1.   As the Lakers begin their quest for a third consecutive championship, nothing could sound sweeter than that.

2.   After a treatment, golf balls sail farther, race-car engines drive longer and brass instruments sound a little sweeter.

3.   Would an accountant, by any other name, sound sweeter?

4.   During the allegretto, the slow second movement of the Seventh Symphony, the double basses sounded sweeter than chamber music, almost like purring cats.