Sentence examples for irritating sounds from inspiring English sources

This aural snapshot of New York streets transforms normally irritating sounds, like sirens and honking horns, into a compelling musical fabric.

In April Dr Anderson set out to test whether a recording of him singing the "gathering songs" used during traditional round-ups would be as effective at herding cattle as irritating sounds such as barking dogs, or electric shocks.

He considers with pity the case of Vladimir Nabokov, who famously said he experienced music merely as "an arbitrary succession of more or less irritating sounds"; he also wonders about how little music is mentioned in Henry James's work.

He quotes Nabokov's autobiography Speak, Memory: "Music, I regret to say, affects me as an arbitrary succession of more or less irritating sounds … The concert piano and all wind instruments bore me in small doses and flay me in larger ones".

LV6 also mentioned that it limits her walking speed and produces irritating sounds when walking on a rough surface thus drawing unwanted attention from passersby.

After squelching my initial impulse to pepper the perpetrator with rabbit pellets, I started ruminating on what life was like before the advent of such annoyances, before electricity and steam engines, back to the time when fire, water and whale blubber powered the world, and the most irritating sounds were of the sharks smacking their lips on a ship-side catch.

Having interviewed Manko, we were distracted by the irritating buzzing sound of a police helicopter.

(Anderson's sound designer, Christopher Scarabosio, went to great lengths to make toast sound irritating).

Try to take hints: if your girlfriend or boyfriend sounds irritated, just tell them that you have to go, you love them, and you will text them later.

When asked the same question, Mr. Bush sounded irritated.

You can hear the words and you can hear the melody, but that sound irritates you.