Sound in sentence

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But the most common explanation for why your stretched-out joints sound like bubbles popping is that, well, there are bubbles in there.

These are sentences that can stand on their own, but when connected by semicolons, look and sound better because they're related in some way.

But comparative linguistics can help us by focusing on grammatical structure, patterns of sound changes, and certain core vocabulary.

For example, after the 6th century, German words starting with "p," systematically shifted to a "pf" sound while their Old English counterparts kept the "p" unchanged.

In another split, words that have "sk" sounds in Swedish developed an "sh" sound in English.

Only because her name happens to sound like a boy's was she able to finagle her way into the government immigration exam to come to the United States.

Ten years later, his track record is one more proof point that sustainable investing done right can be sound investing.

Facing a decision, ask yourself, "What concepts are at work?" "What assumptions exist?" "Is my interpretation of the information logically sound?"

It might sound like a funny question, but we have to ask ourselves: Is there any 21st-century skill more important than being able to sustain coherent, confident conversation?"

Remember, they have no control over who is going to say what, or how articulate the speaker will sound.

It also creates the characteristic sound: "hic."

Sound is different.

Audible sound has a wavelength that can be up to 50 feet long.

Instead, we use sound to listen for features like pitch and tone and rhythm and volume to infer a story behind the sounds.

So if we convert the wave patterns into pressure waves and air, into sound, we can literally hear the Universe speaking to us.

That may sound like a long time, but when you consider that our universe is 14 billion years old, on a cosmic scale, it's incredibly fast - the equivalent of about 2.5 hours in an entire year.

At a 10-year memorial for the genocide, he reflected, "I believed at the time I was doing my best, but I realized after the genocide that there was more I could and should have done to sound the alarm and rally support."

Our role as health professionals is not just to treat our patients but to sound the alarm and advocate for change.

I regret not speaking up in Zimbabwe, and I've promised myself that as New York City's Health Commissioner, I will use every opportunity I have to sound the alarm and rally support for health equity.

And the disappointment in the sound of someone's voice was and, I would say, still is our single greatest motivator to keep improving.

NR: Really, it's not going to sound very exciting, because it was a day of walking with your backpack and your GPS and notebook and just picking up anything that might be a fossil.

So, you can play a video game, drive through a piece of music, use your body gesture to control huge masses of sound, touch a special surface to make melodies, use your voice to make a whole aura.

Every single book is robotic, so they all move, they all make sound, and when you put them all together, they turn into these walls, which have the gesture and the personality of Simon Powers.

And I want to hear the cat purring, not the sound of the fans in the computer.

This might sound incredibly obvious, because it should be, but sadly, this isn't normal for government.

Now, maybe that doesn't sound like a lot to you.

I was trained as a composer, and about 15 years ago, I started making pieces that were designed to look at the intersection between sound and image, to use an image to unveil a musical structure or to use a sound to show you something interesting about something that's usually pictorial.

It's listening to the 911 feed of the New Orleans Police Department, so that anytime there's a shooting reported in New Orleans, (Gunshot sound) the gun fires.

But when I hear the sound of the shelling or the sound of the bombing, I just head straight toward it, because I want to be there first, because these stories should be told.

When my children were small and we heard the sound of the war, I used to tell them that they were fireworks.

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