving that Blanchard can stretch into cousinly genres without sounding like he's speaking down to his audience. Terence Blanchard: Free Will And 'Choices'
Four decades later, that music still holds sway, sounding its plaintive strains of influence, some kind of persisting technicolor musica sacra that makes an appearance, now and then, in my poet's head as I compose. Michele Somerville: A Kitten Mother's Hymn to Chinese Parenting
sounding like a full cortege had just gone past, horse-drawn hearse, the lot. NIGHT SISTERS
Mankind to-day has had more than enough of high-sounding principles and beautiful declarations.
Though they are skulkers, they ‘sing’ in a constant chatter or mew, sounding rather like a cat, alerting one to their presence.
His muse, whilst sounding thin and mean vocally, comes to life through her guitar.
And that is why the answer to that question must be a resounding "no'. THE DOG LISTENER: Learning the Language of your Best Friend

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