How to Use standing wave in a Sentence

standing wave

noun

• At the end, everyone stood and gave him a standing wave.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2022
• Light is a wave, and when stuck between two mirrors, the light forms a standing wave.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 9 May 2018
• The movement of the droplets is controlled (to some extent) by the phase between the two sound waves, which changes the standing wave pattern.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 26 July 2019
• This can cause standing waves to form in the airflow, much like a standing wave forms in the lee of a rock in a rapidly flowing stream.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 7 Jan. 2015
• Seiche, its namesake, means a standing wave in a body of water.
  — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2021
• Russian fans in the stands waved their nation’s tricolor flag; the I.O.C.’s ban isn’t extended to them.
  — Tariq Panja, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2018
• This is a temporary change water level caused by a standing wave, which acts a bit like a see saw at either end of the lake.
  — Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2021
• The essential idea is that if the liquid bath is subject to vibration from below (the researchers use the woofer from a speaker), then a standing wave pattern will form on the top.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 26 July 2019
• The lesson plan Caine wrote to meet part of the award criteria calls for students to do an online simulation for standing wave patterns.
  — Donna Vickroy, Daily Southtown, 23 Mar. 2018
• But on the ice, the red uniforms — and hundreds of Russian fans in the stands waving flags and singing traditional songs — leave little question about Russia’s presence in PyeongChang.
  — Sean Gregory/gangneung, Time, 17 Feb. 2018
• The setup created a standing wave between the sphere and transducers, which elevated the object while keeping it in place.
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2016
• Murphy spent six minutes underwater at the standing wave as friends and other surfers flung themselves into the water in an attempt to free him from the underwater panels that make the wave.
  — Michael Krohn, oregonlive, 3 May 2022
• The waves can interact with others in the atmosphere, creating something resembling a standing wave, like a pinged guitar string that seems like it’s vibrating in place.
  — Alejandra Borunda, National Geographic, 29 Sep. 2020
• Traditionally, acoustic levitation involves blasting identical sound waves from two sources—top and bottom—to create a standing wave.
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2016
• The standing wave termination structure now efficiently eliminate standing waves while minimizing the use of acoustic damping material.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2021

Last Updated: 25 Oct 2024