Example sentences for: sounded

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

  • Perhaps Old English sounded something like that.

  • Among other things, the piece says that President Johnson (and President Kennedy before him) sounded out the Soviet Union on heading off China's nuclear capabilities, but the Soviet Union flatly ignored the overtures.

  • Germans who wanted to translate their word interessanterweise into English tried “interestingly,” which in those days sounded horrible to British ears; but the Americans at once pounced on it.

  • The cannon sounded again for the 1918 Armistice and the funeral of Marshal Foch in 1929.

  • Like many people, I was baffled when I first read his poems in high-school anthologies: "The Emperor of Ice-Cream" sounded like antique mumbo jumbo in comparison with the up-to-the-minute adolescent angst of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."


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