The story may sound familiar, because it's not the first time we've covered this possibility.

I think my story will sound more convincing than yours.

At thirty years remove, my story does not sound so horrible.

The story may sound familiar, but the venue was not Washington.

The story sounds a little too good to be true.

"i can see that now but at the time the story sounded good."

The story would sound rather different, if I had written it.

Nobody can know whether this is how the story sounded more than a thousand years ago.

His first story was more credible, but now both stories sound like fiction.

These stories sounded familiar to me from another time and place.