Sentence examples for sound true from inspiring English sources

We are especially looking for things that sound true but aren't.

Details like that made his songs sound true; but his delivery helped too.

But, happily for us, it seems that he left in many poems which sound true for us but which for him might have been merely plausible.

The test of making language sound true to period is one even the best writers flunk at some point; anachronism is the sleeping monster of the historical novel.

I could not make my central character sound true, somehow; there was something basically at odds between her personality as I saw it and the actions she was called on to perform.

Adele's success is built on being an everywoman: her songs are specific enough to sound true, but general enough that they sound less like a personal statement of despair than a hug from someone who knows exactly what you've been through.

Some devices will sound truer than others, so try to find good quality recording and playback gear.

It sounded true.

That also sounds true.

When Bainbridge says this it sounds true.

7. Glen Velez, "Breathing Rhythms" (Sounds True).