How to Use hydrophone in a Sentence

hydrophone

noun
  • An onboard hydrophone even allows guests to hear the whales.
    — Latifah Al Hazza, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Faraway hydrophones then picked up the sound and mistook its place of origin.
    — Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Along its length were strung a system of hydrophones and other sensors.
    — David Szondy, New Atlas, 27 Oct. 2024
  • During the summer, the songs picked up by the hydrophone took place mostly at night.
    — Kate Baggaley, Popular Science, 2 Oct. 2020
  • The hydrophone system sways in the current, but is held in position by the pole.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Apr. 2016
  • Meanwhile, the hydrophone array, attached to the rusty train wheels, had dropped to the bottom of the sea.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Oddly, though, the hydrophones picked up intermittent strings of clicks, not long steady streams.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Apr. 2016
  • The hydrophone system will dangle in the water suspended from this boat’s prow.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Apr. 2016
  • The row of hydrophones detected the signal only when the narrow beam pointed its way.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Apr. 2016
  • Knapp cut the engine, plugged a hydrophone into a pair of boat speakers, and dropped the device into the water.
    — Dyllan Furness, Outside Online, 20 Aug. 2020
  • The last step is the acoustic tag that allows researchers to listen via hydrophones within the harbor and around the state.
    — David A. Brown, Field & Stream, 13 Dec. 2019
  • The fifth and sixth hydrophone enable the system to determine an animal’s depth.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Apr. 2016
  • The hydrophone used on the Carson covers an area roughly 25 meters wide.
    — Nicholas Turner, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Feb. 2022
  • Bouncing back to the surface, the sound waves are detected by hydrophones hung from a series of cables being towed by the ship.
    — Drew Broach, NOLA.com, 13 Jan. 2018
  • Next up, the duo wants to perform a live duet with a whale by capturing the creature’s underwater sounds with a hydrophone.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2023
  • In this way, the four hydrophones record the three-dimensional sound field at a specific location.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
  • After the earthquake, the team used directional hydrophones to tune into the cetaceans' sounds, and then traveled to the source in their boat.
    — National Geographic, 31 Jan. 2020
  • One popular post featured a drone image of a polar bear taken during the hydrophone mission.
    — Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Dec. 2024
  • And early in the cruise, fishing gear got tangled in the 15-kilometer-long hydrophone cable.
    — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 30 June 2021
  • Dangling from each buoy on a 100-meter line was a hydrophone to detect underwater sound.
    — Claudia Geib, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Aug. 2022
  • The hydrophones used in the dolphin study also allowed the team to track how the dolphins are distributed along the mosaic of the floodplains.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2023
  • About a mile off Cape Henlopen, Fox brought the boat to an idle and tossed a hydrophone, wired to a receiver, overboard.
    — Andrew S. Lewis, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2023
  • The team is satisfied with its placement, as the hydrophones are well out into the river’s flow and will be able to catch sonar beams coming from many directions.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Apr. 2016
  • The researchers installed their hydrophones in the shallows, with three instruments aligned in a horizontal row and one each above and below.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Apr. 2016
  • Acoustic Monitoring The team used five hydrophones to listen in on the dolphins.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Each tag had motion sensors, a camera with a light, hydrophones to pick up echolocation clicks, and GPS.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Winderen is part of a long lineage of scientists, artists, composers, and musicians who have used hydrophone recordings for decades to surface rarely heard sounds of the sea.
    — Hazlitt, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Megan Winton, a scientist with the conservancy, submerged a hydrophone to check whether the shark bore a pinging tag.
    — New York Times, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Daphne also tows a hydrophone to collect corroborating audio, such as the whine of a hydraulic winch hoisting a fishing net.
    — Vanessa Minke-Martin, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Nov. 2020
  • The system then calculates how far that sound traveled to reach each hydrophone to determine the dolphin’s direction and distance.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Apr. 2016

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