How to Use sounding in a Sentence

sounding

1 of 2 adjective
  • Perhaps the bride's name is the more appealing sounding name of the two.
    — Carrie Goldberg, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Sometimes they are asked to name the opera from which a familiar-sounding melody of an aria has been taken.
    — James Barron, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2019
  • Now, despite the similar sounding name, a tomatillo is not, in fact, a tomato.
    — Paul Stephen, ExpressNews.com, 7 Aug. 2019
  • Google showed the audience of coders some demonstrations of the new male and female sounding voices.
    — Jonathan Vanian, Fortune, 8 May 2018
  • Each chapter of the book is devoted to a specific, somewhat strange-sounding rule.
    — Zack Beauchamp, Vox, 21 May 2018
  • The next most frequent factor was a person having a Muslim-sounding name.
    — Jaweed Kaleem, latimes.com, 9 May 2017
  • But some Braves fans were holding out hope the corporate-sounding name wouldn't adorn the stadium.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Despite their scary sounding name, the 2-feet-long walking sharks don't pose a threat to humans, Dudgeon said.
    — Fox News, 23 Jan. 2020
  • On top of being doppelgangers, the other man had the similar-sounding name of Rick.
    — Mary Emily O'Hara, NBC News, 12 June 2017
  • This brings us to a creepy-sounding update to the company’s privacy policy that made headlines this week.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 4 June 2021
  • Still, typhus is a scary-sounding disease that can actually be pretty tricky to diagnose.
    — Sarah Klein, Health.com, 31 Oct. 2019
  • The worker dissatisfaction has spilled out across threads on internal sounding boards, the people said.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Oct. 2019
  • The scheme always starts with a sweet-sounding premise that is totally asinine but that everyone agrees to pretend is a self-evident truth.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 3 Apr. 2021
  • Plus, that same year, David and Victoria Beckham gave their son a similar-sounding name, Cruz.
    — Megan Friedman, Country Living, 25 June 2018
  • That is what happens every time anyone who carries a seemingly Muslim-sounding name is accused of a negative act.
    — H.a. Hellyer, Time, 30 May 2018
  • This teaser video opens like the latest Ken Block Gymkhana, replete with ignition and speedo shots, as well as that mean sounding exhaust.
    — Timothy Dahl, Popular Mechanics, 6 July 2018
  • But at the end of the day, regulatory decisions aren’t made on nice-sounding words from a likable CEO.
    — Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2019
  • Despite its cheery sounding name, Magnolia Estates produces few blossoms.
    — Ted Jackson, NOLA.com, 13 Aug. 2017
  • His company isn’t even the only Chinese operator to share a similar-sounding name.
    — Bloomberg.com, 22 May 2017
  • While many of the products have similar-sounding names, their underlying holdings or indexes and their hedging mechanisms can vary.
    — Ari I. Weinberg, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2018
  • Perhaps the most unusual is caused by the Lone Star tick, which — despite its Texas-sounding name, is found mainly in the Southeast.
    — Washington Post, 5 July 2017
  • Third, there will always be people with impressive credentials to offer smart-sounding justifications for why this debt binge isn’t dangerous like all the others.
    — Michael Schuman, Bloomberg.com, 29 June 2017
  • Opponents of gun rights try to come up with scary sounding phrases like 'assault weapons,' 'military-style weapons' and 'high capacity magazines' to confuse people.
    — Time, 4 Oct. 2017
  • Six months of piano lessons can heighten kindergartners' brain responses to different pitches, and improve their ability to tell apart two similar-sounding words.
    — Christopher Intagliata, Scientific American, 26 June 2018
  • The very subject of the movie is a failure to listen—and the price that the uneducated person pays by being vulnerable to flashy-sounding but flimsy ideologies.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2020
  • The group’s simple-sounding but highly sophisticated songs have endured since the group, consisting of two married couples, split amid the breakup of the two couples in 1982.
    — Jem Aswad, Variety, 2 Sep. 2021
  • In a series of four different experiments, the team discovered cats showed a meaningful response to their own names—even after hearing four similar-sounding nouns or the names of other cats living in the home or the cat café.
    — Carrie Arnold, National Geographic, 4 Apr. 2019
  • Relying on impressive-sounding but fundamentally meaningless stats is a great strategy that will definitely work.
    — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2026
  • There were a lot of terrific smaller films in 2019, but few more enjoyable than these two -- overcoming familiar-sounding premises with sharp writing and terrific performances.
    — Brian Lowry, CNN, 26 Dec. 2019
  • Pastry chef David Rossi offers visually stunning twists on familiar-sounding temptations like s’mores, Milky Way chocolate bars or peanut butter and jelly.
    — Brad A. Johnson, Orange County Register, 7 Apr. 2017

sounding

2 of 2 noun
  • The sailors were taking soundings as the ship approached the coast.
  • The demo is very garage-sounding, very punk-sounding.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Not much call for an anchor and depth soundings inside a shed on a mountain.
    — Author: Rick Sinnott, Alaska Dispatch News, 26 Aug. 2017
  • My mother has been my sounding board and my support, as a mother should be.
    — Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 21 June 2019
  • Mahogany, which is fairly dark and warm sounding helps round out the overall tones.
    — Henry Robertson, Popular Mechanics, 22 Jan. 2019
  • Does anyone still send postcards from faraway places with strange sounding names?
    — Dolly Merritt, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 20 July 2019
  • Their progress has not been lost on other teams, which have used the soccer team as a sounding board for their own fights.
    — Andrew Das, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2018
  • There was a moment of silence for the fallen, followed by the sounding of taps.
    — Vincent T. Davis, ExpressNews.com, 8 Nov. 2019
  • Olesen continues to serve as a sounding board and a shoulder to lean on when things go wrong.
    — William Douglas, charlotteobserver, 9 Feb. 2018
  • Stations were set along the route where the procession stopped to hear the sounding of the shofar.
    — Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Some voices were higher and younger sounding; some were nasally, and some even sounded cute.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 27 June 2018
  • Davis, meanwhile, will serve as a sounding board for Katzmann over the course of the series.
    — Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, 15 Apr. 2020
  • Both present their own ideas to Malzahn during the week and serve as a sounding board for the seventh-year head coach.
    — Tom Green | [email protected], al, 27 Aug. 2019
  • This week's sounding off is not the first time Dimon has weighed in on the issue of student debt loads.
    — Kate Gibson, CBS News, 26 June 2019
  • What's not beautiful, strong or smart is mocking ppl for their 'foreign sounding' names.
    — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 18 Oct. 2020
  • The proper sounding is Bay-jing, not Bay-zhing, with the j sounding like the z in azure.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Jan. 2022
  • Easels holding different maps and sounding boards were arranged in the center of the room.
    — Allan Vought, The Aegis, 19 July 2017
  • Bake until meringues are dry to the touch and hollow sounding when tapped, 1 1/2 to 2 hours.
    — Anna Theoktisto, Southern Living, 21 Dec. 2025
  • The source said Comey would share the information with those close to him to use them, in part, as a sounding board.
    — Pamela Brown, CNN, 16 May 2017
  • Bharucha followed the clip with a similar sounding song, and then another.
    — Joseph Calamia, Discover Magazine, 7 June 2010
  • Long after trends like grunge, gangsta rap and rap rock have faded, the joyous sounding Nukes keep rolling.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al.com, 18 June 2019
  • First of all, it's appropriately named - slightly scary sounding, unique, and fun to say.
    — Dana Burke, Houston Chronicle, 9 Mar. 2018
  • The year starts off with some fairly normal sounding holidays, but quickly takes a turn for the weird in the summer.
    — David Oblas, Good Housekeeping, 29 Mar. 2017
  • The sounding of the shofar, a ram's horn, is the central observance of the holiday.
    — Brieanna J. Frank, The Arizona Republic, 18 Sep. 2020
  • The Stuart Tiara has a very English sounding name for a reason.
    — Elizabeth Angell, Town & Country, 23 Oct. 2018
  • There are some amazing songs that are very Illenium sounding, but there are diverse songs too.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The financial world is buzzing with an arcane sounding issue—the inverted yield curve.
    — Wired, 4 Sep. 2019
  • Here’s a look at a few key yield-curve soundings that investors will be making for the balance of 2018.
    — Daniel Kruger, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2018
  • The name Charlotte might be fit for a princess, but the lovely sounding moniker isn't welcome everywhere.
    — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 26 Sep. 2017
  • Zookeepers put out treats — raisins and fruit — inside pumpkins for lemurs, who appeared to like them, according to a video set to a creepy sounding tune.
    — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2017

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