How to Use sonic boom in a Sentence

sonic boom

noun

• Jet2 said the jets caused a sonic boom that was heard for miles.
  — Time Staff, Time, 19 July 2019
• The mystery of the sonic boom that blitzed San Diego 10 days ago has been cleared up.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2021
• The Air Force did its best to explain what sonic booms were.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 6 June 2023
• The plan is to use flights like this to show the public what low sonic booms sound like and get feedback.
  — CBS News, 16 Oct. 2017
• Hard to say) and got low enough in the atmosphere to have the sonic boom carried by air.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 18 Oct. 2012
• Those sonic booms have become part of the sound of summer.
  — Ivan Watson, CNN, 5 Aug. 2024
• But by the end of the decade, most people viewed sonic booms as a public nuisance.
  — J. George Gorant, Robb Report, 8 May 2024
• Its jets also made huge sonic booms that were heard in Beirut.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 19 Sep. 2024
• The eruption set off a sonic boom that could be heard as far away as Alaska.
  — Nick Perry, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Jan. 2022
• It’s time again for glittering lights and sonic booms to fill the sky in the name of democracy.
  — Trevor Fraser, orlandosentinel.com, 26 June 2019
• Here's a timeline of the plane's path, and the military response that led to a sonic booms over the D.C. region and along the East Coast.
  — Luis Martinez, ABC News, 6 June 2023
• The sonic boom was caused when the F-16s his supersonic speeds.
  — Tracey Harrington McCoy, Peoplemag, 5 June 2023
• As the shock wave passes over an observer on the ground, the change in air pressure produces the sonic boom.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 23 Jan. 2017
• But engineers are hard at work on ways to quiet the sonic boom.
  — Kate Baggaley /, NBC News, 31 Jan. 2018
• On October 15, a sonic boom announced to the world that Green (backed by Noble) was now the fastest man on earth.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 24 Nov. 2018
• The fighter jet caused a loud sonic boom that was heard across the capital region.
  — Michael Balsamo and Ashley Thomas, Anchorage Daily News, 5 June 2023
• And no—there won't be a sonic boom if the hyperloop reaches this speed, since that won't be the speed of sound at the low pressure inside of the tube.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 10 Apr. 2018
• With a remit to test the frontiers of flight well beyond the sonic boom, the X-15 series delivered in spades.
  — Julie Boatman, Robb Report, 10 July 2024
• The sonic boom, which was heard as far away as Portland, came moments later.
  — Kale Williams, OregonLive.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• The sonic booms from landings sometimes set off the burglar alarms that hung from our door handles.
  — Sarah Scoles, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2017
• In the garage a sonic boom, courtesy of a military jet high above the desert, cracks like an overhead cannon shot.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 14 Oct. 2015
• The changes were as evident as the meteor and sonic boom that rattled the frigid city of Detroit this week.
  — Keith Naughton, Bloomberg.com, 18 Jan. 2018
• The sonic boom was dangerous to nearby personnel even before the plane took to the skies.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 13 Aug. 2020
• Noise and complaints from homeowners limit where the planes can fly, owing to the sonic boom produced to fly faster than the speed of sound.
  — NBC News, 3 June 2021
• As those objects travel through the air, molecules are pushed aside with great force and this forms a shock wave, heard as a sonic boom.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 4 Jan. 2022
• Here’s more on why supersonic flight creates sonic booms, and how the X-59 could change that.
  — Rob Verger, Popular Science, 15 June 2023
• The aircraft uses new technologies to fly faster than Mach 1 while reducing the noise of the loud sonic boom.
  — Sascha Brodsky, Popular Mechanics, 13 July 2023
• The sonic boom created by flying above the speed of sound restricts these aircraft in many places from flight over land.
  — Julie Boatman, Robb Report, 10 July 2024
• In order to catch up with the plane, the jets were authorized to fly at supersonic speeds, and the sonic boom came from the two F-16 jets out of Andrews.
  — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 5 June 2023
• As the Super Heavy booster returned, a sonic boom was heard across the region — a thunder-like noise when a vehicle travels faster than the speed of sound.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024