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Examples of sounded

sounded

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

As a poem about echoes, these echoes are sounded in the present, invoke the past, but also look into the future.
It sounded like a raven being answered by others.
Without a score available, it is virtually impossible to discern what this moment sounded like.
This sort of behaviour has long sounded critical alarm bells.
The teacher expected pupils to produce work that sounded effective, and they responded well to this challenge.
We stayed on east and west sides and sounded all around but anyone got in boat from the ship got wet through.
Only a few years ago it would have sounded bizarre to call language a "resource," except in the respectable sense of culture or literature.
Two cautionary notes must be sounded with respect to the present findings.
Reminding citizens that families are the moral center of society sounded friendlier and less pedagogical than talking only about personal self-control and discipline.
However, in the absence of more detailed empirical evidence, two notes of caution should be sounded.
Whether the reading was sounded or silent was immaterial.
Now it sounded grotesque, terrifying, this violation, this battering of music.
When they dropped the vibrato, it sounded stronger.
Recording may also be understood as a form of transcription; as if we had actually been there the music would have sounded very different.
The first finding was that the children from 'singing group' stated that they liked the way their voices sounded in both speech and singing.
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