Example sentences for: sounding

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

  • But 30 minutes later, Morris called on his way to church (it was Good Friday), sounding contrite and saying that he would "back off" and would call at 2:30 to talk.

  • Compassionate sounding ideas do not always pan out; it's good to look at the evidence and be willing to change your mind if necessary.

  • In the late 1980s and early 1990s, baseball cards exploded into a classic speculative bubble--there I go, sounding like the old Alan Greenspan--to which companies responded by producing too many cards that were too expensive.

  • It said the case recalls "the most sinister practices of the Soviet Union" because Nikitin has suffered intimidation, police harassment, and many other abuses instead of being decorated by the Russian state for sounding the alarm about dangerous radiation levels.

  • Marshall (Harve Presnell, sounding like Bob Dole) has ordered it out of a Lincolnesque compassion for all the families ripped apart by war.


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