Sentence examples for barely sound from inspiring English sources

Ms. Carey is known for her voice, of course: she can hit high notes that barely sound human, and few singers leap around the octaves as gracefully as she does.

The album's centerpiece is "The Harlequin Forest," a nearly 12-minute-long composition full of extremes that barely sound extreme: whether Mikael Akerfeldt is roaring or crooning, the mood hardly changes.

He called Carey's voice "invariably astonishing", and said that "she can hit high notes that barely sound human", praised her versatility, and wrote that she "also knows how to make a hip-hop hit by holding back and letting the beat shine".

Under the whole book runs a strong but barely sounded obligato: the love for his wife, Victoria.

Most extraordinary about Markovits's achievement here is the sustained voice, a careful imitation of early 19th-century prose that barely sounds a wrong note.

But at the hearing, the administrator, Michael Griffin, and the survey's designers disagreed so deeply about the purpose of the survey and its usefulness that they barely sounded as if they were talking about the same project.

At Prom 4, one of the most high-profile concerts of the 2014 BBC Proms season so far, the last note had barely sounded before the applause, warm but not ecstatic, began.

This kind of desperate ploy isn't supposed to work, but it did: in 1983, Yes topped the American pop chart with "Owner of a Lonely Heart," which barely sounded like it had come from the same band.

My Number, instead, takes what could have been the body of a song from Antidotes and pumps it up until it's something so muscular it barely sounds like the work of the same band: the chiming, vaguely African guitars of the debut are still there, but they are just an accessory, not the means of propulsion.

Coleman's Old Gospel is a raucous prayer-meeting knees-up for McLean's hot soliloquies and his own squirted interjections, and Strange As It Seems has such eerie Coleman flurries and skitters behind the sax, he barely sounds like a trumpeter at all.

Also, it barely sounds American.