How to Use hertz in a Sentence

hertz

noun
  • The main beat was always two hertz, or roughly two events per second.
    — Anna Von Hopffgarten, Scientific American, 26 Mar. 2024
  • But these songs can reach over 1,500 hertz, and are easy for killer whales to hear.
    — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Some brain waves referred to as high-gamma have been clocked up to 100 hertz.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Will that be enough to draw people toward these high-hertz peripherals?
    — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 23 Dec. 2021
  • Someone who is relaxed with eyes closed but not asleep produces alpha waves at around 10 hertz.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 4 June 2024
  • Most people wouldn’t be able to discern such microtonal shifts up or down 8 hertz.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2022
  • These range from about one cycle per second (1 hertz) down to a fraction of a cycle per second.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Frequency is measured in hertz (Hz), or the number of sound waves per second.
    — Ben Finio, Scientific American, 31 May 2018
  • The bass notes are probably around 50 or 60 hertz, the lower notes on a pipe organ.
    — Helen Scales, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2019
  • The male, being smaller, hums in flight at the higher frequency of 600 hertz.
    — Dava Sobel, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2010
  • Furthermore, this stiffness only drops to 21 hertz when the roof panel is removed.
    — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Despite its screen staying locked to 60 hertz, scrolling with the Pixel Tablet is snappy.
    — Hunter Fenollol, Popular Mechanics, 29 June 2023
  • Everything’s got to be on that 60 hertz in the US, 50 hertz in other places.
    — Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 6 Mar. 2024
  • And a high-frequency sound of more than 1,000 hertz is produced by whistling within the larynx.
    — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 24 Feb. 2026
  • On a monitor, hertz (Hz) refers to how many times per second the display refreshes itself.
    — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 9 Jan. 2020
  • One tone is a low baritone, around 200 hertz, which fits with what scientists expect from a large animal.
    — Liz Neporent, ABC News, 23 Feb. 2026
  • All brain waves fall into different categories of electric wave speed, measured in hertz (Hz).
    — Brittany Dube, Health, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Humans and animals hear at different hertz levels.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Hamilton took one for a spin down the ice, and the data was instantaneous — line graphs along with a slew of numbers that showed his force in pounds and his stroke rate in hertz.
    — Scott Cacciola, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2018
  • At that point, the gravitational waves reach a frequency of 10 hertz, or cycles per second, the low end of its range.
    — Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 11 Feb. 2016
  • The heartbeat of the grid — measured in hertz — also fell perilously low, according to the grid operator.
    — Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 8 Sep. 2023
  • At 60 hertz—the mains frequency in many countries—most of the current is in the outer 8 millimeters of copper.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Dec. 2025
  • These black holes spin around one another very slowly and produce gravitational waves with frequencies of one-billionth of a hertz.
    — Chris Impey, The Conversation, 30 June 2023
  • The other is surprisingly high -- often above 1,000 hertz -- about the same pitch as a tea kettle whistle.
    — Liz Neporent, ABC News, 23 Feb. 2026
  • William Jason Raynovich has returned for residencies four times to perfect the instrument, right down to the hertz.
    — Arkansas Online, 15 July 2021
  • That tablet also has a much less powerful Exynos 1380 and a smaller 90-hertz display.
    — Anshel Sag, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Now our hope is that second-wave AIs can learn to predict the spectrum environment with enough precision to not let a single hertz go to waste.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 May 2019
  • The alternating current going through power lines in the US cycles at a frequency of 60 hertz.
    — Umair Irfan, Wired News, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Recent experiments have already narrowed that to 300 kilohertz, and upcoming work could shrink it further to hundreds of hertz.
    — New Atlas, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The settings can be adjusted to tweak a 10-band equalizer with frequencies from 50 hertz to 1,200 hertz.
    — Keenan Thompson, USA Today, 16 Dec. 2025

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