"sounded grave" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to describe a voice or sound that conveys a serious or solemn tone or feeling. For example: "The news of the accident sounded grave and dire."
"I do not think this particular situation sounds grave, but sometimes people involved in an incident like this find they cannot live in their community anymore".
Patients' complaints over the phone could sound graver than they actually are.
In the past, the politicians of the Awami League had sounded such grave alarms about fundamentalist Islam that, Mohsin said, "the religious have come to think that Islam is under attack".
But I had sounded so grave when I announced that I needed to "discuss something important" with her that she smiled with relief when she realized it was only baby names.
At that point, he raised his concerns with military officers in Naples, but he did not make his questions official or sound grave enough to remove the target from the list, the officials said.
He knows 387 points looks big, sounds grave.
Small wonder that Barack Obama sounds so grave.On April 20th an explosion crippled the Deepwater Horizon, an offshore oil rig.
When not in Rome Reprints Related topics Democratic Party (United States Baltimoree Republican Party (United States United Statess federal budget Federal deficitsThe loss of a percentage point or two from the city's budget may not sound so grave.
Well, one day about a year later I was talking to John Henman, and something told me he hadn't done what he had promised to do, so I had another man come over here and sound the grave with a metal rod, and just as I had suspected, John Henman had crossed me up; he had only gone six feet down.
And my view is going back and looking at it, that it was packaged together in a way that made it sound more grave, more urgent, and more serious than it was.
