Sentence examples for may sound high from inspiring English sources

(That may sound high, but in particle physics it is a result of only middling significance).

While that valuation may sound high, it would represent a not unreasonable multiple of some 12 times annualized earnings.

The result is intense, complex vintages that can go up to a dizzy 16% alcohol, which may sound high compared with other wines, but is very much the natural expression of the cannonau grape.

While short-term interest rates may sound high in India, they are only slightly above inflation, with prices up 9.5 percent in August from a year ago at the consumer level and up 6.1 percent at the wholesale level.

"With a price tag of as much as $7 billion, the cost of fixing America's nuclear vulnerabilities may sound high, specially given the heated budget debate occurring in Washington," Mr. Alvarez wrote.

Those prices may sound high for 35-year-old Japanese compacts — the prices are roughly what the cars sold for when new — but they are low compared with, say, a vintage Alfa Romeo or Chevrolet Camaro.

His second response is that while the academic training he proposes may sound high-minded, it should be especially useful to daily journalists.

That may sound high-toned, but rest assured that as boiled down for television, much of what's left are the good bits: incest, matricide, bloody self-flagellation, a weeping Madonna, sex in a dungeon, childbirth in a collapsing church and, in a particularly jaw-dropping moment, urination on a bishop.

All of this may sound high-minded and esoteric, but each of us carries a small burden.

It may not sound high, but experts say demand for oil is so inflexible, and the world has so little spare production capacity, that even small shortfalls can raise prices.

Those last two may not sound high but in reality, when you use them, do you really keep it to one tablespoon?