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Sentences starting with sound

Sound came out of that little shampoo closet; went in there and found Bije. [9]
Sound your drums! [9]
Sound the charge! [5]

Sentences ending with sound

Jane felt deafened, yet she thrilled to a new sound. [13]
I think it would be pleasanter in my ears than any other sound. [5]
The gate slammed, with its more subdued, rainy-weather sound. [9]
Turkey-cocks scrape their wings against the ground, and some kinds of grouse thus produce a buzzing sound. [1]
Think how it will sound. [5]
Cloud-in-the-Sky gave a wild whoop, and from the mountain there came, a moment after, a faint replica of the sound. [11]
None but those whose lives are lived in lonely places can be so acute, so sensitive to sound. [11]
This is all wholesome and sound. [4]
I think that when we all see one thing alike, it is evidence that, as regards that one thing, our minds are perfectly sound. [5]
I think that when we all see one thing alike, it is evidence that as regards that one thing, our minds are perfectly sound. [5]

Short sentences using sound

Perfectly sound, perfectly well! [5]
She turned towards the sound. [11]
You never heard that sound? [11]
The sound rose stronger, louder. [13]
The sound became strangely distressing. [11]
The advice seemed sound. [4]
There was no sound. [11]
I know the sound. [10]
What an odd sound! [5]
There was no sound inside. [12]

Sentences containing sound two or more times

In one of the silences that fell between Shon's attempts to give hilarity to the occasion, there came a rumbling far-off sound, a sound that increased in volume till the earth beneath them responded gently to the vibration. [11]
There was a sound like the hard rattle of a creek over stones, and then another sound behind that. [11]
But in the passage she paused; an unwonted, or rather untimely, sound reached her ears, a sound which came from the front of the house--and at nine o'clock in the morning! [9]
There is no longer the measured quiet sound of throbbing activity, like the sound of boiling water, but diverse discordant sounds of disorder. [2]
When this result is attained it will be time to attack the sound of 'u' with clubs, and make universal the French sound. [4]
He kept his ear strained to hear any sound that might promise hope of rescue; but he heard no voice, no sound of horn or bay of hound. [5]
At last I caught what you may call in distinct glimpses of sound dulled metallic sound. [5]
He fell without a sound, and lay upon his face--he did not hear the hoofs of the escaping horses nor any other sound. [11]
It takes him a good while; but he will come all right by-and-by, Sir,--as sound as a woodchuck,--as sound as a musquash! [6]
Just then at a distance behind Kutuzov was heard the sound of regiments saluting, and this sound rapidly came nearer along the whole extended line of the advancing Russian columns. [2]

More example sentences with the word sound in them

Neither were the youths idle; they busied themselves in making a costly coffin for the vanished corpse of the god, accompanying their work with dances and the sound of castanets. [10]
One word about your absent husband must surely sound sweeter to your ears, than all my music. [10]
That's the sound you'll hear every day of your life, if you break the promise you've got to make to me now. [11]
When I visit you, as you say I shall, I mean to indoctrinate Maurice with sound views on that subject. [6]
Oh, I know you mean it playfully," she hurriedly added, "but--but it does not sound right to me. [11]
No doubt, however, you are, as I am, prepared for critical severity; but I have good hopes that the vessel is sufficiently sound of construction to weather a gale or two, and to make a prosperous voyage for you in the end. [14]
And only last year I had cheated him in a trade, giving him a large fish-hook which was partly broken through for three small sound ones. [5]
He finds good writing and sound philosophy, passages of great force and beauty of expression, marred by obscurity, under assumptions and faults of style. [6]
One of the wounded, an old soldier with a bandaged arm who was following the cart on foot, caught hold of it with his sound hand and turned to look at Pierre. [2]
Well --argued Miles--he would naturally go to his former haunts, for that is the instinct of unsound minds, when homeless and forsaken, as well as of sound ones. [5]
How frightened he would be if the bell should ever sound, and he should go into that hall of the dead to see who rang! [4]
As the peace-maker's work was already drawing to a close, the wounded lad, pointing with his sound hand in the direction of the school, suddenly called warningly: "There comes Herr von Nordwyk. [10]
These are magnificent words; the have a force and magnitude of sound befitting the things which they describe. [5]
Take back your words, mother, take back your words, or--" Katuti turned paler and paler, and said soothingly: "The words may sound hard, but he has broken faith with you, and openly dishonored you. [10]
He liked words--big words, fine words, grand words, rumbling, thundering, reverberating words; with sense attaching if it could be got in without marring the sound, but not otherwise. [5]
All the other words give you hints, by their form, their sound, or their spelling--this one doesn't, this one throws out no hints, this one keeps its secret. [5]
As for the word, I hate the sound of it, for it conveys a lie; and as for the thing itself, I wish it was in hell, where it belongs. [5]
Without uttering a word in reply, Ledscha stepped back into the boat, but Hanno plied the oars with the utmost caution and guided the skiff without the slightest sound away from the island to an open part of the water far distant from any shore. [10]
We were commonly wont to chirp like a pair of crickets while we braided our hair and got into our beds; but this night there was not a sound in the chamber. [10]
The old physician wondered at her sound constitution, for since her plunge into the water the fever had left her and even the injured foot was not much the worse. [10]
It takes a woman to sound a woman's heart, and she found there was still love enough under the ruffled waters to warrant the hope of peace and tranquillity. [6]
Such a fire will keep all night, with very little replenishing; and it makes a very sociable camp-fire, and one around which the most impossible reminiscences sound plausible, instructive, and profoundly entertaining. [5]
He put the will carefully back in its place, and spread his mouth and swung his hat once, twice, three times around his head, in imitation of three rousing huzzahs, no sound issuing from his lips. [5]
He wanted his wife to abandon his wretched carcass long ago, as she herself was sound and well, but Luka said that she was content to remain and wait on the man she loved till the spirit should be freed from its burden. [5]
It was Hannah who, as I opened the kitchen door, turned at the sound, and set down the saucepan she was scouring. [9]
The excellent physician who took charge of my case said positively that my lungs were sound, and the attack was due to the bursting of a blood-vessel. [10]
How many persons who shudder at the sound of this word can tell the difference between that doctrine and their own professed belief in the omnipresence of the Deity? [6]
It was she who led the way through the hedge, who halted in the garden path at the sound of voices. [9]
The great master, who knew so well how to make a hundred instruments rejoice in unison and pour out their souls in mingled and melodious tides of delicious sound, deals only in barren solos when he puts in the vocal parts. [5]
How come you, who are one of the least of the gang, to be wearing sound shoes? [10]
There was a whiz as of a missile in the air, mingled with the murmur of a curse, a sound as of shivering glass followed, and a small, vague form went over the fence and shot away in the gloom. [5]
And for a while there was no sound save that of the singing of the frogs in the distant marsh. [9]
The little bell, which, summoned all the occupants of the monastery, was heard at an unusual hour, and about vespers the sound of sleigh-bells attracted him to the window. [10]
That Greek line, which I do not remember having heard mention of as remarkable, has nearly every consonantal and vowel sound in the language. [6]
Now the deductions which I am going to append to these figures may sound extravagant, but they are not. [5]
It maybe questioned whether these views have not interfered with the sound training of certain young persons, sons of clergymen and others. [6]
Between him and where the sound came from was a fire burning. [11]
In the valley where the moonlight fell in icy coldness a herd of cattle was moving, and their breath rose like the spray from sea-beaten rocks, and the sound of their breathing was borne upwards to the watchers. [11]
These fearful fields, where such tempests of death used to rage, are peaceful enough now; no sound is heard, hardly a living thing moves about them, they are lonely and silent--their desolation is complete. [5]
It was as when a bell is rung in a vacuum,--no words came from them,--only a faint gasping sound, an effort at speech. [6]
It depends on what you hear; hammering and knocking--that's bad; but a sound of shifting grain is good and one sometimes hears that, too. [2]
And she found what she sought; for it seemed to her as if the sound of its sacred rings bore her away into a smiling, sunny landscape. [10]
What sound wit, what keenness of observation, what a happy gift of invention, the old comic writers had at their disposal! [10]
Ahead of her were the lights of the Chippering Mill, in her ears was the rhythmic sound of the looms working of nights on the Bradlaugh order. [9]
This, if it were sound in itself, is waging destructive war with the former position; for if Mr. Clay's bill impoverishes the treasury too much, what shall be said of one that impoverishes it still more? [7]
At last they were roused by the sound of a horn, and, looking down, they saw a four-in-hand drawing smartly down the road to the village over the gorse-spread common, till it stopped at the Cloistered House. [11]
Irene in Quebec, were left to guard the place of treasure, until, to the sound of the laughing spring, there should come many men and much machinery, and the sinking of shafts in the earth, and the making, of riches. [11]
This particular sound went on and on. [11]
Those things sound well, but they are shadowy and indefinite, like troy weight and avoirdupois; nobody knows what they mean. [5]
I poked along well on to an hour, everything still as rocks and sound asleep. [5]
He would sleep well and sound, having seen Pretty Pierre for the last time. [11]
When, however, the weighted body divided the water with a swingeing sound, her face suddenly suffused, as though shame had touched her or some humiliating idea had come. [11]
For a whole week after her instalment Honora was in a continual state of excitement and anticipation, and the sound of wheels and voices on the highroad beyond the hedge sent her peeping to her curtains a dozen times a day. [9]
In a moment we were on our feet, and dashing away toward the sound. [11]
To form her we must have light and more light--and when it is lighter here the voice of the people down there, which does not sound very delightful up in this hollow space, will diminish somewhat also. [10]
As soon as we lost the sound of their feet we quit chasing, and went down and stirred up the constables. [5]
When we think we are thinking, we are for the most part only listening to sound of attrition between these inert elements of intelligence. [6]
Not a sound was to be heard but the long-drawn howling of the wind, and now and then the flap of a strip of cloth torn from the velarium by the gale. [10]
Not a sound was to be heard but the groans of the wrestlers and the singing of the nightingales in the grove of the Altis. [10]
At last there was the sound of footsteps, and a moment later Gabriel Druse came through the trees towards her. [11]
The awfulest thing was the silence; there wasn't a sound but the screaking of the saddles, the measured tramplings, and the sneezing of the horses, afflicted by the smothering dust-clouds which they kicked up. [5]
The next sound was the faint creaking of Colonel Clark's door as it opened. [9]
When their cage was shaken, they would lift their heads and spring their rattles; but the sound was by no means so formidable to listen to as when it reverberated among the chasms of the echoing rocks. [6]
At last she was roused by the sound of horses' hoofs. [11]
This satisfactory conclusion was reached before the coffee came on and the cigarettes, and the sound quality of the Riesling was emphasized by a pony of cognac. [4]
The man's voice was not unpleasant; it had a rolling, crooning sort of sound, a little weird, as though he had lived where men see few of their kind and have much to do with animals. [11]
He says there was not a sound pair of legs in Richmond, and that our men, had they known it, could have safely gone in and burned everything and brought in Jeff Davis. [7]
Indeed, the heat was most oppressive, but we had become to some extent inured to it on the boat, and we were both in such sound health that our slumbers were not disturbed. [9]
Well, likely it was minutes and minutes that there warn't a sound, and we all there so close together. [5]
Landulph rose, and was in the act of claiming judgment by default when a strange clacking sound was heard coming up the stairs. [5]
Every surrounding object was buried in silence save that from the neighboring Dens of the royal steeds, came the sound of the rattle of a chain, or of the stamp of a stallion's hoof. [10]
A mighty fire was blazing on the hearth and roaring up the wide chimney with a cheerful sound, which a large iron cauldron, bubbling and simmering in the heat, lent its pleasant aid to swell. [12]
That one sound was all that visited the ear in the summer stillness--just that one sound--the muffled tread of the marching host. [5]
He said it was a sight better than lying tied a couple of years every day, and trembling all over every time there was a sound. [5]
She hurried along Warren Street without once looking over her shoulder; her feet seemed scarcely to touch the ground, the sound of music was in her ears, the lights sparkled. [9]
During the existing war it is peculiarly the duty of the National Government to secure to the people a sound circulating medium. [7]
It was a wail of sorrow, a march to the grave, a benediction, a soft sound of farewell, floating through the room and dying away into the mid-day sun. [11]
In one noble volume of sound of all the fifty-seven Haves in the Italian language burst forth in an exalting and splendid confusion. [5]
Suddenly a great volume of sound filled the corridor, and the band burst forth into what many supposed to be "The Watch on the Rhine. [9]
The sound of voices, the tramping feet, the horses' hoofs moving in mud, the crackling of wood fires near and afar, merged into one tremulous rumble. [2]
It was the voice of suffering womanhood, a sound that goes up day and night, one long chorus of tortured victims. [6]
We want the virile energy of determination which made the oath of Andrew Jackson sound so like the devotion of an ardent saint that the recording angel might have entered it unquestioned among the prayers of the faithful. [6]
It had a vibration which made some of his words organ-like in sound. [11]
It was a very still Sabbath, and the mournful sound seemed in keeping with the musing hush that lay upon nature. [5]
The sound was very distinct here as also were the flashes of the guns up the clouds. [7]
It is the very demon for conveying similarities of sound that are miracles of divergence from similarity of sense. [5]
I will not venture to say how delightful, because the words would sound extravagant, and would thereby lose some of their strength and to that degree misrepresent me. [5]
Melissa drew her veil closer and clung more tightly to her brother, for a sound of singing and wild cries, which she had heard behind her for some time, was now coming closer. [10]
He was with us once more--perfectly sound. [5]
If they ask us for the sufficient and sound currency we promised, let them be answered that we only promised it through the medium of a national bank, which they, aided by Mr. Tyler, prevented our establishing. [7]
Occasionally, intruding faintly upon the countryside peace, she was aware of a distant humming sound that grew louder and louder until there shot roaring past her an automobile filled with noisy folk, leaving behind it a suffocating cloud of dust. [9]
It all flashed upon him now, and he saw himself starting back at the sound of the voice. [11]
Joan's temper flamed up, and she halted and commanded the trumpets to sound the advance. [5]
As he advanced up the mid-aisle the interest was so intense that the low murmur of conversation in the great assemblage died out and was succeeded by a profound hush, a breathless stillness, through which his footfalls pulsed with a dull and distant sound. [5]
There she lay, until the last laugh and sound of rattling glass had died away below, and her aunt's guests had left the house. [10]
The work of undoing the great twist of logs was exciting, and they fell on each other with a great sound as they were pried off, and went sliding, grinding, into the water. [11]
I do not understand them, but they sound comforting. [11]
We were almost under the monstrous wall of water thundering down from above, and speech was in vain in the midst of such a pitiless crash of sound. [5]
Phoebicius and Sirona--the two names sound very finely together. [10]
His letter to Twichell is as individual as it is sound in philosophy. [5]

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