sounding

Example Sentences

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A couple of years ago, comedian Jack Finnegan joked that Kiedis writes some of the most beautiful choruses in the world, only to flip into sounding like he’s experiencing a medical emergency during his verses.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2026

He quickly abandoned his notes after being criticised for sounding stilted, and started speaking "from the heart", he told me in an interview earlier this year.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

Bahrain's interior ministry reported sirens sounding in the country and told residents to head "to the nearest safe place", without providing further details.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

“Input costs are significantly higher, crop prices are not,” CEO Svein Tore Holsether said, sounding the alarm about how the war could affect the food supply chain.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

During one futile counterattack, “the French infantry made a gallant show, advancing across the Belgian beet fields with colors unfurled and bugles sounding the shrill notes of the ‘charge.’

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman