How to Use vocal folds in a Sentence

vocal folds

plural noun

• There are two major joints that open and close the vocal folds.
  — Star Tribune, 21 July 2021
• 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
• One called a pitch glide stretches and shortens the vocal folds.
  — Star Tribune, 21 July 2021
• The vocal folds are short and thick and create a slow vibration.
  — Erica Tobolski, The Conversation, 29 Apr. 2022
• Muscles in the vocal folds provide resistance to air in the lungs.
  — Jim Sullivan, Discover Magazine, 23 July 2015
• There's five different types of tissue in the vocal folds.
  — Star Tribune, 21 July 2021
• Those vocal folds vibrate to create sounds like singing and speaking.
  — Korin Miller, Health.com, 21 June 2021
• Humpback whales seem to produce sound largely with their vocal folds.
  — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Ventricular folds, or false vocal folds, are located on top of the true vocal cords.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 29 Nov. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Fish don’t have specialized vocal cords, larynxes or vocal folds.
  — Washington Post, 10 May 2022
• Doctors diagnosed her with paresis of the vocal folds, a muscular dysfunction.
  — New York Times, 21 Nov. 2019
• 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
• Respiratory mucus serves to lubricate the vocal folds, and also filters out particulate debris like pollen, dander and smoke.
  — Jack Feerick, Discover Magazine, 10 Nov. 2020

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024