Sounding is an English word with synonyms like looking or measure. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Sounding in a sentence
Related words
Sounding meaning
The action of the verb to sound.
Synonyms of Sounding
Using Sounding
- The main meaning on this page is: The action of the verb to sound.
- Useful related words include: looking, measure, measuring, measurement.
- In the example corpus, sounding often appears in combinations such as: sounding like, sounding the, are sounding.
Context around Sounding
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 13 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Sounding
- In this selection, "sounding" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, best, pitches, tuba, names, pitch and rockets stand out and add context to how "sounding" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a panicked sounding security guard and above its sounding pitch. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "sounding" sits close to words such as ceased, confidential and consoles, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with sounding
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Use Sounding rockets Almost all sounding rockets use solid motors. (10 words)
At 10:06:23, a panicked-sounding security guard said, “Officers! (11 words)
An exhausted sounding Hugo Currie described the weekend as a "roller coaster of emotions". (14 words)
Traditional British-style brass band parts for the tuba are usually written in treble clef, with the B tuba sounding two octaves and one step below and the E tuba sounding one octave and a major sixth below the written pitch. (41 words)
As we continue our study of Greater Wilshire’s potential historic districts, let us head east to look at two surviving pockets of our community’s earliest developments that survive along that noble sounding thoroughfare of St. Andrew’s Place. (40 words)
As we noted, ChatGPT it's just doing math, and it's not designed to do ethics so much as to spit out fairly human-sounding text, based on its having sifted through tons of human writing. (37 words)
At 10:06:23, a panicked-sounding security guard said, “Officers! (11 words)
Example sentences (20)
But if you're OK with it, these are easily among the best-sounding true-wireless earbuds out there -- and maybe even the best-sounding.
Experiments using fictitious responses to real want ads show that white-sounding names receive many more callbacks for interviews than black-sounding names.
Dr. Suzuki referred to the sounding point as the Kreisler highway; one may think of different sounding points as lanes in the highway.
However, notation varies between the written pitch sounding an octave lower (as in guitar music and called octave pitch in most tenor banjo methods) and music sounding at the written pitch (called actual pitch).
In the Middle Ages the term was used to describe two pitches sounding in combination, and in the Renaissance the concept was expanded to denote three pitches sounding together.
Other Whiteman tunes strike many listeners today as sounding dated next to the more aggressive and familiar-sounding hot jazz; still, some critics are coming around to Whiteman.
Rare sizes and notations include the garklein, which may be notated two octaves below its sounding pitch, and the sub-contrabass, which may be notated an octave above its sounding pitch.
Secondly, the much shorter sounding length of the string in very high positions gives challenges for the right arm and bow in sounding the instrument effectively.
Traditional British-style brass band parts for the tuba are usually written in treble clef, with the B tuba sounding two octaves and one step below and the E tuba sounding one octave and a major sixth below the written pitch.
Use Sounding rockets Almost all sounding rockets use solid motors.
A brutal way of silencing concerns is the ominous important-sounding concept of “state security”.
According to OpenAI, it sometimes writes plausible-sounding but incorrect answers to user questions because there is no source of the truth in its machine learning training.
An admin of Wallasey Gossip advised people to fact check sensational sounding news they may see on social media and be aware any evidence may be photoshopped.
And, while sounding somewhat prophetic, apparently Alford hit the nail on the head as the bill would appear to be dead before even going to committee.
A new manager has come in and he's sounding positive and we're all looking forward to getting on board with him.
An exhausted sounding Hugo Currie described the weekend as a "roller coaster of emotions".
As St. Paul informs us, “If I should speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have charity, I have become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal” (1 Corinthians 13:1).
As we continue our study of Greater Wilshire’s potential historic districts, let us head east to look at two surviving pockets of our community’s earliest developments that survive along that noble sounding thoroughfare of St. Andrew’s Place.
As we noted, ChatGPT it's just doing math, and it's not designed to do ethics so much as to spit out fairly human-sounding text, based on its having sifted through tons of human writing.
At 10:06:23, a panicked-sounding security guard said, “Officers!
Common combinations with sounding
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- sounding like 22×
- sounding the 22×
- are sounding 13×
- sounding board 12×
- sounding more 7×
- is sounding 7×
- and sounding 6×
- been sounding 5×
- without sounding 5×
- of sounding 5×