To stretch, as a skin over the head of a drum; to make into a drum or drumhead, or cause to act or sound like a drum.
When reversed or shaken, the water being unimpeded by air, strikes the sides in solid mass with a sound like that of a hammer.
It doesn't sound like my Dinky-Dunk, a thing like that," I promptly admonished.
It didn't sound like my Dinky-Dunk of old, for I knew that he was equivocating and making excuses, that he was engineering our ill luck into an apology for worse conduct.
Like a reed, the gigantic trunk bent over the edge, and disappeared with a sound like a shuddering sob.
All at once, as they listened for fresh hisses, a sound like coughing, outside their circle, struck upon their ears.
The tree under which this awful group sat grew on the edge of a precipice, while in front of them the torrent could be seen and heard as it fell into the chasm, with a sound like thunder, from a lofty cliff.
At night, however, while she was waiting to go to bed, she suddenly heard a sound like a rap at the door.
As she began to roll this water went with a sound like "swish" from side to side, and Bevis saw it appear between the edge of the boards and the side.
But none appeared, and suddenly there was another rumbling noise, and directly afterwards a sound like scampering, and then a splash underneath him.
Sound like a bird; but I think it's a little guinea-piggy sort of thing.
As Greg turned and started to run back to the head of his company he thought he heard a sound like a hiss.
I will admit that that doesn't sound like sportsman-like fighting, but unfortunately we're not to be employed against a really civilized enemy in this war.
Broad: has no sound like it in English; nuadh new, naisg bind, lann a blade, carn a heap of stones.
Small: has no sound like it in English; a righ O king, seirbhe satiety, mòir gen.
Broad: has no sound like it in English; ghabh took, ghleidh kept.
While she slept, the moist featherlike flakes hardened to jagged crystals and rattled as they struck the canvas side of the wagon with a sound like gravel.
It struck me that there was something peculiar about the way he got down, and I heard a sound like a horse stumbling.
Then silence for a while; and then a sound like a dray-wheel passing over a packing-case.
Captain Rannie suddenly reversed himself on his chair and changed legs, uttering a sound like a snort.
His head was bowed, his shoulders heaved horribly, and from him came a sound like an asthmatic horse whinnying.
This seemed such a convenient substitute for "never," that he was not surprised to get no answer save a sound like "Tchah!
He put his back against the wall and brought his chest to his knees and tried to sound like he had a belly button as he said to the woman, "Yes, absolutely, I can have this delivered tomorrow if you'd like to courier over a check.
The way she said it, she didn't sound like a young adult, she sounded like a small child.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sound like" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
