How to Use high frequency in a Sentence

high frequency

noun
  • But the signal was at a high frequency and nothing like it has been produced since.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 1 Oct. 2019
  • The one on the left has a higher frequency than its counterpart.
    — Fidel Martinez, latimes.com, 16 May 2018
  • The process is better at recording midrange sounds and has trouble with high frequencies.
    — Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2018
  • So that sound of that space shuttle, being high frequency, cuts like a knife through anything.
    — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 26 May 2018
  • The high frequency wavelengths used by phones don’t travel well through water.
    — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 20 May 2017
  • In the process, blood samples were diluted and there was a high frequency of error.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 15 Nov. 2022
  • For most of the past decade more trades have been done at high frequency by complex algorithms than by humans.
    — The Economist, 16 Dec. 2020
  • The 6mm drive functions like a tweeter playing the high frequencies.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2024
  • Their relatively high frequency tends to be around the range of human speech.
    — Nick Stockton, WIRED, 5 June 2019
  • Those 22 high frequency routes serve the city’s densest, busiest areas.
    — Jason Laughlin, Philly.com, 11 Sep. 2017
  • Love high frequency machines to clean my skin of bacteria and acne.
    — Elise Tabin, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 Mar. 2023
  • All three were about as effective against the mid and high frequencies, however.
    — PCMAG, 24 July 2024
  • There are low and high frequency oscillations and convoys of spike trains.
    — Lloyd Alter, Treehugger, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Cheating on fastballs and swinging for the fences resulted in a high frequency of home runs for sure.
    — Chris Blessing, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Our model involves sending a team into the home and being there at high frequency.
    — Erin Brodwin, STAT, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Humans cannot hear most of the high frequency sounds that bats emit to locate food while flying in total darkness.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Apr. 2021
  • These are made at a high frequency with a low-to-medium level of complexity.
    — Pascal Bornet, Forbes, 18 July 2022
  • Both teams have played a high frequency of one-goal games of late, and there’s more gray area than usual with a freshman netminder.
    — Ryan R. Bonini, USA TODAY Sportsbook Wire, 15 Dec. 2019
  • Who are your market makers, and what’s your stance on market making and high frequency trading?
    — John Detrixhe, Quartz, 9 Sep. 2020
  • Shark attacks in Long Island have been coming in high frequency.
    — Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 14 July 2022
  • These are made at a medium-to-high frequency with a medium-to-high level of complexity.
    — Pascal Bornet, Forbes, 18 July 2022
  • The sound produced by the clapping, described by researchers as high frequency, sends out a clear signal to other seals in the area.
    — Fox News, 6 Feb. 2020
  • The bell and diaphragm devices have a wide, flat side for high frequencies and a smaller, concave side for low frequencies.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 8 Sep. 2025
  • And so therefore, while there is not a big population, there’s a high frequency of the exchange in order to keep your blood clean.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 15 June 2023
  • The Post account appeared in March and said such events were occurring with high frequency.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 18 June 2018
  • Two mutations that decrease expression of this gene were found in high frequencies in people with the darkest skin.
    — Ann Gibbons, Science | AAAS, 12 Oct. 2017
  • This signal is then mixed with a higher frequency that is transmitted to the network (or received from the network).
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 9 May 2018
  • For instance, a high frequency such as 10 megahertz might make it to a couple of centimeters beneath the skin.
    — Sophie Bushwick, Scientific American, 29 July 2022
  • This layer runs at high frequency and responds instantly to physical changes.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 5 Feb. 2026
  • And the signal becomes up to 20 times stronger than predicted for gamma rays with the highest frequencies.
    — Quanta Magazine, 27 Aug. 2019

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