Examples of plosive in a Sentence
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The report, with the alliterative plosives of its title raining down like flecks of spit, was an opening volley in the fight to rouse sleepy bureaucrats and put them on notice.
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Charlie Tyson, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2025
To prevent pops and plosives, beyerdynamic built a pop filter into the M 70 PRO X with a foam layer to protect the capsule.
—Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
This is because the G sound is plosive, a consonant that is spoken by stopping the airflow in your mouth.
—Matt Simon, Wired, 27 May 2020
The plosives and fricatives of a complex word, the specific place your lips meet or don't to shape and push out a puff of air that carries a sound.
—Julie Muncy, Wired, 5 Feb. 2020
There’s something about the sound of it that is sonically shocking — the juxtaposition of two harsh plosives in a string of so few letters.
—Jessica Bennett, New York Times, 2 June 2018
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Charlie Tyson, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2025
To prevent pops and plosives, beyerdynamic built a pop filter into the M 70 PRO X with a foam layer to protect the capsule.
—Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
This is because the G sound is plosive, a consonant that is spoken by stopping the airflow in your mouth.
—Matt Simon, Wired, 27 May 2020
The plosives and fricatives of a complex word, the specific place your lips meet or don't to shape and push out a puff of air that carries a sound.
—Julie Muncy, Wired, 5 Feb. 2020
There’s something about the sound of it that is sonically shocking — the juxtaposition of two harsh plosives in a string of so few letters.
—Jessica Bennett, New York Times, 2 June 2018
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“Plosive.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plosive. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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