During the war he almost sounded like the Czars before him.

Ever, she said, the little cry sounded before her.

They sounded firm about the crucial economic and military problems before them, but what they actually did was very little.

In tone and tempo, it sounded the same as before the attack.

We don't know what his voice sounded like before medicine and illness and old age.

This was complicated by a ground proximity warning not sounding until immediately before the crash.

None of this sounds any major alarms a month before the season opener.

He sounded like a football coach before the big game.

Something that sounded like mocking laughter, before the light completely overwhelmed them.

The air defense sounded the warning 49 minutes before the raid.