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 sounds waves are recorded and used to map the Earth's crust.
  — Drew Broach, NOLA.com, 13 Jan. 2018
• 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
• In a sound wave, that’s related to the volume of the sound.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 5 July 2024
• 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
• Rogers showed the students how a sound wave moved using a slinky.
  — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 27 Mar. 2018
• Cervi pulled up a file that showed the changing volume of the sound waves emitted from the drone.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
• The first wave to emerge from an earthquake, called the P-wave, is an acoustic, or sound wave.
  — Becky Oskin, Scientific American, 29 Jan. 2013
• The sound waves that bounce back are used to map the Earth's crust and decipher its contents.
  — Tristan Baurick, NOLA.com, 27 Oct. 2017
• None of these sound waves seems to explain the concussions.
  — Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2017
• 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 sensors attached to these balloons recorded the sound waves produced by the SRC’s shock wave.
  — Brian Elbing, Discover Magazine, 11 June 2024
• 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
• When a sound wave passes over an opening in such a space, the wave squeezes and releases the air inside.
  — Rachel Berkowitz, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2024
• An echo is produced when body tissues reflect the sound waves emitted by the transducer.
  — Carrie Madormo, Rn, Mph, Verywell Health, 27 Sep. 2024
• No one trusts anyone, and there’s that thing where Viktor slices Allison’s throat with sound waves and a violin bow, leaving her unable to speak or use her powers for a year.
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024