Sentence examples for sounds certain from inspiring English sources

When he lights on certain sounds, certain small moments inside a poem -- hesitations, silences, shifts in pressure, sudden entrances, slamming doors -- they suggest whole territories, completed stories, indistinct ceremonies, far outside anything that can be literally traced into the compositions that carry them.

Historian/music critic Greil Marcus coined the term "yarragh" to refer to the indescribable impact of "certain sounds, certain small moments inside a song [which] can then suggest whole territories, completed stories, indistinct ceremonies, far outside anything that can be literally traced in the compositions that carry them".

Socrates would often elicit such a statement by asking the person to define something, like "What is justice?" or "What is truth?" You can employ the Socratic method using any declarative statement which a person sounds certain of, like "This table is blue".

But the panelists did not sound certain that it could.

He said he would pitch only for the Yankees, and sounded certain they would keep him.

Tuck and Coach Tom Coughlin said no surgery was expected, but they did not sound certain.

But to a man, from Backe to Rodgers to Henry, they sounded certain that the best is yet to come.

With Flutie expected to return as the No. 2 quarterback for this Sunday's game against Indianapolis, Phillips did not sound certain about sticking to his original plan.

There's one sound certain to make a male panda swoon: the high-pitched chirp of a female panda.

Bassist Nate Mendel added that "we grew up making records on tape, which has a certain sound, certain limitations", and drummer Taylor Hawkins said that the digital recording in contemporary rock n' roll lead to an artificial sound : "they kinda played it and then how someone else manipulated it in a computer, to make them sound a certain way".

Adjust hands to sound certain notes.