It was a low,dull,quick sound -- much a sound as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton.

VOA: special.2009.02.02

Neither "As I Lay Dying" nor "The Sound and the Fury" was a great success.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

Animal Collective has a sound all its own.

VOA: special.2009.12.11

While ElBaradei has said Iran was "on the wrong side of the law" in not disclosing the plant's existence earlier, he used the news conference to sound a note of caution about Iran's intentions.

VOA: standard.2009.10.04

The sound had a rougher and more rebellious edge than the highly produced country music coming out of Nashville,Tennessee.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

For example, read copies of a group's financial records and be careful of groups with names that sound like well-known charities.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

As a boy,Carl said he knew if it was time to go to school by the sound of a train.

VOA: special.2009.11.01

She borrowed sound recordings from a musical project by the singer David Byrne to make one song on her new album.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

The wind came again. Finally,the men heard a new sound C the sound of waves breaking and crashing on the shore.

VOA: special.2010.03.06

Now,there came to my ears a low,dull,quick sound, such as a watch makes when inside a piece of cotton.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

Sony and Philips, another electronics manufacturer, worked together to create a new storage device for digital sound -- the compact disc.

VOA: special.2011.05.11

Nina Simone later told a reporter that she decided just to try to sound like the famous singer Billie Holiday.

VOA: special.2009.10.04

But he later broke away from this neoclassical sound to create a freer and more expressive modernist sound.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

"It makes for this haunted sort of sound. It's a little bit like a wine glass, when you play a wine glass.

VOA: special.2010.07.12