Sentence examples for sounds suggest from inspiring English sources

The lack of bowel sounds indicates a nonfunctioning or paralyzed bowel, and high-pitched "tinkling" bowel sounds suggest bowel obstruction.

The sounds suggest Hungarian or Greek, but Gheg with its nasal vowels strikes the ear as distinctive.

Furthermore, the temporal characteristics of experienced sounds suggest that sounds are not simple qualities.

He mentioned, though, that the "pieces with bell-like sounds suggest Europe and others with a drum-like resonance suggest the East".

Likewise, machines are anthropomorphized: sounds suggesting machines coming to life or walking or chattering.

Subjects are often left unmentioned in Japanese sentences, and onomatopoeia, with vernacular sounds suggesting meaning, is a virtue often difficult if not impossible to replicate in English.

Monk will perform the vocal duet — a conversation of sounds suggesting wanderers in the wilderness — with Theo Bleckmann, sharing the stage with Posin's dancers.

The piece contains recorded snippets of the Metropolitan Opera star Enrico Caruso singing Verdi's "Trovatore," which are combined with the increasingly distorted music box sounds, suggesting the dissolution of an era, a gilded age enjoying its last gasp.

His record label, Signature Sounds, "suggested I do an instrumental CD because the scene is so cluttered with singer-songwriters," said Mr. Williams, who will perform on Saturday with the guitarist John Daniels at the Vanilla Bean Cafe in Pomfret.

Those words open the album; they're roughed up by software, and greeted by a regal saxophone, a sampled whisper from a Mahalia Jackson tune, and resplendent guitars — all sounds suggesting a range of possibilities beyond Vernon's despair.

As a laptop emitted music punctuated by soft, crackling sounds suggesting distant rifle fire, or perhaps jungle brush snapping underfoot, some dancers lay as flat as corpses; others sat upright, like tombstones.