Sentence examples for at first sounding from inspiring English sources

Dressed in a clerical collar and camouflage pants, her feet bare and her head shorn, Ms. O'Connor exuded an appealing humility in her approach to the music, at first sounding tentative and fiddling with the sound mix, but eventually, in the sustaining embrace of the Abyssinian Baptist Church choir, bringing the performance to an electrifying climax.

The Rev. Dr. Joseph E. Lowry, 87, a warhorse of the civil-rights movement, gave the final prayer, at first sounding as if the cold had frozen his vocal cords.

Ally Tubis, a 29-year-old star in the male-dominated data analysis field, explained that at first sounding far younger than her years helped her to feel safe.

It would be dangerous for people and for animals". The 13-member council met in an emergency session to decide what to do, and issued a warning to tell people to be ready to seek high ground at the first sounding of an alarm.

The chamber's concerns centered on the most controversial aspect of the program, which allows whistle-blowers to expose fraud without first sounding the alarms at their company.

It seemed ungainly at first, awkward sounding and unrevealing.

From 1930 to 1936 he worked at Jericho and made the first soundings to reach very early strata that antedated the use of pottery.

The first soundings were performed in 1994.

It was eventually modified by the addition of keys that at first marked off sounding lengths on the single string.

On Friday night, he struggled at first with his voice, sounding scratchy and earthbound, and he apologized for throat trouble.

"We're in very difficult times right now, very different times than we've been," he told us, sounding at first like any other politician, then segueing to a darker place.