Sentence examples for long sound from inspiring English sources

The people around there give the "y" the long sound.

"Buy your squashes with long, sound stems," she said.

Acoustic-gravity waves are very long sound waves that cut through the deep ocean at the speed of sound.

We will hence refer to the long sound as a "dah" and the short sound as a "dit" throughout the rest of the site.

Because the path of a lightning channel is usually branched, tortuous, and very long, sound waves from more distant portions arrive later than those from nearer portions, accounting for the duration of thunder and for the characteristic claps and rumbles.

The international Morse code standard is composed of long and short sounds/signals, with the long sound exactly three times the length of the short sound; spaces within a character have the length of a dit.

Mr McLaren has long sounded like a martyr.

Mr Wickremesinghe has long sounded more willing than the president to deal directly with the Tigers.

Alarm bells have long sounded about abusive, injurious treatment of young girls in the sport.

TOKYO — As Japan's fiscally conservative finance minister, Yoshihiko Noda long sounded the alarm on the nation's ballooning government debt.

I like hearing the different rhythms the rain plays when it hits a roof or pavement, the long sounds of cars splashing through puddles.