Sentence examples for long sounds from inspiring English sources

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

Throughout this brief film, just a few heart-stopping minutes long, sounds the aching beauty of Bach's Suite No. 1 for cello.

Roll Call for Those Absent, triggered by recent African-American deaths at police hands and a spoken-word piece on Akinmusire's new album was a dramatically gripping instrumental here, unfolded by the leader in translucent long sounds and squeezed-valve elisions, and transformed by a fierce drum soliloquy from Justin Brown that was such a stark contrast as to border on the traumatising.

Secondly, the available evidence suggests that at least in some languages with phonological quantity, the long sounds tend to be coupled with dynamic f0 movement, and, vice versa, in tone languages in general, contour tones tend to be longer in duration than level tones [30].

Mr McLaren has long sounded like a martyr.

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

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

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.

Governments and conservationists have long sounded the alarm, but no one really controls the open seas or has found the limits of the human appetite for luxury seafood.