How to Use bass in a Sentence

bass

1 of 2 noun
  • Wait, does this score have any sick bass lines?
    — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026
  • The sound is rich, with deep bass and bright highs.
    — PC Magazine, 16 Oct. 2025
  • And not just as a bass guitarist.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 24 May 2026
  • And the bass player may start a line.
    — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 26 Jan. 2026
  • And the bass, or the absence of it?
    — Ahmir “questlove” Thompson, VIBE.com, 7 June 2026
  • Powers came up with a groove on the bass.
    — Devin Robertson, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Then a rapid flutter of bass notes.
    — Literary Hub, 9 Mar. 2026
  • This deal is indeed all about the bass!
    — PC Magazine, 13 Oct. 2025
  • His voice cut clean through the booming bass.
    — Bryan West, Nashville Tennessean, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The small-mouth bass go for the leeches, too.
    — Jeremy Rutherford, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2025
  • No, no slappin’ of the bass in this one.
    — Mike Ryan, IndieWire, 26 May 2026
  • All three of us were fighting four-pound bass.
    — Hank Bradshaw, Outdoor Life, 24 June 2026
  • The fish are non-natives such as bass and carp.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The guy plays the one song, thanks the band, and hands me back my bass.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 27 July 2023
  • But bass, it was thought, were designed for small lakes.
    — Hank Bradshaw, Outdoor Life, 24 June 2026
  • The area is known for its large striped bass and rainbow trout.
    — Paige Moore, AZCentral.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • That bass would play off of the horn rhythm that was already set up.
    — Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 14 Apr. 2026
  • And the two things that are new are Paul’s bass and me on drums.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 7 July 2023
  • Jones hooked their second bass of day, which turned out to be their last.
    — Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Aija was all spark and edge on upright bass.
    — Margaret Heidenry, Vanity Fair, 24 Feb. 2026
  • In an odd move, Howe handled the bass parts that night.
    — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The sound is rich in deep bass and acoustic detail.
    — George Yang, PC Magazine, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Right now, my bass is sitting in the corner of my room.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2025
  • Jason, in a blue shirt, was just a guy playing bass.
    — Jason Barnard, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The bass doesn’t muddy up the track either.
    — Mark Knapp, PC Magazine, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The lake is stocked with bass, crappie and catfish.
    — Arkansas Online, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Her vocals drift on the fluttery synth that swells as the bass whirs.
    — Pitchfork, 10 Dec. 2025
  • This should have been the signal for the bass to bounce into the air.
    — Hank Bradshaw, Outdoor Life, 24 June 2026
  • Such is the case with many popular fish like trout, bass, perch.
    — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 25 June 2026
  • Theo can catch, clean, and cook a striped bass to feed our family.
    — Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2025

bass

2 of 2 adjective
  • The track requires a bit of power to keep up with its bass triplets and sub-bass quarter notes, which are ever-present throughout the tune.
    — PCMAG, 8 Oct. 2024
  • The bass triplets don’t have their full impact, and the sub-bass quarter notes only appear as overtones that lack any real heft.
    — Mark Knapp, PC Magazine, 30 Mar. 2026
  • This track relies on sub-bass, too, but instead of kind of mixing into the track, the deep bassline plays through much of the verse and chorus.
    — Christian De Looper, PC Magazine, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Hitting one out of every few notes in the sub-bass results in a sudden bark that, rather than sounding like part of the bassline, feels more like a hiccup.
    — PCMAG, 7 Oct. 2024
  • But the volume and intensity of the songs—with thumping sub-bass and lightning-crack drums—were visceral.
    — Daniel Dylan Wray, Pitchfork, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The track’s intro consists of bass triplets and deeper sub-bass quarter notes that the Air Pro 4+ punch out with ease.
    — Mark Knapp, PC Magazine, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The buds play all of those sub-bass notes quite well, though the deepest are more of a rumble than a clean note, which is typical for the best wireless earbuds.
    — Christian De Looper, PC Magazine, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Everything came across as a bit mid-heavy, and the sub-bass line was almost completely missing except for its highest notes, which sounded out of place as a result.
    — Christian De Looper, PC Magazine, 23 Mar. 2026
  • And as the track reaches its climax, the mid-bass-heavy presentation can get a little muddy, with the drum boom becoming a bit too dominant.
    — Mark Knapp, PC Magazine, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The track leans on sub-bass, and the buds deliver a satisfying amount of low-end while keeping the percussive elements crisp and the lead synths sitting forward in the mix.
    — Christian De Looper, PC Magazine, 30 June 2026
  • The group’s classic instrumentation got a new scaffolding of Jersey club drums, roiling sub-bass and reggaeton thump.
    — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2024
  • The headset didn't reach deep into sub-bass territory, and none of the gunfire or explosions packed thunder, but that seemed like a conscious choice to keep the frequency range clear and balanced.
    — Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 6 Mar. 2026
  • However, the genre—characterized by fast breakbeats with heavy bass and sub-bass lines, samples and synthesizers—fell out of style in North America.
    — Lisa Kocay, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Grand Canyon National Park has seen a resurgence of humpback chubs pre-bass invasion, enough that they were downgraded from endangered to threatened.
    — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 10 Mar. 2023
  • For example, the XBass function can be turned on to reinforce the music’s low-end frequencies, which is useful when using open-back headphones that can sometimes lack sub-bass.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • An innovative fine-tuning mechanism in the rear panel enables users to adjust the mid-high and mid-bass output for optimal integration into any listening space.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • And naturally, with just one small speaker, the PocketGo has almost no ability to touch the notes in the deep sub-bass line introduced about 35 seconds into the track.
    — Mark Knapp, PC Magazine, 30 Mar. 2026
  • But its predecessor, Volume 3 (featuring Smokeface), has more of a hip-hop feel with booming Trap-like sub-bass lines, some active high-hats mixed with synths, sax, flute, and head-nodding, funky, loping grooves.
    — cleveland, 10 Jan. 2023

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