How to Use background noise in a Sentence

background noise

noun

• The mics to my ears don't sound significantly better than those on the iPhone 16, except when there's a lot of background noise.
  — Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 18 Sep. 2024
• And, unlike poring through Cliff's Notes, the pithy, podcast-style format would actually make for enjoyable background noise while out on a walk or running errands.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 23 Sep. 2024
• This one can block out background noise and provide a sense of calm.
  — Sunset Staff, Sunset Magazine, 10 Oct. 2023
• This is his world view—that meaning comes from the voice, its pauses, the background noise.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
• Your boss is a yeller, but by now his barking is just background noise.
  — Jessica Dulong, CNN, 23 Feb. 2024
• The cicadas of a Beijing summer day drowned out the background noise.
  — Ian Johnson, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
• Voices sound clear and the mics reject background noise quite well.
  — PCMAG, 20 May 2024
• The buzz and chatter of background noise on the streets became brighter, louder, and clearer.
  — Charlotte Hu, Popular Science, 7 Sep. 2023
• Strong white papers are not just background noise and a page filler on your website.
  — April Rudin, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• All the background noise that gets in the way of your convo is blocked out, leaving just your voice to come through crystal clear.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2023
• In the first half of the recording, the background noise is interrupted by two blips of silence.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 July 2023
• In a test call, my voice sounded clear and the mic did a fine job of mitigating background noise.
  — PCMAG, 6 Apr. 2024
• Small clips of his craziness can be too easily dismissed as the background noise of our times.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2024
• The mics paired with this setup captured my voice well enough but do little to cancel out background noise.
  — PCMAG, 27 Sep. 2024
• Early recordings of Morbid have so much of my background noise.
  — Julian Sancton, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Aug. 2024
• The call quality is very good; the Z Flip 6 rejected background noise very well and kept my voice clear during calls.
  — PCMAG, 19 July 2024
• Those headphones sound good for the price and the noise canceling feature does a great job of reducing background noise.
  — Larry Magid, The Mercury News, 6 June 2024
• This is a perfect background noise comedy for after the bar.
  — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 4 June 2024
• Fraud has become the de facto background noise of our existence.
  — Orlando Sentinel and New York Daily News Editorial Boards, Orlando Sentinel, 13 July 2024
• The background noise is loud, but Hernandez can be heard pleading with his advocates to make sure the contents of the letter are made public.
  — Margaret Brennan, CBS News, 4 Dec. 2023
• And AirPods will get smarter about adjusting to background noise based on your listening over time.
  — Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic, 20 June 2023
• Or, better yet, one that keeps you off your phone before bed and drowns out background noise more effectively than that dusty box fan in the corner?
  — Kayla Blanton, Health, 19 July 2023
• But all that was background noise compared to things like Brynn Whitfield breaking the escalator with her Louboutins.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2023
• This is a superb test track for testing a stereo soundstage, frequency range and any background noise from headphones.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
• The upstairs loft has plenty of space for catching some Z’s, but with the inevitability of snoring as likely background noise.
  — David Gladish, Outside Online, 31 Jan. 2023
• Number 1 is the crowd microphone, for background noise, ambience and such.
  — Ronald D. White, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
• Call quality is good; the phone does a fine job of minimizing background noise including wind and rain.
  — PCMAG, 30 May 2024
• Compared to the popular Apple Max headphones, the Sonos Ace felt grippier on our ears and sealed out more background noise, in our testing.
  — Tim Chan, Variety, 7 Aug. 2024
• This sparks the job of discerning the background noise from important but small gravity signals.
  — Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Discover Magazine, 21 Mar. 2023
• The vibrations pair with the background noise or white noise of tire roar, engine sounds, and wind noise to create the perfect circumstances to lull most folks into a peaceful slumber.
  — Logan Carter / Jalopnik, Quartz, 2 May 2024

Last Updated: 1 Dec 2024