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At the risk of sounding like a reverse sexist, I don't particularly care for shopping, chick flicks or comparing beauty products.
The machine emitted a whirring sound, and a few calculated sounding thunks, and then began to run.
He lifts his horn and they all begin to thunder across the plain sounding their calls.
And a lot of what they say makes sense to me, but some of it winds up sounding a little kooky.
The thunder of the drums rang out around Newbridge town centre on Friday night, sounding the start of Bealtaine, the town s annual arts festival.
It started to rain, with flashes of lightning and booms of thunder sounding in the distance.
Swarms of scooters yammered hysterically past, sounding like runaway chainsaws.
They started with the sounding of a bugle, leading in to a drum ruffle from the drum corps, and then swinging into their rock group performance.
Or is it that people with vision and ideas lack the conviction to put them forward and risk sounding stupid?
And then Ben's match began, and it was him I cheered for instead, my yells sounding hollow even to my own ears.
Remarkably, he manages to say all this without once sounding like he's reprimanding us.
A bugle blew in the Ruhr on Sunday, sounding the last post for the postwar German model.
He never wants to come off sounding bitter or resentful over opportunities lost.
I replied, realizing that my own voice was suddenly sounding deeper, and throaty too, as if I was trying to seduce him.
As I said, it's a hard thought, a difficult concept to explain without sounding loopy.
The sheer absence of soul in these girls is something I can't easily describe without sounding out-and-out abusive.
The pianist wants us to hear everything, and he relies on his legato playing to prevent the music from sounding dry, even skeletal.
His muse, whilst sounding thin and mean vocally, comes to life through her guitar.
Without sounding too unsympathetic, diseases and illnesses are a natural way of stopping the earth becoming too overpopulated.
Gina woke up to the notes of a trumpet sounding reveille breaking the dewy morning silence.
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Examples from Classical Literature
In like manner, deep-sea sounding may lead to great, as yet unimagined, results.
Eve had a sensitivity of feature that was a sounding board for her emotions.
A few days before, the adulations and applauses of a nation were sounding in her ears, and now she was come to this!
On sounding the well on board the Alecto, a considerable quantity of water was found in the hold.
By the time they got it secured, the radio already was sounding warnings for blastoff.
It was this man's efforts which sent the boom-boom sounding at intervals over the landscape.
There came a whistle in the air, and then a sounding smack, and the fragments of a Broken Arrow fell about their ears.
With the thoroughness that marked all his preparations, Perry spent another day in sounding on the bar and buoying the channel.
He must express himself in chaldee, in a half obscure language, peculiarly fit for secrets, and sounding as if from another world.
Owners vied with each other in sounding his praises and competing for his services.
The strings were fastened upon a metal rod lying along the face of the sounding board.
Dawned a day of mighty slaughter and of dread and deathful war, Ancient Bhishma, in his anger drove once more his sounding car!
There was not a sound other than the de profundis, still sounding from very far away.
His Welsh sounding name bears witness to his being a fenman of British ancestry.
As he yanked the lever savagely, the popping from up the road sounding like the rapid discharge of a Gatling gun.
Which do you advise for the sounding board of a microphone and Hughes telephone?
Thomas Gernet, in heysham, by sounding the horn on meeting the king on his arrival in those parts.
Mr. Arnold, who had come to fetch his wife, was sounding his hooter as a signal on the drive.
This yelp, sounding above the somniferous monotone of grumbling, stirred Cap'n Sproul from his dozing.
The hours went by, sounding slowly, sonorously, and sadly from the cathedral clock.
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