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Example sentences for "sounder"

Lexicographically close words:
soun; sound; soundboard; sounde; sounded; soundest; soundeth; sounding; soundings; soundless
  1. Oh, the better Sir: for he that drinkes all night, and is hanged betimes in the morning, may sleepe the sounder all the next day.

  2. Shallow agen: a more sounder instance, come Cor.

  3. In Germany, where Junker and Court are most influential and brutal, there is a larger and sounder and broader tradition of practical efficiency, a modernised legal profession, and a more widely diffused scientific imagination.

  4. But if there is any one principle sounder than another of all those that guide the amateur in prophecy, it is that history never repeats itself.

  5. And how far does it mean a reconstruction of human society, within a few score of years, upon sounder and happier lines?

  6. It is the crowning achievement of Christian Mysticism before the Reformation, except in the English Platonists of the seventeenth century, we shall not find anywhere a sounder and more complete scheme of doctrine built upon this foundation.

  7. Remembering this, I substituted a piece of chalk, rotated by a small electric motor for the magnet, and connecting a sounder to a metallic finger resting on the chalk, the combination claim of Page was made worthless.

  8. Thus the carbon will offer considerable resistance and the signal on the local sounder will be weak.

  9. Indeed, the confidence we ought to have in the justice of others still countenances the hope that a sounder view of those rights will of itself induce from every belligerent a more correct observance of them.

  10. To enter jungle-grass is always an unwise proceeding, but I went, partly because I knew nothing of pig-hunting, and partly because the villagers said that the big boar of the sounder owned foot long tushes.

  11. These things happened when the jungle-grass was tall; and the villagers of Chachuran told me that a sounder of pig had gone into the Arti-goth patch.

  12. The idea of a world state, though it looks a far greater and more difficult project, is, in the long run, a sounder and more hopeful proposition.

  13. And I suppose the people of the United States would set themselves very earnestly to see that sounder sense was talked and taught to the people of Kentucky about these things.

  14. Far more eagerly would they have taken a finer, sounder and more authoritative work.

  15. Why under heaven should I press it upon her--merely to gain the academic satisfaction of convincing her that the Post acted on information superior and judgment sounder than her own?

  16. But I daresay no one ever had a sounder pair of eyes than I.

  17. The framers of our excellent Constitution and the people who approved it with calm and sagacious deliberation acted at the time on a sounder principle.

  18. They would be conducted with more caution and on sounder principles.

  19. Thus, under the sounder moral and economic conditions of the life of the proletariate in Germany, straightforward rationalism, as apart from propaganda, is becoming among them more and more the rule.

  20. The Glaubenslehre, in which he made good his maxim that "the true criticism of dogma is its history," is a sounder performance.

  21. A book which wants only a sounder religious feeling to be as delightful as it is original" had been Southey's pompous criticism, in a paper on Infidelity.

  22. Therefore for several years I have been saying to myself that it would be easier to strengthen the country and place it on a sounder basis if it were possible for us to return to our monarchical state.

  23. And the sleepers in the still darkened houses were, with scarcely an exception, the descendants of the sounder sleepers in the graveyard on the furthest, highest hilltop.

  24. She had read it aloud to Miss Sophia (who tried her best to keep awake), and she was confidently relying upon her judgment, which she considered so much sounder and more practical than her own, in making the decision.

  25. It was an infinitely saner, sounder Brenton who faced his classes on the first morning of the new semester, than any one, watching him throughout the previous year, would have ever dared to hope.

  26. And lay Lady Marg'ret close at my back, And the sounder I will sleep.

  27. Ye'll pu the bloom frae off the broom, Strew't at his head and feet, And aye the thicker that ye do strew, The sounder he will sleep.

  28. Jackson, with a wider grasp of war, held that concentration at Winchester was a sounder measure of security.

  29. To make victory complete it is the sounder policy to carry the war into hostile territory.

  30. And each time the current in the circuit is increased, the disk in the receiver is pulled down, just as the sounder of a telegraph is pulled down.

  31. Also press the sounder of each instrument down and see if it springs back readily.

  32. A telephone is much like a delicate and complicated telegraph in which the vibrations started by your voice press the "key," and in which the sounder can vibrate swiftly in response to the electric currents passing through the wire.

  33. Boulter and Fiske paid to Soames a good deal of attention, by instinct or the sounder evidence of rumour, feeling him to be a man of property.

  34. No sounder principle on which a man can base his life, whose father-in-law has a very considerable income, and a partiality for his grandchildren.

  35. His words halted, as though he were apologizing for having at last deviated from the path of virtue, and succumbed, in defiance of sounder principles, to his more natural instincts.

  36. I lay on a bench, with my head on my small bag, and never had a sounder sleep.

  37. The professional dealer, however smart he may be, takes a sounder estimate of any individual transaction than the amateur.

  38. They believed self-help to be a sounder principle, both morally and politically, and they believed it to be sufficient.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sounder" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.