Sentence examples for a string of sound from inspiring English sources

He believes all names to be perfectly faithful descriptions of their objects, with the consequence that a string of sound embodying a less than accurate description of some object could never be that object's name.

As a further consequence he also holds, conversely, that a string of sound which did succeed in being the object's name would be a guaranteed source of knowledge about it.

A string of unsuccessful sound pictures, together with a violent quarrel with Harry Cohn, the head of Columbia Pictures, virtually ended her career in the late 1930s.

However, human infants exposed to a string of speech sounds can learn transitional (chaining) cues.

Traditional approaches to phonology are linear, which means that they represent each word as nothing more than a string of speech sounds (called segments).

Across lovely, windswept Galicia under mackerel skies and overnights in a string of cities that sound like the tour itinerary of a fading rock band.

As the soft-lead pencil glides across the paper, it creates a string of inputs (they sound like a cat purring), enabling the device to understand stopping and starting points on the page.

Over the next few years, she played at a string of clubs that sound like a roll call from another musical era: the Hotel New Yorker, with Ving Merlin and his All-Girl Band; Upstairs at the Downstairs, with Blossom Dearie and Imogene Coca Billy Rosee's Diamond Horseshoe; the Versailles; Le Perroquet.

The article, published in 2002, reported that rhesus monkeys can distinguish a novel string of sounds from a control sequence, an issue which has important bearing on their capacity for language.

Someone set off a string of firecrackers, which sounded like gunfire.

"Even growing up around it, little shards of the language stayed alive in our mouths and came out as slang," he said, spouting a string of words that sounded straight out of a James Cagney movie.