sound out in English

ask someone's opinion on an issue; pronounce an unfamiliar word by slowly uttering the sounds of each letter and assembling them into a word (for children who are learning to read)

Use "sound out" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "sound out" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "sound out", or refer to the context using the word "sound out" in the English Dictionary.

1. I might hear a sound out of the Blankness

2. Roman orthography uses the English alphabet to sound out the words in Inuktitut.

3. Washington Prime Group Inc., the owner of a nationwide group of shopping malls reeling from the pandemic, Approached investors to sound out …

4. Dr. Henry Halford was detailed to sound out Charlotte about the match; he found her reluctant, feeling that a future British queen should not marry a foreigner.

5. 12 And Jonʹa·than said to David: “Let Jehovah the God of Israel be a witness that I will sound out my father about this time tomorrow or by the third day.