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Sentences starting with sounds

Sounds like machinery working and churning. [5]
Sounds of mad revelry came down from the floor above. [9]
Sounds like poetry, but it's the petrified truth. [5]
Sounds of indignation broke from the bystanders; the blood rose to his cheeks again, and, shaking his fist, he muttered unintelligible threats, while his eyes wandered again and again to the caricatures. [10]
Sounds of hoofs and shouts were nearing the village. [2]
Sounds of crying and screaming came from somewhere in the distance outside, and flames were visible through the cracks of the shed, but inside it was quiet and dark. [2]
Sounds like Coleridge. [6]
Sounds so, anyway. [5]

Sentences ending with sounds

According to Houzeau, who paid particular attention to the subject, the domestic fowl utters at least a dozen significant sounds. [1]
I woon't know where I am when the trumpet sounds. [8]
When the blue vapor stole through the cypress swamp, my trained ear caught the faintest of warning sounds. [9]
He listened intently to the ebb and flow of these sounds. [2]
The mountains always stood here, and the Au Sable, flowing now in shallows and now in rippling reaches over the sands and pebbles, has for ages filled the air with continuous and soothing sounds. [4]
The City seems so much more in earnest; its business, its rush, its roar, are such serious things, sights, sounds. [14]
Sometimes, too, a sharp word of command, or a signal heard for a long distance, pierced through the awful sounds. [10]
Except the sleeping old man, everybody was at work, but the place was very still and peaceful, nevertheless; so still that the distant cackle of the successful hen smote upon the ear but little dulled by intervening sounds. [5]
Then silence,--the silence of a summer morning which is all myriad sweet sounds. [9]
Therefore complain I not of modern degeneracy, when, even from the open window of the small unlovely farmhouse, tenanted by the hard-handed man of bovine flavors and the flat-patterned woman of broken-down countenance, issue the same familiar sounds. [6]

Short sentences using sounds

It sounds like you. [5]
Ideality 9 That sounds well. [6]
Her voice sounds differently. [10]
Forced applause sounds differently. [10]
Yes, that sounds better. [11]
It sounds like an epithet. [5]

Sentences containing sounds two or more times

Hideous sounds tortured the air--crackling, snapping, spitting sounds like the laughter of animals with steel throats. [11]
At wide intervals his straining ear did detect sounds, but they were so remote, and hollow, and mysterious, that they seemed not to be real sounds, but only the moaning and complaining ghosts of departed ones. [5]
The sounds, which he had not heard for so long, had an even more pleasurable and exhilarating effect on Rostov than the previous sounds of firing. [2]
The fog-whistle, smothered among a million of trifling sounds, is not noticed a block away, in the city, but the sailor hears it far at sea, whither none of those thousands of trifling sounds can reach. [5]

More example sentences with the word sounds in them

It had no Zulu clicks in it; and it seemed to have no angles or corners, no roughness, no vile s's or other hissing sounds, but was very, very mellow and rounded and flowing. [5]
They both listened with such tension that the veins in their foreheads swelled; but from the tablinum, which was hardly thirty paces from them, came only very faint and intermittent sounds, indistinct in character and drowned by the tumult without. [10]
We'll solve the witcheries of these sounds, you and I, to-night. [11]
In the open window came the fresh morning breeze, and only the softened sounds of the life outside. [4]
The windows were wide open also, and the scent of June roses came in, with all the languishing sounds of a summer night. [4]
She heard the whistling and the puffing of the trains in the cinder-covered valley to the southward, but the quality of these sounds had changed. [9]
The manner in which certain letters or sounds change when others change is very like correlated growth. [1]
There are words which are as sounds, and words which are as feelings. [11]
So the sounds were yet more dreary than the silence which they interrupted. [5]
But those sounds were so real and so human and so moving that the idea of ghosts passed straight out of our minds, and Sir Jean de Metz spoke out and said: "Come! [5]
But these sounds were hardly heard in comparison with the noise of the firing outside the town and attracted little attention from the inhabitants. [2]
A thousand fires were burning, and there were no sounds save the murmuring voices of myriads of men, and the stamp of hoofs where the Cavalry and Mounted Infantry horses were picketed. [11]
He listened with weary ears to the ever-recurring sounds, distinguishing the whistle of flying projectiles from the booming of the reports, glanced at the tiresomely familiar faces of the men of the first battalion, and waited. [2]
He sits down wearily at the basswood table, and scarcely hears the familiar sounds without, which indicate that the convention of conventions has begun. [9]
He knew the ways of every domestic animal, and such sounds were only uttered by a little pig that felt comfortably fat, and lived under favorable circumstances. [10]
At first it was only as though a wind stirred the air of dreams, then it was like the sounds that gather behind the coming rage of a storm, and again it was as though a night- prowler plucked at the sleeve of a home-goer. [11]
Perhaps the sermon was not new, but it was fervid, and at times the able preacher roared so that articulate sounds were lost in the general effect. [4]
Just as he was going to open it the sounds ceased, the door opened, and Kutuzov with his eagle nose and puffy face appeared in the doorway. [2]
The medley of voices within ceased; there were sounds of rattling papers, and of closing of folding doors. [9]
These are the voices which struck the key-note of my conceptions as to what the sounds we are to hear in heaven will be, if we shall enter through one of the twelve gates of pearl. [6]
There was a voiceless interval of some duration now, in which no sounds were heard but the beating of the rain upon the panes, the sighing and complaining of the winds, and now and then a muffled sob from Roxana. [5]
It was only visible things, or sounds, that appeared to open the doors of memory of the most recent happenings. [11]
We looked down upon Kaskaskia from the self-same spot where I had stood on the bluff with Colonel Clark, and the sounds were even then the same,--the sweet tones of the church bell and the lowing of the cattle. [9]
As I climbed up to my rooms in Dover Street, I heard merry sounds above, and a cloud of smoke blew out of the door when I opened it. [9]
As carts passed under the great archway, its depth multiplied the sounds so powerfully, the echoes were so fantastic, that folk believed them the roarings of fiendish spirits. [11]
The guide sounded two sonorous notes, about half an octave apart; the echo answered with the most enchanting, the most melodious, the richest blending of sweet sounds that one can imagine. [5]
Certain guttural sounds, too, which from time to time ascended through the floor of the caravan, and a rustling of straw in the same direction, apprised her that the driver was couched upon the ground beneath, and gave her an additional feeling of security. [12]
Little old Krates, too, often compares me to all sorts of pretty things, but that always sounds so comical that I cannot help laughing. [10]
It sounds mad to you of course, but there have been times when I have had a wild longing to go back to it all, to what some Gorgio writers call the pariah world--the Ishmaelites. [11]
It sounds odiously to us to hear him recommend for dysentery a powder made from "the sole of an old shoe worn by some man that walks much. [3]
He listened anxiously to the sounds in the distance, and fancied at first that he heard the Alexandrian's footstep, and then that he heard loud words and suppressed groans coming from his cave. [10]
She listened breathlessly to the sounds from the city, and now a distant blare of trumpets drowned the dull roar of the ordnance and the sharp rattle of the culverins. [10]
Fielding also ought to have a few days clear away from this constant pressure and fighting, and the sounds and the smells of death; but it could not be yet. [11]
He talked hopefully to Becky; but an age of anxious waiting passed and no sounds came again. [5]
If you happened to be passing the windows, certain more or less intelligible sounds might separate themselves from the bedlam. [9]
They had come to a long piece of corduroy-road, and the horse's hoofs struck rumbling hollow sounds from the floor of cedar logs. [11]
For a long time Natasha listened attentively to the sounds that reached her from inside and outside the room and did not move. [2]
The sensation of those terrible whistling sounds and of the corpses around him merged in Rostov's mind into a single feeling of terror and pity for himself. [2]
It was towards this moving spectacle that the staircase and the sweet sounds guided Kit; on whose arrival before his door, Mr Brass stopped his singing, but not his smiling, and nodded affably: at the same time beckoning to him with his pen. [12]
If only the thirst did not torture him, if only the sounds of the battle were less loud in his ears! [11]
This kind of thing sounds odd now, and impossible, but it seemed a perfectly natural thing to do. [5]
When you hear these four sounds, you may set it down as a warm day. [6]
As for sounds, there were none. [5]
After a time there were no sounds but the cries of the mourners within and the gusty turmoil of the wind without. [5]
Through the sounds there came another inner voice, that resolved all the crude, primitive thoughts here defined; vague, elusive, in Parpon's own brain. [11]
But now and then, in the stillness through which the river flowed on, murmuring and rhythmic, there rose the distant sounds of disorderly voices. [11]
The sounds of their jests and laughter pursued us out of the house. [9]
His use of the word "haughty" is so fitting, and it sounds so nobly from his lips, that we could wish its employment were forbidden henceforth to voices which vulgarize it. [6]
He waited until the white smoke of the last gun had drifted away on the breeze, until the snapping of the flag and the distant village sounds alone broke the stillness. [9]
At such times the water comes out of the places in her face that she looks out of, and she pats the fish on the back and makes soft sounds with her mouth to soothe it, and betrays sorrow and solicitude in a hundred ways. [5]
It sounds like the wail of all the babies since the world began. [9]
Their efforts in the struggle for the portfolio were the only sounds audible, but it was evident that if the princess did speak, her words would not be flattering to Anna Mikhaylovna. [2]
I admit that the story sounds melodramatic; but truth is more drama than comedy, I fancy. [11]
At last came the sounds that I had waited for, and presently I knew by the tramp beneath, and by low laments floating up, that a wife was mourning over the dead body of her husband. [11]
By and by the sounds of the infernal machine began to trouble and pursue me. [6]
She listened to the sounds in the hall. [2]
On the 13th the sounds came nearer--he was slowly, but steadily, cutting his way through, storming one stronghold after another. [5]
For a while the sounds approached pretty fast. [5]
Even yet upon the sky was the reflection of the fire, and distant sounds of singing, shouting, and carousal came to us from the Lower Town. [11]
It sounds like the shuffling of many feet. [5]
Without a word the Seigneur went to the door of the inn whence the sounds proceeded, and, without knocking, entered. [11]
There were still the same suffering, exhausted, and sometimes strangely indifferent faces, the same blood, the same soldiers' overcoats, the same sounds of firing which, though distant now, still aroused terror, and besides this there were the foul air and the dust. [2]
The silence in the room was so deep that all outside sounds seemed exaggerated by contrast with it. [5]
Before they reached the room from which the sounds of the clavichord came, the pretty, fair haired Frenchwoman, Mademoiselle Bourienne, rushed out apparently beside herself with delight. [2]
I frightened her, the other day, by saying that faith, as an intellectual state, was self-reliance, which, if you have a metaphysical turn, you will find is not so much of a paradox as it sounds at first. [6]
He passed into the next room, and the deep, querulous sounds of his voice were at once heard from there. [2]
They were like the murmur of waters, like the sounds of the forest and soft, booming bells. [11]
He listened to the mules galloping, till the sounds had died into the distance, but he saw now that his captor had heard too, and that the pursuit would be desperate. [11]
Nor is it the mere capacity of connecting definite sounds with definite ideas; for it is certain that some parrots, which have been taught to speak, connect unerringly words with things, and persons with events. [1]
The hammering of the infrequent woodpecker, the call of the lonely bird, the drumming of the solitary partridge,--all these sounds do but emphasize the lonesomeness of nature. [4]
Sometimes it is the dragging of something heavy over the floor, that makes me shiver to hear it,--it sounds so like what people that kill other people have to do now and then. [6]
A discussion on the beau-ideal of the liver, lungs, kidneys, etc., as of the human face divine, sounds strange in our ears. [1]
I say, then, that, if these odd sounds coming from the Little Gentleman's chamber sometimes make me nervous, so that I cannot get to sleep, it is not because I suppose he is engaged in any unlawful or mysterious way. [6]
They would admit, that though they could make other apes understand by cries some of their perceptions and simpler wants, the notion of expressing definite ideas by definite sounds had never crossed their minds. [1]
But, your Majesty, that of the nightingale battering down solid walls sounds still more beautiful to me. [10]
Of all sounds, that of the human voice is the sweetest. [10]
It seemed a terrible climbing up the sides of a cliff, and, as he struggled fainting on, all sorts of sounds were in his ears, but he realised that the Whisperer was no longer there. [11]
This roaring avalanche swept out of Melbourne and left it desolate, Sunday-like, paralyzed, everything at a stand-still, the ships lying idle at anchor, all signs of life departed, all sounds stilled save the rasping of the cloud-shadows as they scraped across the vacant streets. [5]
Then rose and swelled out above those common earthly sounds one of those rich chords the secret of whose make only the Jubilees possess, and a spell fell upon that house. [5]
Never was there such a long twilight; never before did he hear so many sounds outdoors that he wanted to investigate. [4]
From St. James's Street below came no sounds at last. [11]
Bright light was streaming through the open windows of Rhodopis' house, and sounds of mirth and gaiety fell on the ear. [10]
The burglar who steps within this danger zone will set loose a bedlam of sounds, and spring into readiness for action our elaborate system of defences. [5]
The same old stateliness, the same cleanliness, the same stillness reigned there, and inside there was the same furniture, the same walls, sounds, and smell, and the same timid faces, only somewhat older. [2]
I have not spoken of the sounds I heard while the earth was revolving under us. [6]
My heart shall speak for thee till the latest hour; I know faint and broken are the sounds of sorrow, yet our souls, Elfonzo, shall hear the peaceful songs together. [5]
All the strange spasmodic movements, the chokings, the odd sounds, the wild talk, the laughing and crying, were in full blast. [6]
With respect to sounds, Helmholtz has explained to a certain extent on physiological principles, why harmonies and certain cadences are agreeable. [1]
How your voice sounds, and how pale you look! [10]
But these pious sounds were frequently overpowered by the loud voices of the gamblers and revellers, by the blows of the hammers, the hoarse braying of the asses, and the neighing of the horses. [10]
See whether this sounds true or not. [6]
Tom Sawyer's Gang--it sounds splendid, don't it, Huck? [5]
She says it sounds so old, and that I'd be calling her 'mother' next. [11]
There were no sounds save the musical beat of the water against the strakes, and the low hum of wind on the towering vibrant sails. [9]
All around were sounds of suppressed weeping, singing and praying but Antinous saw and heard nothing. [10]
You think that sounds like a woman or a priest? [11]
When she heard sounds in the house, she thought that old Ursel was ill and they were summoning the doctor. [10]
His rescued patient sounds his praises, and a wide circle of his patient's friends joins in a chorus of eulogies. [6]
These sights and sounds had no depressing or intimidating effect on him; on the contrary, they stimulated his energy and determination. [2]
But besides this, sounds frequently recurring at irregular intervals are highly disagreeable, as every one will admit who has listened at night to the irregular flapping of a rope on board ship. [1]

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