How to Use sounder in a Sentence
sounder
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But because the depth sounder on the ship couldn’t measure such extreme depths, the crew employed a crude method.
—Eliza Strickland, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Feb. 2012
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Males or boars tend to roam alone though will join a sounder to mate.
—René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 5 Jan. 2021
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As the sounder moves beyond it, the cloud appears closer to the ground.
—Wired, 3 Aug. 2022
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Then an echo-sounder detected a blob of krill that spread for miles below the ship.
—Craig Welch, National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2023
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Sounders defender Joevin Jones got to the ball, beat Powell and took a shot on frame.
—Jamie Goldberg, OregonLive.com, 25 June 2017
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The microwave sounders are now very good at measuring that faint signal.
—Alejandra Borunda, National Geographic, 26 Nov. 2019
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Their kayaks carried echo-sounders and depth measurement equipment.
—Asher Elbein, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2020
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The sounder is one of six instruments aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has been circling its host planet since 2006.
—Wired, 3 Aug. 2022
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Booby traps and tripwire mines worry them the most; one such trap killed a whole sounder of wild boars running in the forest, providing a ghastly reminder of the danger.
—Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Nov. 2022
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Even after the Stars scored five or more goals three times against the Flames, the Avalanche are simply a stronger team – with a more dynamic offense, a sounder defense and better goaltending.
—Jace Evans, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2020
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But unlike Indiana, whose defense has a boom/bust feel to it, the Wildcats take a sounder approach by forcing teams into long drives and sitting back in a zone.
—Stephen Means, cleveland, 19 Dec. 2020
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Choices range from basic sounders to advanced flashers and digital graphing fish finders with GPS.
—Travis Smola, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
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The remote includes six customizable buttons that can be programmed with any of the sounder’s parameters.
—Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 6 May 2021
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Tatum knew better execution and sounder decisions could have lifted his team and made its playoff road easier.
—Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2023
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The super pigs have become adept at fending off recreational hunters, sometimes with entire sounders (the term for a group of pigs, generally led by mature sows) turning nocturnal to avoid the hunting.
—Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 21 Feb. 2023
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The size and scope of the package exceeded the expectations of a number of outside advocates, while answering demands from economists for a major new investment to get the economy on a sounder footing.
—Author: Erica Werner, Jeff Stein, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Jan. 2021
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Other instruments, such as the infrared sounder on Aqua, capture temperature, water vapor, and dozens more variables globally each day.
—Bypaul Voosen, science.org, 21 Nov. 2022
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More recently, observations from the many instruments called microwave sounders attached to different satellites orbiting the planet have become even more valuable to forecasters.
—Alejandra Borunda, National Geographic, 26 Nov. 2019
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MD: The smaller robots have acoustic depth sounders for gathering bathymetry of the vent region, surface water temperature sensors, accelerometers, and cameras.
—Nora Rappaport, National Geographic, 19 Apr. 2017
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Banks are also encouraged to offer financing to support acquisitions of real-estate projects by financially sounder developers from weaker ones.
—Lingling Wei, WSJ, 14 Nov. 2022
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Another option would be to develop artificial intelligence approaches to recover lost or corrupted data from the microwave sounders.
—Andrew Freedman, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2019
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