Sentence examples for sounded alien from inspiring English sources

Not only did an incredulous expression come over my uncle's face — raised eyebrows, marvelling nod — but the words just out of my mouth sounded alien even to me, pompous and lacking in conviction.

Thirty years ago the words twitter, or website would have sounded alien.

"There was this huge fear that they may be about to hear an album from me that sounded alien to them," she said, shifting into a sing-song delivery as she added, "like I'd be singing 'Dance, dance, dance in the club, club, club and the beat drops.'".

Then the chaos melts away into a clean open fifth, which sounds alien in context.

Benjamin might have described himself as following an ethos of boredom, which sounds alien to us all.

To ears steeped in that repertory, earlier harmonic styles can sound alien, and the further back in time you move, the odder the music sounds.

Entertainment industry conlangs have come a long way since Klingon was first uttered during Star Trek: The Motion Picture in 1979, having been devised by the actor James Doohan (Scotty) purely to sound "alien".

Although Dothraki, Valyrian, Navi (spoken in "Avatar") and Klingon (growled in "Star Trek") are designed to sound alien, they are also meant to seem natural, and imitate the features of real languages.

It is a sentiment that these days sounds alien in Moscow, where Mr. Putin has faced a challenge from a boisterous, though largely isolated, movement of urban elites whose ambitions and self-regard have outgrown the rigid confines of his rule.

Try new things, even if they sound alien to start with.

It sounds alien, gluey, oddly psychedelic, and hopelessly beautiful.