sound
Example Sentences
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"And I know that sounds intimidating, but there is no point in fighting it now."
From BBC
At a BBC roundtable of local business leaders last week, the messages sounded like a different era and a different country to much of what we hear.
From BBC
In the mind's eye you could imagine him stretched out on a couch with the sound of gently lapping water playing in his ears.
From BBC
But he turns up the volume on his rich voice so high, and so consistently, that Shakespeare’s verse comes across like the sound of a jackhammer without an off switch.
In 1877, Berliner, then working with Edison, created the first “telephone voice transmitter,” a device that used a vibrating metal diaphragm to convert sound waves into electrical signals for transmission over telephone lines.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
