Sentence examples for started softly from inspiring English sources

U-S-A!" chant started softly.

The boos started softly and were initially heard only when Bryant scored a basket.

The staccato chant started softly in the student section and then expanded into a robust tribute.

Things started softly, with a three-round preface: Golovkin stalked Jacobs with his fists up, as predatory as a portrait photographer, trying to create the perfect frame for the perfect shot.

The motor controlled by a pulse width modulated inverter started softly decreasing its starting current.

The noises started softly, at approximately 40 decibels about as loud as a quiet home.

The state's arsenal starts, softly, with "acceptable behaviour contracts", first introduced in 1999, in which tearaways promise to calm down.

Accordingly, rather than launching as a finished product with a bang, Scratchr will start softly and evolve – "a scratch of a scratch," Jubb calls it.

But it starts softly with two Malian musicians, Afel Bocoum and ngoni player Bassekou Kouyate, and it's left for Ghanaian rapper M.anifest to get the crowd's arms aloft.

Beethoven's Ninth Symphony starts softly, almost imperceptibly, with A and E gleaming in the horns and shimmering in the strings: we tune in to an eternity-in-progress. Wagner's four-day "Ring" cycle is set in motion by a similar cosmogenic drone: an E-flat rumbles deep in the "mystic abyss," as the orchestra pit in Bayreuth is called, and wave upon wave of consonant harmony emanates from it.

We have two or three pieces of music to play, and they start softly.