Usage examples (37)

• The sun was rising higher; the man on the bow was calling his soundings and the world glided past us.
• Our soundings was a little irregular, from 12 to 4 fathoms, which caused me to send a Boat ahead to sound.
• The GPS readings, called soundings, will form a vertical profile of the atmosphere from 500 meters to 60 kilometers.
• In pursuing his theme, Fr. Nichols takes various "soundings," or samplings, of what he calls in his subtitle "sacral aesthetics."