Sentence examples for sounds excessively from inspiring English sources

If all this sounds excessively high-minded it is regarded by Oversea Service as "sheer necessity".

A hot and dry desert is exactly how it sounds: excessively hot and dry.

"What may sound excessively 'girly' to me may sound smart, authoritative and strong to my students," she said.

For a group of powers with 2m men and women under arms, and ringed by potential war zones, neither the size of the force nor the 60-day notice sounded excessively ambitious.

Not only was the sound excessively loud and boring, it also spoke of former ways of creating expression through tones and rhythms, ways irrelevant to most of the achievements and intimations in the biennial.

That might sound excessively humble coming from a world champion – and it might not have pleased the man sitting beside Frampton at Windsor Park, the four-times major winner, Rory McIlroy – but the boxer was not far wrong.

"So not excessively excessive.

But the fact of gavage is the same for both, the final product extremely similar, so it seems to me a neat piece of casuistry to deem foie gras ethically sound – or "not excessively cruel" in Fearnley-Whittingstall's phrase – as long as it's "free-range".

Geckos have a single middle-ear muscle attached to the lateral part of the extracolumella; evidently, contractions of this muscle stiffen the extracolumella, thereby dampening the ossicular motions and protecting the ear against excessively intense sounds.

A recurring problem with early phonograph designs was that mechanical resonances in the pickup and sound transmission mechanism caused excessively large peaks and troughs in the frequency response, resulting in poor sound quality.

It was a day when members took to the microphones on the floor to make excessively partisan sound bites that seemed scripted for campaign commercials.