Watch my drink, okay? He lightly patted Mark's back and tried to sound soothing.

He meant to sound soothing, but he found he was staring uneasily at those flames.

I tried to sound soothing.

Heathrow managed to sound soothing and firm and commanding all at the same time, though he wasn't quite certain how he'd pulled it off.

I think to a New Yorker it might almost have sounded soothing.

Her voice was rich with occasional low tones that sounded soothing to Thomas.

A pluck here, a glissando there, and it sounds soothing.

Bryne's tone did not alter a whit that she could tell, but somehow, he sounded soothing.

His voice sounded soothing.

She was speaking in a voice that sounded soothing and far away, so that he could not make out the words.

His voice sounded soothing, even hypnotic, but the prisoner crouching against a back wall scooched her bare feet underneath her skirts.

"It isn't coming here," I told him, trying to sound certain, trying to sound soothing.

The phrase itself sounds soothing, like a day in the Tuscan sun or an advert for a mattress guaranteed to provide deep slumber.

"Neither do I." I tried to sound soothing.

"What did you want to say?" She did a better job sounding soothing than I would have.

"Lane." I tried to sound soothing.