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Discover LudwigThe phrase "jarring sound" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe a sound that is abrupt, shocking, or unsettling to the listener. Example: "The jarring sound of the alarm clock startled me awake in the early morning."
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There was no announcer, no jarring sound effects or graphics.
The loud buzzers were a jarring sound in a city still on edge from the shootings last month.
The door was still beeping, the way a jarring sound grows in a scene until you realize it's an alarm clock and it was all a dream.
In English, the nightjar owes its name to the harsh, discordant, jarring sound it makes from its perch among the dark tree leaves in the stillness of night.
The unmistakably jarring sound of an iPhone marimba ring interrupted the soft and spiritual final measures of Mahler's Symphony No. 9 at the New York Philharmonic on Tuesday night.
Vickie Gresge, a resident of the Grayrock neighborhood where the crash occurred, said she heard the jarring sound — "like a big metal crash; very, very heavy" — and looked out the window to see a cloud of dust near the tracks.
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More often, Mr. Surman and Mr. Guy latch onto Dowland's melancholy, dark-hued texts -- lines like "my music hellish jarring sounds, to banish friendly sleep," in the title song -- and provide nightmarish commentary.
For nearly a century, the Ford suffered the indignities of being the scrawny kid next door, enduring the jarring sounds of, say, a Black Sabbath performance roaring over the canyon, or the rumble from Highway 101, which runs by it, as a classical ensemble soldiered on.
Perhaps his greatest, In Darknesse Let Me Dwell, is worth quoting: "In darknesse let me dwell, the ground shall sorrow be,/ The roof, despair to bar all cheerful light from me./ The walls of marble black, that moisten'd still shall weep./ My music, hellish, jarring sounds to banish friendly sleep./ Thus wedded to my woes and bedded to my tomb,/ O, let me living die, til death do come".
It's like an aural assault of jarring sounds, and so far I feel discouraged.
The April 19 show at Madison Square Garden will feature a reduction of jarring sounds and strobe lights.
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