I don't mean to sound excited, but this is my very first war.

She was not a woman to sound excited, but he picked up a thread of something like it in her voice.

"That's right," he said, but his voice sounded a little less excited now.

She did not sound excited, but about to burst into tears.

She'd sounded excited, and he'd told her to meet him at the usual place.

She didn't sound excited at all, and she was bringing me down with her.

But then he sounded far more excited about how the move will change his burgeoning career.

True to her even disposition, she did not sound excited.

Tim sounded more excited than I ever heard him sound before.

I tried to sound a little excited, but my voice came out flat and uncertain.