Examples of sounding board

• The psychiatrist serves as a sounding board, offers support (not personal opinion), and assists the patient in effective decision-making.

• A basso profundo in conventional terms, his technique involves letting the voice resound in the space, making the walls of the church the sounding board of his vocal instrument.

• A visit by the primary care physician may be helpful, not so much to advise about the infant's problem, but to be a support and sounding board for the parents.

• This is the forum and sounding board where those who can speak with authority on these questions can speak and be heard throughout the country.

• It has no formal terms of reference, but acts as a sounding board on technical tax matters of current interest.

• It will be acceptable to them and will serve as a sounding board for these experiments.

• These discussions have provided an important sounding board for our proposals.

• After all, this place is a great sounding board.

• It acts as a confidential sounding board for proposed policy initiatives and as an avenue for the discussion of representatives' concerns and proposals for change.

• It cannot be the sounding board for one speaker, because it is not.

• It is a great sounding board for public opinion.

• It would be a team that could work together and not a collection of individuals and still less a sounding board for particular interests.

• It is the sounding board of the nation.

• I mean that in the sense not of being oppositionist but of being a sounding board and providing a different view from time to time.

• It is a sounding board, in some ways, as to the opinions of the various nation states.