Sentence examples for quietly sounding from inspiring English sources

He spoke briefly, and quietly, sounding somewhere between frustrated and deflated.

The African Union has been quietly sounding out potential hosts, but those negotiations have been closely guarded.

Blockbuster executives have been quietly sounding out potential merger partners like Columbia House, the direct marketing company.

We need a 'Wow!' " "DON'T BE SHY," Mr. Girard says quietly, sounding like a soulful host of a midnight jazz show while talking to a new singer with a fluttering vocal moan.

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Andreas Whittam Smith – the recently appointed chairman of Independent Print Limited, the publishing company behind the Independent, Independent on Sunday and 20p stablemate i – has been given the task of quietly sounding out potential buyers for the loss-making titles by proprietors Alexander and Evgeny Lebedev.

"We didn't start out with such thoughts," Brawn says quietly, not sounding at all arrogant.

(Although she wasn't aware of his deep literary interest growing up, her father would turn out to harbor writerly ambitions of his own, which expressed themselves in the form of a novel he wrote that was published shortly after he died. "His book was the last thing we talked about," she says, sounding quietly victorious).

The Channel 5 owner was said to have quietly taken soundings on the value of the broadcaster, just like he did with his print assets two years ago.

I do my recovery work privately, quietly — " For a minute, Lawford was sounding a lot like another Kennedy cousin who has recently heeded the call of public service.

Instead of sounding the alarm, EPA official Susan Hedman "quietly fought" with Michigan's department of environmental quality (DEQ) for about six months.