How to Use sound wave in a Sentence

sound wave

noun

• That channels the sound waves up through the tubes to the ears.
  — courant.com, 23 Oct. 2019
• The sound waves hit these five-foot-deep cones and get trapped.
  — Charlotte Hu, Popular Science, 7 Sep. 2023
• This sound wave pushed the fog out of the air to form a fog-free channel.
  — Sophia Chen, Wired, 29 Apr. 2020
• The tech sends a beam of sound waves out into the water and looks for an echo back.
  — WIRED, 20 June 2023
• The workers then use the tools to cut tiny holes in special glass with sound waves.
  — Erin Mansfield and Katie Wedell, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2020
• In flight, the swirling tail sends out sound waves that conflict with those of the flapping wings.
  — Amy Raudenbush, Philly.com, 15 June 2018
• Sonar uses sound wave echoes to find objects or map features of the ocean.
  — Brad Lendon, CNN, 22 June 2023
• Those stations sent sound waves toward the boundary of the core and mantle.
  — Lee Roop | [e-mail], al, 11 Apr. 2023
• The ink was a cocktail of chemicals that respond to sound waves.
  — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 8 Dec. 2023
• And it was greeted with a sound wave of validation from fans around the metro.
  — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 16 May 2021
• This energy travels like sound waves through the structures of the Earth.
  — The Conversation, oregonlive.com, 8 July 2019
• Each tap on the base sends a sound wave up to the liquid’s surface, which then bounces downward and reflects off the base again.
  — Helen Czerski, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2023
• The thin wall acts as a waveguide for the sound wave and slows its speed compared to an unconfined sound wave.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 2 Mar. 2022
• During this process, sound waves and light waves are coupled, even though light waves are much faster.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 20 Aug. 2019
• Consider a sound wave on the top plate moving toward the hole.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 6 Dec. 2018
• The researchers were looking for the coupling between electrons and a type of sound wave, called a phonon.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 6 Sep. 2019
• Segran has a sound machine that bounces sound waves off the walls, providing just the right amount of white noise for the size of the bedroom.
  — CBS News, 5 Oct. 2019
• The researchers dubbed the sounds tornillos, the Spanish word for screws, because on the monitors, the sound waves looked like screw threads.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 18 June 2018
• When a sound wave passes over an opening in such a space, the wave squeezes and releases the air inside.
  — Rachel Berkowitz, Scientific American, 14 Dec. 2023
• The sound wave left its imprint on the CMB and, faintly, in the distribution of the galaxies.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 20 Nov. 2020
• All month long, the HSO plants itself outdoors, enlists some hi-watt stars and beams sound waves into the night air.
  — Michael Hamad, courant.com, 28 June 2018
• Then the sound waves lengthen out again and become lower in pitch as the vehicle moves away.
  — Richard Conniff, Scientific American, 17 June 2019
• Bone isn’t permeable to sound waves, so Forest plans to embed its device in the skull.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 23 Dec. 2023
• The audiogram is a graph of the sound waves a person can hear at varying frequencies.
  — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 June 2018
• She has been seen using her own heartbeat to the sound from her violin to produce sound waves.
  — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 25 Feb. 2019
• Of course, there is one big catch—the distance between these two crystals can’t be larger than the wavelength of the sound wave itself.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 23 Aug. 2023
• Inside the cells, the bubbles boost the number of sound waves that bounce back to the ultrasound device, making the host cells detectable.
  — Mitch Leslie, Science | AAAS, 26 Sep. 2019
• By changing the frequency and volume of the sound waves, the researchers are able to alter the robots' movements and vary their speed.
  — NBC News, 29 July 2019
• The fast collapse generates pressure waves that leave the fluid as sound waves.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 5 Apr. 2018
• Such treatments include using sound waves to break the stones or surgery through a small incision in the lower back.
  — Tara Subramaniam, CNN, 15 June 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024