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Examples of sounding

sounding

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

Instead of sounding as if they were coming from some specific location, extremely loud honks and cracks may appear simply as present to the listener.
They feared that the result could be that they would end up sounding like their students rather than the other way around.
Normally in this task, any participant who mentions noticing similar sounding object names is excluded from data analysis.
These analyses revealed that children's lexicons contain more similar sounding words than previous analyses indicated.
It is impossible to divorce soothing vocalizations being positive reinforcers from their sounding the way they do.
In considering sound identity, extrinsic links to sounding objects, to symbols or to gestural analogies can be investigated.
A human agent, using the sense of touch, or an implement, applies energy to a sounding body, producing spectromorphologies.
An interruption by something sounding like a switch leads into a chorus of voices speaking about an undisclosed quasi-scientific process.
I want to be able to hear the process happening throughout the sounding music.
Unfortunately - if not surprisingly - each of these senses, in isolation, comes off sounding rather silly.
At the risk of sounding overly trite-no method is a panacea; each comes with its own set of advantages and disadvantages.
By defending liberty and not explicitly rejecting equality, however, they ended up sounding very much like liberals.
But a new level of absorption, of deep listening, is required to probe the meaning of this sounding object.
With interactive music, however, the sounding body is returned to the listener.
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