How to Use aural in a Sentence
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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
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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
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Their glitchy images complement the aural static, but the latter seems paramount.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2019
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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
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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
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So the victims of this aural anomaly are, like Bassett, told repeatedly there’s nothing wrong.
—Popular Science, 21 Jan. 2020
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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
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Those three minutes of pure aural pleasure were such a welcome, unexpected break from unrelenting weeks of anxiety.
—Adrienne So, Wired, 1 Apr. 2020
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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
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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
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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
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The best way to get around an aural assault is to dine on the early side.
—Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2022
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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
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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
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What results -- on record and in concert — is an aural treat of rare depth and daring.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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But Future’s flow on the track is an aural masterpiece.
—Cady Lang, Time, 1 May 2020
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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
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Hearing the sound feels like the aural equivalent of driving over a pothole.
—Carolina Abbott Galvão, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2023
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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
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But his aural footprint on pop wasn’t limited to that singer and that 1977 album.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 20 Apr. 2021
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Try one of these five projects to help scientists understand our aural landscape.
—Bob Hirshon, Discover Magazine, 19 Apr. 2024
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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
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