How to Use sound wave in a Sentence

sound wave

noun
Definition of sound wavenext
  • That channels the sound waves up through the tubes to the ears.
    — courant.com, 23 Oct. 2019
  • The sounds waves are recorded and used to map the Earth's crust.
    — Drew Broach, NOLA.com, 13 Jan. 2018
  • The sound waves hit these five-foot-deep cones and get trapped.
    — Charlotte Hu, Popular Science, 7 Sep. 2023
  • This sound wave pushed the fog out of the air to form a fog-free channel.
    — Sophia Chen, Wired, 29 Apr. 2020
  • In a sound wave, that’s related to the volume of the sound.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 5 July 2024
  • The tech sends a beam of sound waves out into the water and looks for an echo back.
    — WIRED, 20 June 2023
  • The workers then use the tools to cut tiny holes in special glass with sound waves.
    — Erin Mansfield and Katie Wedell, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2020
  • In flight, the swirling tail sends out sound waves that conflict with those of the flapping wings.
    — Amy Raudenbush, Philly.com, 15 June 2018
  • Rogers showed the students how a sound wave moved using a slinky.
    — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Cervi pulled up a file that showed the changing volume of the sound waves emitted from the drone.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
  • The first wave to emerge from an earthquake, called the P-wave, is an acoustic, or sound wave.
    — Becky Oskin, Scientific American, 29 Jan. 2013
  • The sound waves that bounce back are used to map the Earth's crust and decipher its contents.
    — Tristan Baurick, NOLA.com, 27 Oct. 2017
  • None of these sound waves seems to explain the concussions.
    — Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2017
  • Sonar uses sound wave echoes to find objects or map features of the ocean.
    — Brad Lendon, CNN, 22 June 2023
  • Those stations sent sound waves toward the boundary of the core and mantle.
    — Lee Roop | [email protected], al, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The ink was a cocktail of chemicals that respond to sound waves.
    — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 8 Dec. 2023
  • And it was greeted with a sound wave of validation from fans around the metro.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 16 May 2021
  • This energy travels like sound waves through the structures of the Earth.
    — The Conversation, oregonlive.com, 8 July 2019
  • Each tap on the base sends a sound wave up to the liquid’s surface, which then bounces downward and reflects off the base again.
    — Helen Czerski, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The thin wall acts as a waveguide for the sound wave and slows its speed compared to an unconfined sound wave.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 2 Mar. 2022
  • During this process, sound waves and light waves are coupled, even though light waves are much faster.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Consider a sound wave on the top plate moving toward the hole.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 6 Dec. 2018
  • The researchers were looking for the coupling between electrons and a type of sound wave, called a phonon.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 6 Sep. 2019
  • Segran has a sound machine that bounces sound waves off the walls, providing just the right amount of white noise for the size of the bedroom.
    — CBS News, 5 Oct. 2019
  • The sensors attached to these balloons recorded the sound waves produced by the SRC’s shock wave.
    — Brian Elbing, Discover Magazine, 11 June 2024
  • The researchers dubbed the sounds tornillos, the Spanish word for screws, because on the monitors, the sound waves looked like screw threads.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 18 June 2018
  • When a sound wave passes over an opening in such a space, the wave squeezes and releases the air inside.
    — Rachel Berkowitz, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2024
  • When a sound wave passes over an opening in such a space, the wave squeezes and releases the air inside.
    — Rachel Berkowitz, Scientific American, 14 Dec. 2023
  • An ultrasound uses sound waves to produce images of structures (such as tissues and organs) inside the body.
    — Laura Schober, Health, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Proving whale calls are meant for other whales is a difficult feat because low-frequency sound waves travel very slowly through cold water, Clark says.
    — Joanna Thompson, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Oct. 2024

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