How to Use sound like in a Sentence

sound like

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  • This doesn't sound like a lot, but every inch helps with these tiny houses.
    Adam Williams july 07, New Atlas, 7 July 2026
  • In some ways, Ligeti’s ending doesn’t even sound like an ending.
    Alex Ross, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • All interesting, but all sound like more – or less – of the same.
    Howard Homonoff, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
  • For Kivlen, the down time was a chance to find out what a solo record from him might sound like.
    Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 9 July 2026
  • Freedom, taken alone, can sound like the absence of constraint.
    Sreedhar Potarazu, Baltimore Sun, 4 July 2026
  • What might a language that rises up from the grassroots sound like, that is so cellular?
    Literary Hub, 6 July 2026
  • To a leader who was trained to leave personal struggles at the door, that openness can sound like fragility.
    Mark Murphy, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • Now, at this point in history, that may sound like empty rhetoric, the American idea.
    David Frum, The Atlantic, 1 July 2026
  • That might sound like a simple question — after all, if a shark is landed, surely someone can identify it?
    Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • Asteroid mining may sound like a long shot, but so did reusable rockets not long ago — and in both cases, the engineering was never really the question.
    Charlotte Kiang, Forbes.com, 9 July 2026
  • Workforce strategy can sound like a staffing plan when the more important issue is whether skills, workflows and decision rights are keeping pace with the operating model.
    Brittany Caskey, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • Welles and co designed the adaptation to sound like a news bulletin — complete with weather reports and 'expert' analysis — as the aliens made their move on New York.
    Richard Edwards, Space.com, 4 July 2026
  • The scene between him and TC (Sarah Swire) presents viewers with a peculiar question—what should music written and produced by a vampire sound like?
    Sabrina Reed, Forbes.com, 6 July 2026
  • This might sound like a good arrangement, especially considering how big an investment a home is and how much of a family’s budget monthly mortgage payments can comprise.
    Becca Stanek, TheWeek, 6 July 2026
  • That may sound like an exaggeration, but higher education will almost certainly have to become more remedial.
    Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
  • The ongoing diversification of the American populace ensures that Latin American rhythms, jazz subgenres and electronic innovations will continue to redefine what the nation will sound like moving forward.
    Ted Olson, The Conversation, 2 July 2026

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