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
• 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
• Google showed the audience of coders some demonstrations of the new male and female sounding voices.
  — Jonathan Vanian, Fortune, 8 May 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
• Now, despite the similar sounding name, a tomatillo is not, in fact, a tomato.
  — Paul Stephen, ExpressNews.com, 7 Aug. 2019
• But some Braves fans were holding out hope the corporate-sounding name wouldn't adorn the stadium.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 12 Dec. 2019
• On top of being doppelgangers, the other man had the similar-sounding name of Rick.
  — Mary Emily O'Hara, NBC News, 12 June 2017
• The next most frequent factor was a person having a Muslim-sounding name.
  — Jaweed Kaleem, latimes.com, 9 May 2017
• 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
• The fierce-sounding name was close to Ms. Kraus’s heart, as a University of Michigan graduate.
  — Scott Calvert, WSJ, 17 Nov. 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
• Each chapter of the book is devoted to a specific, somewhat strange-sounding rule.
  — Zack Beauchamp, Vox, 21 May 2018
• Plus, that same year, David and Victoria Beckham gave their son a similar-sounding name, Cruz.
  — Megan Friedman, Country Living, 25 June 2018
• That makes them a scary-sounding weapon in economic and diplomatic disputes.
  — Washington Post, 31 May 2019
• More problems occur in the second half when one of Nana’s orders gets mixed up with an order from a business with a similar-sounding name: Saucy Lips, Etc.
  — John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press, 24 Jan. 2018
• 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
• Vasily Djokavich wasn’t born to be a comedian — despite his comedic-sounding name (pronounced va-silly joke-a-vich).
  — Scott Maxwell, OrlandoSentinel.com, 20 May 2017
• 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
• The funny-sounding name of this curvaceous bulb is the key reason to grow it: Ornithogalum longibracteatum makes babies.
  — Country Living Staff, Country Living, 6 Mar. 2018
• 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
• The worker dissatisfaction has spilled out across threads on internal sounding boards, the people said.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Oct. 2019
• The vague symptoms you’re experiencing are actually for this horrifying-sounding thing that Goop’s telling you about for the first time.
  — Gabriella Paiella, The Cut, 24 Aug. 2017
• Still, typhus is a scary-sounding disease that can actually be pretty tricky to diagnose.
  — Sarah Klein, Health.com, 31 Oct. 2019
• 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
• Or April 15? Ghaly had a logical-sounding answer: There won’t be enough people vaccinated before then.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2021
• 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
• In a country where government bonds yield next to nothing, Mrs. Watanabe—the nickname for Japan’s retail investors—has been known to pay more attention to big dividends and other easy-sounding returns than to risks.
  — Jacky Wong, WSJ, 19 Dec. 2018
• Now, add something new and kind of cool-sounding, scheduled to open October 1: an interactive exhibit inspired by … cannabis.
  — Joan Oleck, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2021
• His company isn’t even the only Chinese operator to share a similar-sounding name.
  — Bloomberg.com, 22 May 2017

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sounding

2 of 2 noun

• The sailors were taking soundings as the ship approached the coast.
• Trump laid the wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, backed away, and put his hand on his heart for the sounding of the Taps.
  — Brooke Singman, Fox News, 29 May 2017
• 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
• Farrell, of course, has a great sounding board in his dad.
  — Pete Grathoff, kansascity.com, 11 Mar. 2017
• 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
• Both present their own ideas to Malzahn during the week and serve as a sounding board for the seventh-year head coach.
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], al, 27 Aug. 2019
• Davis, meanwhile, will serve as a sounding board for Katzmann over the course of the series.
  — Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, 15 Apr. 2020
• 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
• There was a moment of silence for the fallen, followed by the sounding of taps.
  — Vincent T. Davis, ExpressNews.com, 8 Nov. 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
• 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 sounding of the shofar, a ram's horn, is the central observance of the holiday.
  — Brieanna J. Frank, The Arizona Republic, 18 Sep. 2020
• 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
• The Stuart Tiara has a very English sounding name for a reason.
  — Elizabeth Angell, Town & Country, 23 Oct. 2018
• Not much call for an anchor and depth soundings inside a shed on a mountain.
  — Author: Rick Sinnott, Alaska Dispatch News, 26 Aug. 2017
• Mahogany, which is fairly dark and warm sounding helps round out the overall tones.
  — Henry Robertson, Popular Mechanics, 22 Jan. 2019
• My mother has been my sounding board and my support, as a mother should be.
  — Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 21 June 2019
• The language of the D.C. event – its name, its program – is quite secular sounding.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 4 Apr. 2018
• The language of the D.C. event — its name, its program — is quite secular sounding.
  — Michelle Boorstein, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2018
• Olesen continues to serve as a sounding board and a shoulder to lean on when things go wrong.
  — William Douglas, charlotteobserver, 9 Feb. 2018
• Easels holding different maps and sounding boards were arranged in the center of the room.
  — Allan Vought, The Aegis, 19 July 2017
• The efforts have acquired new urgency with the recent sounding of alarms in the United States.
  — Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2022
• With a great pounding of drums and sounding of brass, the Marching Southerners, in perfect step, would sweep onto the grass.
  — Southern Living, 1 May 2017
• 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 name Charlotte might be fit for a princess, but the lovely sounding moniker isn't welcome everywhere.
  — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 26 Sep. 2017
• Long after trends like grunge, gangsta rap and rap rock have faded, the joyous sounding Nukes keep rolling.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al.com, 18 June 2019
• Your sweetie could prove to be a powerful sounding board.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Feb. 2020
• DeValve had his own sounding board at home: his wife, Erica, who is black.
  — Tim Rohan, SI.com, 28 Aug. 2017
• Lally and Canty are two-thirds of a very different sounding band, the Messthetics.
  — Joey Morona, cleveland.com, 3 May 2018
• Expect speakers, musical performances, a time capsule, a public art unveiling, and the sounding of bells throughout the county.
  — Donna M. Owens, Baltimore Sun, 24 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024