How to Use vocal folds in a Sentence
vocal folds
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There are two major joints that open and close the vocal folds.
—Star Tribune, 21 July 2021
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The other half flutters at the base of the tract: the vocal folds, also known as cords or reeds.
—Ben Guarino, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Jan. 2020
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One called a pitch glide stretches and shortens the vocal folds.
—Star Tribune, 21 July 2021
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The vocal folds are short and thick and create a slow vibration.
—Erica Tobolski, The Conversation, 29 Apr. 2022
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Muscles in the vocal folds provide resistance to air in the lungs.
—Jim Sullivan, Discover Magazine, 23 July 2015
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There's five different types of tissue in the vocal folds.
—Star Tribune, 21 July 2021
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Those vocal folds vibrate to create sounds like singing and speaking.
—Korin Miller, Health.com, 21 June 2021
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Humpback whales seem to produce sound largely with their vocal folds.
—Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2022
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Hoarseness is usually a symptom of problems in the vocal folds of your larynx, aka your voice box.
—Korin Miller, Health.com, 4 Nov. 2021
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Unlike most species that have triangular vocal folds, lions and tigers were found to have flat, square folds that are around one inch thick.
—Emily Toomey, Smithsonian, 19 July 2019
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When it’s not being shifted around via computer program, the pitch of your voice depends on how thick and how tense your vocal folds are.
—Rachel Gutman, The Atlantic, 15 May 2018
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Ventricular folds, or false vocal folds, are located on top of the true vocal cords.
—Zoe Sottile, CNN, 29 Nov. 2022
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The bats made low-frequency sounds through their false vocal folds, a part of the voice box not typically used by humans to speak or sing, Elemans said.
—Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2022
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From the baboon’s larynx and vocal folds, which is high up and close to their chin line, there’s just a short step up through the cavity called the pharynx, then a long way out the horizontal oral cavity.
—Louis-Jean Boë, The Conversation, 11 Dec. 2019
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The length of your vocal tract depends mostly on physiology: Women’s vocal folds tend to be higher up, so their tracts are shorter.
—Rachel Gutman, The Atlantic, 15 May 2018
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Humans vocalize by forcing air over the various structures of the vocal tract, including vocal folds, tongue and lips.
—Patrick Traynor, The Conversation, 20 Sep. 2022
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Researchers now think a pad of elastic tissue on the vocal folds, present only in roarers, explains the different vocalizations.
—Elisa Neckar, Discover Magazine, 8 May 2018
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Three distinct subsystems are involved in vocal production: the larynx, or voice box, which houses the vocal folds; the lungs and diaphragm in breathing; and areas where sounds resonate, or the vocal tract.
—Erica Tobolski, The Conversation, 29 Apr. 2022
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Fish don’t have specialized vocal cords, larynxes or vocal folds.
—Washington Post, 10 May 2022
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Doctors diagnosed her with paresis of the vocal folds, a muscular dysfunction.
—New York Times, 21 Nov. 2019
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In Howard’s apparatus, the loudspeaker acted as both lungs and vocal folds, approximating the pitch produced by a typical adult male’s body.
—Sophie Bushwick, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2020
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