unsounded

Example Sentences

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In its closing moments, breaths pass unsounded through brass instruments, lightly resonating through their forms.

From Washington Post • Aug. 12, 2022

When they noticed that many shallow earthquakes came from under it, they searched seismograph records for similar earthquake centers in unsounded parts of the oceans.

From Time Magazine Archive

In that moment of trivial misunderstanding and profound insight, I felt my throat twisted by unsounded grief.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

Now these vestigial structures are, as Darwin said, like the unsounded, i.e. functionless, letters in words, such as the o in "leopard," the b in "doubt," the g in "reign."

From The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told by Thomson, J. Arthur

Organs, rudimentary, comparison of, with unsounded letters in words,  208.

From Charles Darwin: His Life in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters by Darwin, Charles