Words similar to noises

Example sentences for: noises

How can you use “noises” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Like paying lip service , making all the right noises possesses just enough color to be memorable and yet not so much color as to cloy.
All we can say is that Microsoft has made all the right noises on this subject, and we look forward to putting the company's hands-off commitment to the test.
If credibility were such a fragile commodity, we wouldn't have needed the Reagan buildup after the Russians blinked during the Cuban Missile Crisis, or in 1973 when they made noises about helping the Arabs in the Yom Kippur war and then backed down.
Perhaps I was thinking of car repairs, for the engine had been making odd noises.
It surely evolved from earlier use in more literal, straightforward contexts (for instance, to describe the sound of an automobile engine or a musical performance) and ultimately from the long-established and nonjudgmental phrase to make noises (that is, to express oneself about something), a construction that happily accommodates all manner of adjectival prefixes.