Sentence examples for merely sound from inspiring English sources
Where the Waterboys at their best are elemental and windswept, tonight they merely sound blustery.
What's more, a good short song can be hard to find - so many merely sound like fragments or half-baked fillers, and still more act as intros, outros and incidental interludes.
(Ms. Sharzer also directed.) The novel is written from Melinda's perspective, but in the film we get her inner thoughts only in voiceovers, and these are so brief and widely scattered that rather than fleshing out her personality, they merely sound like not-very-original snide remarks.
It's possible that perfectly blameless words that merely sound like n-words would fall under his editorial scalpel.
A speech should be made for a good reason: To inspire, to instruct, to rally support, or to lead to action are noble purposes -- but not to merely sound off, to feed a speaker's ego, to flatter, to intimidate, or to shame.
Trying to sound lyrical, she merely sounds silly.
His interpretations were intelligent, whereas others' merely sounded attractive.
The more restrained "Roads" merely sounds earnestly plodding.
Tomorrow's Modern Boxes merely sounds like the commander-in-chief slipping quietly into the ranks of cannon fodder.
Sewell slagged off trendy art far more wittily than typical conservatives who merely sounded old and tired.
Various mantras are either spoken aloud or merely sounded internally in one's thoughts, and they are either repeated continuously for some time or just sounded once.
