How to Use background noise in a Sentence

background noise

noun
  • There’s always background noise in India after a defeat of any kind, let alone one of this magnitude.
    Tim Ellis, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
  • The new caller had a thick Eastern European accent and could barely be heard above the background noise.
    Scott Yorko, Outside Online, 8 Oct. 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
  • 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
  • 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

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