How to Use sound in a Sentence

sound

1 of 3 noun
  • Helm learns some of their sounds.
    — Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Where does the sound come from?
    — Michal Ruprecht, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The snake had not made a sound.
    — Dr. C. E. Kuschel, Outdoor Life, 9 Apr. 2026
  • But what struck me was the sound.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 19 Apr. 2026
  • There is no sound or light booth.
    — Eva Remijan-Toba, Chicago Tribune, 8 May 2026
  • All the greats have sounds and styles.
    — Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Your sound has evolved over the years.
    — Caroline Tell, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Treat your ears to some silky smooth sound.
    — Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The first thing that struck me was the sound.
    — Alisha Prakash, Travel + Leisure, 25 Apr. 2026
  • The muse for this record was the sound of it.
    — Daniela Avila, PEOPLE, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Why does this sound or look or read so weird?
    — Literary Hub, 12 May 2026
  • Bradley Cox heard a faint sound.
    — J.c. Hallman, Oklahoma Watch, 22 Jan. 2026
  • None of us dared make even a breath of a sound.
    — Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
  • The sound is rich, with deep bass and bright highs.
    — PC Magazine, 16 Oct. 2025
  • No one had to wear ear plugs to block out the sound.
    — Katia Riddle, NPR, 9 Apr. 2026
  • That sound was to my right, down the left-field line.
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2026
  • This record is the sound of Soulfly’s fire!
    — Quentin Thane Singer, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • There is no sound in space, but black holes can still sing.
    — Sam MacDonald, Scientific American, 26 June 2026
  • Her artistry and her voice have helped shape the sound of our times.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The male nurse muted the sound.
    — Laura Vazquez, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The sound cut out from the broadcast.
    — Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The sound of the big ship sinking.
    — Jon Landau, Variety, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Wait, was that the sound of a gunshot?
    — Calvin Woodward, Chicago Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026
  • What sound does a bald eagle make?
    — Finch Walker, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Yet even that was just the baseline sound.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 4 June 2026
  • My body spoke louder than any sound could.
    — Jamilee Hoglind, Outside, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Far away, the drums of battle sound.
    — James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 18 Feb. 2026
  • This is about seven times the speed of sound.
    — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 29 Apr. 2026
  • There was a big crashing sound.
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Their sound was more sweet and melancholy.
    — David Hill, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2025

sound

2 of 3 verb
  • Massie’s record might sound worse.
    — Elana Schor, semafor.com, 18 May 2026
  • The idea may sound far-fetched.
    — Senior Reporter, PC Magazine, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Well, this all sounds très chic.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 9 Apr. 2026
  • But those sounds go a long way.
    — Daniel Bromfield, Pitchfork, 11 Feb. 2026
  • That may sound like a wild idea.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 13 June 2026
  • That doesn’t sound so bad, right?
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Does that sound like a scary scene?
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 16 May 2026
  • This sounds more like a food fight.
    — Judith Martin, Mercury News, 2 Mar. 2026
  • The best cold emails sound like you.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • That sounds kind of, oh my gosh.
    — CBS News, 28 June 2026
  • None of this sounds good at all!
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
  • This both sounds painful and is painful.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
  • That doesn’t sound so bad to me.
    — John Seiler, Oc Register, 28 Oct. 2025
  • That might sound a lot like … you.
    — Kim Komando The Kim Komando Show, FOXNews.com, 21 Oct. 2025
  • His songs can sound facile to my ear.
    — David L. Ulin, The Atlantic, 11 May 2026
  • At first glance, that sounds like progress.
    — Matthew Sweeney, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • That doesn’t sound all that big, though?
    — Clio Chang, Curbed, 30 Apr. 2026
  • But if that sounds too good to be true?
    — Ben Church, CNN Money, 24 Apr. 2026
  • While that sounds great, there’s a catch.
    — Wayne Winegarden, Oc Register, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Do any of these places sound woooo-rthy?
    — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Those sound great, but cost an arm and a leg.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 28 Oct. 2025
  • None of those things sound bad on their own, of course.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 27 Mar. 2026
  • If all this sounds too easy to be true, guess again.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Some of this may sound a little wild.
    — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 31 May 2026
  • Starts to sound not so crazy after all.
    — Lee Clifford, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2025
  • That sounds so stressful to me.
    — Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2026
  • That sounds pretty great to us.
    — David Faris, TheWeek, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Does that sound a little crazy?
    — Alexandra Jhamb Burns, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Did these sounds overlap at all?
    — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Those goals sound fine on paper.
    — Sean Parks, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Feb. 2026

sound

3 of 3 adjective
  • The tests show that his heart is sound.
  • The bridge is structurally sound.
  • She gave us some sound advice.
  • The stock market has made a sound recovery.
  • She has a sound understanding of the system's structure.
  • She used sound reasoning in making the decision.
  • The sound mix and the choice of songs.
    — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 13 Mar. 2026
  • So if the scheme is sound, what is wrong?
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 23 Feb. 2026
  • How does the chance to learn all that and more sound?
    — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 14 Oct. 2025
  • When the core premise is sound, the rest flows from there.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The sound man came over and asked me not to shake them so much.
    — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Apr. 2026
  • People who slow things down sound smart.
    — Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • So bucking that trend was a sound choice.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 17 June 2026
  • By and large, their instincts are sound.
    — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Gazes tangle, sound mutes, time bends.
    — Addie Citchens, New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2026
  • That's where sound judgment lives.
    — Naz Beheshti, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • If Becton is sound enough to start, that is.
    — Elliott Teaford, Oc Register, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The sound guy was, to put it nicely, struggling.
    — Katie Gavin, Time, 8 May 2026
  • No team is more sound or disciplined.
    — Sports Columnist, Austin American Statesman, 8 Jan. 2026
  • That was a challenge from a sound standpoint.
    — Joan MacDonald, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • There are sound reasons to tax gasoline.
    — Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Short bursts of sound waves nudged the kink a few disks at a time toward the sound source.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 22 Mar. 2026
  • If structure and movement are sound, the fluff and stuff is built up.
    — Andrew Norman Wilson, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Maybe that’s more of a sound-mixing problem.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The sound bath scene, which was once seen as obscure, has since blossomed.
    — Kailyn Brown, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2026
  • That feels like a sound strategy.
    — Vincent Z. Mercogliano, New York Times, 12 June 2026
  • There are turntables and sound equipment.
    — Jayne Yutig, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Apr. 2026
  • This means that, once approved, these loans are just as sound as any others.
    — Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 4 June 2026
  • People called this a ‘sound movie’, and not many movies are described that way.
    — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 17 Feb. 2026
  • The sound team also had to be careful not to pick up snoring.
    — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Aug. 2023

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