Sentence examples for sounded out for from inspiring English sources

Several who were sounded out for their interest in the chairmanship were appalled at the prospect.

It was claimed that Lisa Nandy, the shadow Energy Secretary, had been sounded out for the role.

He would be surprised if his countryman is not at least sounded out for the position by those on the sixth floor at Hampden.

Had he not been forced out, he might be BBC director general right now – he was sounded out for the job last year.

Martin Jol, who left his role as Tottenham's manager earlier this season, is also thought to have been sounded out for a return to Premier League football.

Mr. Breaux was the first Democrat Mr. Bush invited to Austin, Tex., after the election to be sounded out for a cabinet position.

A week later he was sounded out, not for the first time, about a confidentiality agreement.

When he was a young man, Hitchens was once sounded out about standing for Parliament as a Labour candidate.

And Blackstone has sounded out potential leaders for Dell should the company's founder decide to step down from an active managerial role.

His agent, Mino Raiola, has sounded out potential suitors for the troubled forward and clubs in China and Turkey have expressed a firm interest.

Yet quieter voices have sounded out reasonable proposals for compromise.During Israel's painful birth in 1948, some 750,00 Palestinians, or three-quarters of the native population, fled their homeland or were forced out, never to be allowed back.