sounded
Example Sentences
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That has always sounded conservative — or at least, reasonable.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
It sounded harsh, but it meant his opinion was worth having.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
A few months ago, that would have sounded like the delusional ramblings of someone with no chance at winning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Witnesses described hearing what they said sounded like an explosion at the open-air artisanal gold mine on Wednesday afternoon, moments before the workers below were trapped.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Skeptical readers couldn’t help wondering why spirits of people who had lived in places as different as eighteenth-century Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts, all sounded like a nineteenth-century Quaker abolitionist from western New York.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
