How to Use inner ear in a Sentence

inner ear

noun
  • Bony bumps in the skulls of voles that house the inner ear shrank over time.
    — Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 June 2025
  • But how is the inner ear able to tune into the faintest of sounds?
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 18 Mar. 2025
  • The sound is then carried along the teeth, through the jaw bones to the inner ear.
    — Smriti Rao, Discover Magazine, 3 Feb. 2010
  • His inner ear is fine—the fall was not a result of poor balance.
    — Han Ong, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
  • While some parts of the ear can repair themselves, the inner ear cannot.
    — Jillian Hubertz, Discover Magazine, 5 Oct. 2024
  • The bony bumps in the voles’ skulls that hold the inner ear became smaller over time.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 26 June 2025
  • To make the inner ear shapes, trace your child's pinky finger onto two pieces of white felt.
    — Annabelle Canela, Parents, 16 Apr. 2025
  • To make the inner ear shapes, trace your child's pinky finger onto two pieces of white felt.
    — Annabelle Canela, Parents, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Once cool, pipe on pink frosting or use pink candy melts to create the inner ear.
    — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Skull and inner ear fractures spun me out of body and consciousness.
    — Lydia Bell, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 June 2026
  • Long-term high blood sugar may damage your inner ear's small blood vessels and nerves.
    — Barbie Cervoni, Ms, Rd, Cdces, Cdn, Health, 18 Oct. 2023
  • The images showed a little patch of something on the right side of her skull, near her inner ear.
    — New York Times, 31 Mar. 2021
  • If that doesn’t work, surgery to plug a certain part of your inner ear may also be an option.
    — Rachel Nall, SELF, 17 June 2025
  • The action sends pressure waves through the liquid in the cochlea, the snail shell of the inner ear.
    — Popular Science, 21 Jan. 2020
  • Their ability to hear comes from small bones near their skull that link their swim bladder and their inner ear.
    — National Geographic, 20 Oct. 2019
  • Multiple surgeries have tried to repair bones in her inner ear and her skull.
    — Scott Pelley, CBS News, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Hughes used plastic tubing to build a model of the inner ear.
    — oregonlive, 15 Oct. 2019
  • That would help determine whether the source of the dizziness was a problem in the inner ear.
    — Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2017
  • On a rocky ship or a turbulent plane, the inner ear senses movement.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 28 Oct. 2023
  • An otolith is an inner ear bone found in salmon and other fish that develops a new layer each year.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 30 July 2022
  • Stewart's own research has found evidence of the virus in the inner ear.
    — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 5 Nov. 2020
  • Pirelli's most exotic and grippy street-legal tires put your inner ear to the test.
    — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 22 Oct. 2021
  • This latest find is the first to preserve both the teeth and inner ear structures in fine detail.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The find shows a flexed brain and large inner ear evolved earlier than thought, Fabbri says.
    — Bytess Joosse, science.org, 27 Sep. 2022
  • The piercing in the inner ear is the conch, Lopez's all-time favorite ear piercing.
    — Leah Prinzivalli, Allure, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Lever good and hard for a cornering advantage and your inner ear grunts out the message.
    — Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 26 June 2020
  • Otoliths are formed in a fish’s inner ear with calcium carbonate layers as the fish grows.
    — The Arizona Republic, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Loud noises cause intense vibrations that can affect the cochlea in the inner ear.
    — Toby Grey, BGR, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Aside from being irritating, noise can harm the body in two ways, both of which target the inner ear.
    — Michael Ciaglo, National Geographic, 5 June 2020
  • The hoots when the Giants drafted Jones sixth overall still hum in the inner ears.
    — Sally Jenkins, courant.com, 27 Sep. 2019

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