NOUN
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a person whose reactions to something serve as an indication of its acceptability
I would use newspapermen as a sounding board for such policies - (music) resonator consisting of a thin board whose vibrations reinforce the sound of the instrument
How To Use sounding board In A Sentence
- He needed a sounding board rather than thinking alone.
- Still more curious was the form of viol known as the barytone, which, in addition to an outfit of six catgut strings upon the finger board, was furnished with twenty-four wire strings, stretched close under the sounding board, where they sounded by sympathetic vibration. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present
- They had a special role in relation to stock-rearing and stock health and as the confidante and sounding board for the farmers' problems.
- Perhaps by offering a peripatetic clinic in a unofficial capacity I am allowing people to use me as a sounding board for their health concerns which I can listen to and direct them back to their own GP if appropriate.
- A sounding board was positioned over their heads to amplify their voices. Times, Sunday Times
- To some it is the lowest form of radio, yet the phone-in show, that bizarre combo of confessional, soapbox and sounding board, is the one medium where the public ceases to be a statistic and actually finds its voice.
- He needed a sounding board rather than thinking alone.
- A sounding board was positioned over their heads to amplify their voices. Times, Sunday Times
- He needed a sounding board rather than thinking alone.
- I would use newspapermen as a sounding board for such policies
