How to Use aural in a Sentence

aural

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• The scene expands out like a song, about to spill into an aural ocean.
  — Sarah Neilson, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2020
• 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
• Their glitchy images complement the aural static, but the latter seems paramount.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2019
• The dishes, revealed afterward on a menu card, play off the visual and aural cues, often in surprising ways.
  — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2019
• Soluri’s fingers repeatedly could be seen flying over the bassoon keys with no aural evidence of his labors.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 14 Feb. 2020
• So the victims of this aural anomaly are, like Bassett, told repeatedly there’s nothing wrong.
  — Popular Science, 21 Jan. 2020
• As in Lynch’s work, Garland takes time to dwell on visual and aural details that let the viewer know this is no ordinary suspense drama.
  — oregonlive, 25 Feb. 2020
• Those three minutes of pure aural pleasure were such a welcome, unexpected break from unrelenting weeks of anxiety.
  — Adrienne So, Wired, 1 Apr. 2020
• These aural pleasures are so well established that the Aztecs have an onomatopoeic word for the sound of several kernels popping at once: totopoca.
  — S. Whitney Holmes, The New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2019
• But, unlike the training in music theory and aural skills that’s required of every kind of music major, this lesson is something that’s specific to Kennedy’s students.
  — Elizabeth Nonemaker, baltimoresun.com, 17 Sep. 2019
• Like the Village Vanguard and other revered New York jazz clubs, the place was all about the immediacy of aural experience.
  — Philip Booth, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 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
• 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
• What results -- on record and in concert — is an aural treat of rare depth and daring.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Spotify was down for two hours on March 8, and over 2.9 million people were jonesing for their aural fix.
  — Chandra Steele, PCMAG, 21 Dec. 2022
• The chord changes leave the listener in suspense and yearning, the aural equivalent of Lorde hanging out of her car in the song’s music video.
  — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 23 Aug. 2021
• But this is more than aural mise-en-scene; the music propels the plot and also foreshadows the journeys of both troubled teens.
  — Rosie Knight, refinery29.com, 11 Aug. 2021
• Glazer says The Zone of Interest is formed of two films layered over each other, an aural and a visual one.
  — Armani Syed, TIME, 12 Jan. 2024
• Try one of these five projects to help scientists understand our aural landscape.
  — Bob Hirshon, Discover Magazine, 19 Apr. 2024
• Since 2010’s The Social Network, the duo has been expanding the possibilities of film’s aural landscape.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 12 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Aug 2024