Sentence examples for sound false from inspiring English sources

But we may also sound false alarms around 1985 and 1996.

But, by degrees, almost everything he says begins to sound false.

Only when he tries to look on the bright side does Mr. Tamahori sound false notes.

As her biological mother, Bernice Graves, Bette Midler is a blowsy, plump loudmouth and bottle redhead whose obsequious behavior makes much of what she says sound false.

Bakht Wali smiled as he sat on a bed of woven rattan in the courtyard of a farmer's mud-walled home in Chakdara, perhaps because he knew his answer might sound false, after discussing the miserable deaths some of those who went with him into Afghanistan almost certainly met.

In an offline setting, the researchers instructed the machine to sound false alarms, disabled them, and forced it to display incorrect vitals.

Kendall's laugh sounded false to him.

He wondered if it sounded false to Jimmy.

There's not a single bad lyric here, and not a note sounds false or timid.

Humility sounds false when it emerges from a multimillionaire A-lister's mouth, yet a blase tone seems arrogant.

The instruction, which the Victorians so valued, sounds false to us now, full of unearned confidence about the benevolence of man and nature.