You get down to brass tacks when you say, "it sounds good, but how much does it cost?"

VOA: special.2010.05.16

One music expert said: "Your Cheatin' Heart" is so sad, it sounds like a judge sentencing somebody to a punishment worse than death itself."

VOA: special.2009.11.22

It sounds like precede but it means prevent.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

Ice climbing is exactly as it sounds.

VOA: special.2009.12.09

"For instance,using the word 'preclude' to mean 'precede.' Yeah,it sounds like 'precede,' but it means 'prevent.' And yet 'preclude' is not a particularly erudite term.

VOA: standard.2010.01.16

It sounds easy, but senior engineer Gwak Byung-man admits there are daunting technical challenges.

VOA: standard.2010.01.04

But Kakutani says it wasn't as simple as it sounds.

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

"There's a buoyancy in prison now, it sounds like an oxymoron, but there's a buoyancy in prison now because a lot of people have a stake in helping our war wounded."

VOA: standard.2010.05.18

"Which doesn't sound that far if you have a car, but it sounds very far if you have to get on a bus, and you have to carry your week's worth of groceries home with you."

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

The driver follows the directions and makes turns based on sounds that the steering wheel makes when it is turned.

VOA: special.2009.11.03

Like many of Regina Spektor's songs, it tells a story filled with unusual details and sounds.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

Because it's another thing that sounds like on the surface is a great idea."

VOA: special.2010.06.17

It mixes the sounds of hard punk and heavy metal rock and roll.

VOA: special.2009.11.06

What he is writing sounds like it was written by a lawyer.

VOA: special.2010.05.10