How to Use pressure wave in a Sentence

pressure wave

noun
  • Some caused pressure waves and sonic booms.
    — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 27 Mar. 2026
  • As the space rock plunged through Earth’s atmosphere, the pressure wave caused sonic booms that were heard by some people in the area.
    — Jesse Kirsch, NBC news, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Shockwave makes a catheter that emits localized sonic pressure waves to crack hardened plaque in arteries.
    — George Avalos, Mercury News, 15 May 2026
  • Zuriguel is now exploring the handful of pressure waves that ripple through this crowd where people push against each other from the back of the plaza to the front.
    — Ari Daniel, NPR, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The resulting pressure wave struck the upper stage, damaging its engine nozzle extension and cutting thrust.
    — Travis Webb, Austin American Statesman, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The resulting pressure wave damaged the upper stage’s engine nozzle extension.
    — Karoline Leonard, Austin American Statesman, 19 Feb. 2026
  • In many ways, focused shock wave therapy is similar to radial pressure waves (RPW), in terms of form and function.
    — William Jones, jsonline.com, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Alpha's first-stage booster broke apart just after stage separation, generating a pressure wave that affected the upper stage's thrust.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Röösli noted that the injector, one of the most critical parts of the propulsion unit, had to precisely mix propane and liquid oxygen, and prevent destructive pressure waves from traveling backward into the supply lines.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 18 May 2026
  • Those challenges helped shape the engineering direction for Sola™, pushing the team to rethink the underlying physics of how sonic pressure waves are generated and delivered.
    — Malana Vantyler, USA Today, 17 Jan. 2026
  • There are two types of shockwave therapy, including radial shockwave therapy which disperses the pressure waves over a wider, shallower area, and focused shockwave therapy that targets the pressure at a precise point.
    — Allison Aubrey, NPR, 2 Mar. 2026
  • The Bolt intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) fractures calcium by creating acoustic pressure waves inside of a balloon catheter.
    — Hang Nguyen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The midair explosion released a pressure wave equivalent to 230–300 tons of TNT, and any surviving fragments likely fell into Cape Cod Bay.
    — Govert Schilling, Scientific American, 27 June 2026
  • At the press site, a pressure wave of a sonic boom came in with a double punch to the eardrums, followed by the roar of the engines from the pad only 3 miles away and the whistling echo bouncing off the massive Vehicle Assembly Building, making a sound reminiscent of bottle rockets.
    — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 Feb. 2026

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