Sentence examples for sounds wrong to from inspiring English sources

The substitution sounds wrong to Gogol, correct but off key, the way it sounds when his parents speak English to him instead of Bengali.

"If this sounds wrong to you, that's because it is fundamentally wrong," Mr. Kerry declared before more than 1,000 people at Palm Beach Community College.

After years of "developing your ear for the sounds of language" she doesn't have to think about "why a particular clump of syllables sounds wrong to my ear.

"He was funny," I say, which sounds wrong to both of us the moment it is out because Rob was never a guy who always had to be on.

But "bona fides is …" is also likely to sound wrong to many readers.

Indeed, even certain words of encouragement can sometimes sound wrong to an ear attuned to a new frequency.

The roughness of one era's poetic practice may be as offensive to a later reader as the smoothness of another's: Collins may sound wrong to us in the same way that Shakespeare sounded wrong to Collins.

A few examples: If John ran around a one-mile racetrack while Mary was running around a pond with a three-mile circumference, then Mary ran farther than John — but it would sound wrong to say she ran further.

A few examples: If John ran around a one-mile racetrack while Mary was running around a pond with a three-mile circumference, then Mary ran farther than John but it would sound wrong to say she ran further.

However, with other kinds of costs, or objectionable features, it may sound wrong to say even that one has reason for the means.

I hope that sounded wrong to you as well because it is.