How to Use sounder in a Sentence

sounder

noun
  • Males or boars tend to roam alone though will join a sounder to mate.
    — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 5 Jan. 2021
  • As the sounder moves beyond it, the cloud appears closer to the ground.
    — Wired, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Then an echo-sounder detected a blob of krill that spread for miles below the ship.
    — Craig Welch, National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The microwave sounders are now very good at measuring that faint signal.
    — Alejandra Borunda, National Geographic, 26 Nov. 2019
  • This black-and-white baby toy set comes with crinkle paper and a bi-bi sounder hidden in the pages.
    — Nora Colomer, Fox News, 20 Feb. 2025
  • But because the depth sounder on the ship couldn’t measure such extreme depths, the crew employed a crude method.
    — Eliza Strickland, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Feb. 2012
  • As the sounder approaches a cloud, to the sensors, the cloud appears higher in the sky.
    — Wired, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Their kayaks carried echo-sounders and depth measurement equipment.
    — Asher Elbein, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2020
  • There was another small sounder of wild hogs that had been rooting around the Mitchell’s farmland in recent months.
    — Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Sounders defender Joevin Jones got to the ball, beat Powell and took a shot on frame.
    — Jamie Goldberg, OregonLive.com, 25 June 2017
  • Less than 10 seconds later, a sounder of warthogs—a mother and her babies—shot out from their underground den on the path ahead of us.
    — Alexandra Kirkman, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2024
  • If nothing else, the iconic five-note sounder will likely be ringing in their collective ears long after the hourly network newscasts end next month.
    — Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Tatum knew better execution and sounder decisions could have lifted his team and made its playoff road easier.
    — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Booby traps and tripwire mines worry them the most; one such trap killed a whole sounder of wild boars running in the forest, providing a ghastly reminder of the danger.
    — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Nov. 2022
  • The remote includes six customizable buttons that can be programmed with any of the sounder’s parameters.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 6 May 2021
  • Choices range from basic sounders to advanced flashers and digital graphing fish finders with GPS.
    — Travis Smola, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Would that a likely, later owner — the 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, had lived a sounder, more steadfast life.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
  • And Oman would not be the only country to benefit if its finances—and with them, its independent foreign policy—are put on a sounder footing.
    — Nikita Lalwani, Foreign Affairs, 14 Jan. 2020
  • But unlike Indiana, whose defense has a boom/bust feel to it, the Wildcats take a sounder approach by forcing teams into long drives and sitting back in a zone.
    — Stephen Means, cleveland, 19 Dec. 2020
  • Some of the most popular health claims on social media credit magnesium for better mood, fewer cramps, sounder sleep, and less anxiety—all of which might sound appealing to growing teens.
    — Alex Vance, Parents, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Other instruments, such as the infrared sounder on Aqua, capture temperature, water vapor, and dozens more variables globally each day.
    — Bypaul Voosen, science.org, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The super pigs have become adept at fending off recreational hunters, sometimes with entire sounders (the term for a group of pigs, generally led by mature sows) turning nocturnal to avoid the hunting.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Even after the Stars scored five or more goals three times against the Flames, the Avalanche are simply a stronger team – with a more dynamic offense, a sounder defense and better goaltending.
    — Jace Evans, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2020
  • The sooner the United States realizes that, the sounder and more constructive its Middle East policy will become.
    — Elliott Abrams, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2011
  • The sounder is one of six instruments aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has been circling its host planet since 2006.
    — Wired, 3 Aug. 2022
  • The size and scope of the package exceeded the expectations of a number of outside advocates, while answering demands from economists for a major new investment to get the economy on a sounder footing.
    — Author: Erica Werner, Jeff Stein, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Jan. 2021
  • More recently, observations from the many instruments called microwave sounders attached to different satellites orbiting the planet have become even more valuable to forecasters.
    — Alejandra Borunda, National Geographic, 26 Nov. 2019
  • The jingles and sounders used to identify CBS News network programming heard on the stations for decades have also been part of the listening experience.
    — Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Banks are also encouraged to offer financing to support acquisitions of real-estate projects by financially sounder developers from weaker ones.
    — Lingling Wei, WSJ, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Related Articles Playing a smarter, sounder, all-around team game should make things a bit easier for their goalies, too, as the Sharks allowed a league-high 2,881 shots on net this year.
    — Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 23 Apr. 2024

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