How to Use sound off in a Sentence

sound off

verb
  • Reply to this email and sound off.
    — Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Access them before first light and wait for a tom to sound off.
    — Gerald Almy, Field & Stream, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Thousands have sounded off on the video.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Part of taking care of your job on the field is making sure things are sound off of it.
    — Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Here Merry sounds off on all these topics and more.
    — Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 7 Dec. 2025
  • Take a look at the new photos below, then sound off in the comments!
    — Nick Caruso, TVLine, 25 Sep. 2025
  • View some more first photos below, then sound off in the comments.
    — Nick Caruso, TVLine, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Grade the episode via the following poll, then sound off below.
    — Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 27 Feb. 2025
  • That should sound off alarms in Milwaukee.
    — Justin Grasso, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2025
  • Grab your girlfriends, wear your florals, and sound off in the comments!
    — Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 20 Aug. 2024
  • Many said that the romantic language sounded off for the man of few words.
    — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 24 Mar. 2025
  • There’s an option to toggle the sound off and a power saving mode.
    — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Do everyone a favor and just put it in your locker (with the sound off, please).
    — Christa Sgobba, SELF, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Many people who take time to sound off are anti-wine, or at least anti-snobbery.
    — Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2021
  • But on the day she was last seen alive, Seymore said, her daughter sounded off.
    — Matt Lavietes, NBC News, 11 July 2024
  • But then, shrugging the sounds off as fireworks, everyone stood back up.
    — Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 16 Feb. 2024
  • From there on the two teams looked to find ways to generate offense but the bats were not sounding off.
    — Mukala Kabongo, Boston Herald, 14 June 2026
  • The sound off the racquet of Ben Shelton’s flat serve is a thwack cranked to eleven.
    — Gerald Marzorati, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Videos from the scene show plumes of smoke, blown out windows on nearby buildings, and sirens sounding off.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 17 May 2025
  • That’s not a knock — the thing is designed to bounce sound off walls — but be aware of that limitation.
    — Sheena Vasani, The Verge, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Why does the alarm seem to sound off earlier and earlier every day?
    — Leah Hall, Country Living, 22 Dec. 2022
  • The high pitch siren of the casualty bots sounded off in the distance.
    — Manuel Muñoz, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • See fans sound off and express an outpouring of excitement in the video above.
    — John Pana, cleveland, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Watch Willow with the sound off, and be transported to a far-off kingdom.
    — Jesse Hassenger, Chron, 30 Nov. 2022
  • In the event of a fire, this smoke detector will sound off the alarm with a loud, 85-decibel beep.
    — Nor'adila Hepburn, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 May 2023
  • The artist never revealed what caused the reaction, but asked for fans' grace in case a note sounded off.
    — Kaycee Sloan, Cincinnati Enquirer, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Then children came home spouting phrases that sounded off, even foreign.
    — Simon Akam, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Roman was willing to sound off on almost anything—why not a few words about the origins of turmeric?
    — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2021
  • Francis then sounded off on the critics and naysayers who have seemingly lined up to wrong him.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 14 May 2026
  • Grade the finale, and Season 1 overall, then sound off in the comments!
    — Claire Franken, TVLine, 29 July 2025

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