How to Use aural in a Sentence

aural

adjective

• For me, the cues are aural (the ping, the French horn) and visual (pop-ups on the screen).
  — Jerome Groopman, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2019
• But the aural troubles didn't stop the crowd from dancing in the bleachers and the stands.
  — Bill Schulz, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 July 2017
• Maybe on the page, but the aural results were clear and compelling.
  — Christian Hertzogwriter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2019
• The best way to get around an aural assault is to dine on the early side.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2022
• Pull that phrase out of my aural canal like an ear candler on the side of the road in India.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 7 Dec. 2021
• Tran went easy on the aural effects—less sound bath than sound spritz.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2019
• The scene expands out like a song, about to spill into an aural ocean.
  — Sarah Neilson, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2020
• Along with the very smooth and thick concrete walls, this creates an aural treat.
  — Trevor Cox, National Geographic, 31 July 2019
• The thrum of daily life gets a little much when the noise in your head is just aural clutter.
  — Catharine Hamm, latimes.com, 13 June 2019
• This record is an aural spell cast over the listener from the first sprite-like sounds to the last haunting note.
  — Spin Staff, SPIN, 2 May 2023
• The aural assault of jackhammers and cement trucks fades at the walls of the complex.
  — Fortune, 6 June 2018
• The hot water sloshes down my ear canal like an aural Neti Pot.
  — James Lynch, Popular Mechanics, 19 Oct. 2018
• What results -- on record and in concert — is an aural treat of rare depth and daring.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2023
• This is Tokyo Record Bar, a creative homage to a type of bar, common in Japan, where the aural is as important as the oral.
  — Robert Simonson, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2017
• Your seat for this aural bliss is a comfy perch with softer padding than the BMW norm.
  — Joe Lorio, Car and Driver, 28 Mar. 2023
• But the vast majority of jokes from the show are not visual but aural.
  — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 6 May 2018
• On its own, the orchestra in this hall can become an aural drug.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2019
• The distinctive trilling of bush warblers and the drone of cicadas are deployed in films as aural markers of place and time.
  — Matt Alt, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2023
• The chief attraction is that its five string players are joined by two French horns for a welcome aural change of pace.
  — Rob Hubbard, Star Tribune, 10 May 2021
• That sounds like an aural metaphor for the tumultuous Sixties.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2017
• And that’s just a slice of her designs’ vast visual and aural foundation.
  — Samuel Hine, GQ, 20 Mar. 2018
• But Future’s flow on the track is an aural masterpiece.
  — Cady Lang, Time, 1 May 2020
• That scene was also a bear for the film’s sound team, which had a wide variety of aural tasks to tackle throughout.
  — Partner Content, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Dec. 2022
• Hearing the sound feels like the aural equivalent of driving over a pothole.
  — Carolina Abbott Galvão, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2023
• The sparseness and quietude of the scene — both in the writing and the aural qualities — alludes to the fact that some things don’t need to be said but felt in a gaze or a pregnant pause.
  — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2021
• But his aural footprint on pop wasn’t limited to that singer and that 1977 album.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 20 Apr. 2021
• Still others flee at parades, spooked by the aural nightmare of musket fire and sirens and marching bands.
  — Billy Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2018
• The film was shot in an indoor gun range, where the sounds of gunfire cannot be heard from the outside—a metaphor for violence done in a kind of aural darkness.
  — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 2 Aug. 2024
• Charlie Watts playing the drums is the sound of happiness, the aural equivalent of Snoopy doing his dance of joy.
  — Mike Edison, Vulture, 25 Aug. 2021
• So Battaglia understood there should be something hypnotic or trance-like about the aural world around the protagonist.
  — Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 14 July 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024