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Example sentences for "sounds like"

  • Sounds like something in a dream--a nightmare.

  • This feller Bard looks like a tenderfoot; he sounds like a tenderfoot; but he ain't a tenderfoot.

  • It sounds like a nice fairy-story, all right, but I know old fellers who'll swear it's true.

  • First off, it sounds like a fool way of tacklin' them; but when you think twice it was the best of all.

  • Sounds like Devlin," said the superstitious Nickie.

  • Sounds like it's fool-proof, kids," he said.

  • It sounds like a particularly confusing game; but it was a game played in dead earnest, and without the humorous touch which makes the charm of Lady Cook's, or of Sheridan's methods.

  • It sounds like a syllogism," Smoke said, with a sinking heart reviewing Labiskwee's actions of the past several days.

  • Now, Shorty, you go outside and tell me what it sounds like.

  • Sounds like Beeby, and again it might be Teddy.

  • Sounds like a storm," mused the young millionaire.

  • I know it sounds like a big thing to you, for I know what a strong team Haskell has.

  • Sounds like it's something he does to you by touching your mind, maybe sort of a side effect.

  • It sounds like fantasy, but if you think there's any chance at all, I'm willing to try.

  • It sounds like you're anxious to get this siege started.

  • It sounds like z before ion, if a vowel goes before it, as intrusion; and like s, if it follows a consonant, as conversion.

  • Ch, in some French words not yet assimilated, sounds like sh, as machine, chaise.

  • Ea sounds like e long, as mean; or like ee, as dear, clear, near.

  • Sounds like a romance or a bit of fiction," observed Diamond.

  • To me it sounds like a cross between a clarinet, a flute, and a piccolo," he smiled.

  • The story of the crucifixion of Christ can be told so that it sounds like fiction; why not call it fiction?

  • One of our later writers tells the story of Jonah, and says it sounds like fiction; why not call it fiction?

  • Another tells the story of the exodus from Egypt, and says it sounds like fiction; why not call it fiction?

  • It sounds like a fairy tale," she murmured, with a half pathetic smile.

  • It sounds like an empty phrase to say it, but if you will give me your life to take care of, I shall only have one thought--to make you happy.

  • Sounds like a car or truck back there in the swamp," Salt commented.

  • Sounds like a good idea to me," approved Salt.

  • Sounds like an argument goin' on," observed the widow.

  • It sounds like a big assumption," Boyd said.

  • Sounds like a case for the Post Office," Malone said brightly.

  • And that," Malone said, "sounds like an insult.

  • Sounds like we were awash in mutual admiration," Stone said.

  • Sounds like they've got a situation," Stone declared.

  • It sounds like you've got quite a story to tell.

  • Yeah, Ally, if you ask me, it sounds like it was a lucky break in more than one way.

  • It sounds like a plagiarism, but it probably wasn't.

  • I said, "Oh Livy, if it sounds like that I will never do it again!

  • It sounds like ship-money come again, but it may not be so intended.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sounds like" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being held; binding force; books printed; burned alive; early crop; edition volume; find words; flint glass; flying column; its head; knocked down; main army; mile front; other branches; public libraries; say anything more about; scant rainfall; simply couldn; sounds like; this house; vocational guidance; wife went