It sounds all peculiar and horrid.

Their laughter sounded horrid to Smith's ears.

Then she said something which they couldn't understand (but it sounded horrid) and made an action as if she were throwing something towards the doors.

It sounds so horrid the last night of the old year.

I know that does not sound horrid, but it is.

If you know anything about dance, this must all sound horrid to you.

It even sounded horrid.

But it sounded horrid, and an echo came out from the kiln that seemed almost like the howl of a wolf.

The first four all sounded horrid; the last didn't sound like anything at all.