With a dark woman on your arm, it means, for whatever reason, and this sounds horrible, you had to settle.

This is going to sound horrible, but I'm hoping he'll be out of here within the next week or so.

There was no band of looters coming their way, but other things that sound too horrible to be true did happen.

"I'm always conscious of talking to normal people and saying something that might sound horrible."

Listeners sent in words that sound horrible, but are actually nice things.

To me it just sounds horrible or like there's something wrong with your tape.

"This is going to sound horrible," she said with a laugh.

That might sound horrible, but people were having a good time.

At thirty years remove, my story does not sound so horrible.

His beloved is heard, but her tune now sounds horrible.