Sentence examples for sound benign from inspiring English sources

In economics, the first stages of warming often sound benign.

Other Republican club names also sound benign: the Eagles, the Majority Council.

Such involvement may sound benign but it is state control by any other name.

He might sound benign, but his heavy tread resounds through contemporary male consciousness.

There are exclusions for "order-taking" and "educational material", which may sound benign but could in clever hands be used for unscrupulous marketing.

"I started using weights when I was 16," says Cassils. "I had undiagnosed gall bladder disease in my teens, which may sound benign now, but back in 1987 it wasn't something doctors looked for in young girls".

In that climate, Similac's message sounds benign.

THE exhibition at the Brookfield Craft Center sounds benign and much of it is.

Your proposed transaction sounds benign if you call it a "bonus" rather than a "bribe".

That sounds benign, but advocates have raised legitimate concerns over its lack of oversight and internal controls.

But while the "sharing economy" sounds benign enough, it is, in its way, not so very different to the traditional "grey economy".