Sentence examples for ear sounds from inspiring English sources

One of these ventures is a Russian-made hybrid vehicle whose name, to the Russian ear, sounds like "Fuck-Mobile".

And the word "Amazon", to an ancient Greek ear, sounds a lot like "a-" meaning "without", and "mastos" meaning "breast".

By the way, stylistic convention in effect here requires me to refer to him as Sir Richard, which to my ear sounds almost as weird as calling the also-knighted Mick Jagger Sir Mick.

The stars were the "voices" - Jimmy Hibbert, Martin Oldfield and Jayne Dowell - who read the excerpts with gusto in the appropriate accent or, in the case of the Times chief foreign commentator, Bronwen Maddox, who to my ear sounds American, with a Welsh lilt.

Inside the ear, sounds are somehow amplified by "hair" cells that bob like a pogo stick.

For instance, a sentence that to my untrained ear sounds like "shuh shuh shuh," is in fact made up of three distinct words.

His doctrine was preached using words that, to the Chinese ear, sounded foreign.

Even tamer badinage in this country can, to a foreign ear, sound like enmity.

The general's claims for France's "exalted and exceptional destiny" may, to today's ear, sound over the top.

We evaluated the effect of malleus presence or absence on middle ear sound transmission after middle ear reconstruction in a temporal bone model.

One song moved to a brusquely swinging modal funk vamp that, to a Western ear, sounded something like Louisiana zydeco.