"I know it, but the man sounded awake and sober."

Nick, you're sounding very sober at the moment.

He looked and sounded surprisingly sober; and she felt flattered.

I had a sense of her trying to be coherent, the way a drunk pulled over by a traffic cop will try to sound sober.

The bird paused again, a long pause, and when she spoke her voice sounded more sober than Nita could remember ever hearing it.

Next to his two comrades, he sounded positively sober.

His voice was gravelly but he sounded sober.

He sounded suddenly very sober, and not at all happy about it.

Robin was surprised to hear Cirocco speak, in a voice that sounded almost sober.

Curt Anderson, the site's designer, sounded sober on the phone, but he has certainly crafted some sloppy questions.