When the sound of this cloud reached them, it was like nothing they had ever heard in their lives.

NPR: E.L. Doctorow on Sherman and 'The March'

This may sound like the stuff of cloud-cuckoo land, and none of it has been tested yet.

ECONOMIST: Aerobiology

People who have observed a funnel cloud passing overhead have described the sound as similar to buzzing bees or a rushing waterfall-like sound.

BBC: Funnel clouds, twisters, tornados: What are they?

They make the vuvuzela sound like Louis Armstrong playing Gabriel's trumpet on a cloud in heaven.

CNN: How I learned to love the vuvuzela

With a great sucking sound audible in Redmond as the Windows desktop disappears into the cloud, Microsoft has no choice but to damn the expense and forge ahead.

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Then, carried on a gust of wind, the sound became for moments a rhythmic tromp that relieved them as the human reason for the great cloud of dust.

NPR: E.L. Doctorow on Sherman and 'The March'