How to Use loudness in a Sentence

loudness

noun
  • The loudness comes from the speed of the event.
    — Ahmad Bajjey, CBS News, 23 Jan. 2026
  • That voice has been blocked by all the loudness in your life.
    — Darick Spears, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2021
  • This is done to keep the loudness of the drums out of the mics.
    — Allison Stewart, chicagotribune.com, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Actors have to lip sync due to the pace and loudness of the mazes.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023
  • And, from our tests, the loudness depends on the track or genre.
    — Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 5 Oct. 2020
  • The data in the file shows how the loudness and pitch of the sound changes over time.
    — Ben Finio, Scientific American, 5 Dec. 2019
  • The moment of loudness has been a constant, at home and on the road.
    — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Dec. 2021
  • The loudness of the printer gets the twenty-one-year-old off the sofa.
    — Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2025
  • They weren’t being beaten over the head by the same beats or loudness from other bands.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The audio files have been matched post-production to have the same loudness.
    — Geoff Edgers, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Sound was balanced across the board but lacked some vibrancy and loudness.
    — Michael Andronico, CNN Underscored, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Our ears will have to get accustomed to the loudness of a live DJ.
    — Andrew Simmons, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 June 2021
  • Every six decibels is perceived by the ears as about a doubling of loudness.
    — Julia Belluz, Vox, 31 May 2018
  • But the kind of forcing people to make decisions based on that loudness.
    — NBC News, 8 Aug. 2021
  • Roughness is a quality that reflects the rate at which a scream changes or varies in loudness.
    — Frank T. McAndrew, The Conversation, 28 Oct. 2019
  • But the loudness, or amount of energy in noise, is measured by decibels.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The loudness threatened to drown out Vallas, who struggled to be heard.
    — Chicago Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 3 May 2018
  • Plus, some level of loudness seems to benefit the bottom line.
    — Chris Berdik, Popular Science, 28 Jan. 2020
  • What stood out was the loudness, and pervasiveness, of the music.
    — Omari Sankofa Ii, Detroit Free Press, 13 Dec. 2020
  • There's little here in the way of catharsis, but there's a sense that talking beats back the loudness of absence.
    — Julia Felsenthal, Vogue, 15 Sep. 2017
  • Decibels measure the loudness of a sound while hertz measure the frequency of a sound.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 4 July 2021
  • Saying the quiet part out loud has given way to a general loudness.
    — Namwali Serpell, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2025
  • There wasn’t any loudness or movement or action scenes or witty repartee to get lost in and lean into.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Decibels measures the loudness of a sound while hertz measures the frequency of a sound.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 3 July 2020
  • The loudness can also be turned down at any time by pushing the M Sound button.
    — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 9 Mar. 2023
  • The loudness, length and quality of meows and yelps have a variety of meanings.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 23 July 2022
  • So Jordan now refuses to tone down her speech, dress, the loudness of her voice in the corporate world.
    — Jonece Starr Dunigan, AL.com, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Volume The pressure of sound vibrations, heard in terms of the loudness of music.
    — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 15 June 2018
  • How fast the bellows is pumped determines the accordion’s loudness.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Dec. 2022
  • The earphones will reduce the loudness once the AirPods detect the sounds.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 30 Sep. 2022

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