"noises" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it when discussing something that makes sound, or when giving a description of a certain sound. For example: "All he could hear was the loud noises coming from the construction site outside his window."
As well as whalers' harpoons, whales must navigate the dangers of ship strikes, entanglements in shipping nets and other ocean apparatus, disorientating man-made ocean noises, habitat destruction, resource exploitation, climate change and pollution.
The Coalition made noises about reforming it, but didn't do anything – perhaps because the sums involved are comparatively small, at about £300m annually in tax and National Insurance contributions.
Even the government has made loud noises about curbing tax avoidance, giving £900m to Revenue & Customs to fight it.
Of course, it's likely that when he swung his head around and gawped intently at a recent episode of Game of Thrones, he was simply distracted by all the colours and noises.
On the night of 11 June 2012, Sheehy's next-door neighbour Ben Hawes, a former Great Britain hockey captain, heard raised voices coming from her flat and noises that sounded like a cross between "a shout and a scream".
It walked out of negotiations with NHS Employers about the contractual implications of seven-day working last October, although it has since made conciliatory noises about resuming discussions.
Your ear can discern the slightest perceptible sound, even through the shrillest of noises.
Her other unique tweak to the conventional tour experience was to make loud animal noises during lulls in the conversation.
Wouldn't a true modern equivalent of Aphex be a series of barely assimilable noises, so futuristic we'd need a different system to enjoy or understand them?
McKibben says: "BP's 'beyond petroleum' shtick was one of the great PR moves of all time, but it never amounted to anything – nor will the pious purring noises they're making now," he argues.
But my feeling is, cheer up, kid, you've got your whole life ahead of you: making your first rudimentary noises, rolling over, scoring that first record contract, etc. Do we have princes?
