How to Use sound check in a Sentence

sound check

noun
  • Some don’t even show up to sound check.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 15 May 2026
  • On the road, Crawford could work on the book right up until the band’s sound check for a gig.
    — Melissa Melvin-Rodriguez, Charlotte Observer, 3 Mar. 2026
  • As the sound check continued, Puth goofed with his players.
    — Jane Bua, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
  • What if some big musician is screwing around at sound check and sings one of [Spinal Tap’s] songs.
    — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Nerves for myself but also for the band, considering all the walkouts during sound check.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Hours before the show, Richie shared behind-the-scenes photos on Instagram from rehearsal and the sound check.
    — Joe Kottke, NBC news, 25 June 2026
  • After scrambling to get the wedding together, Stone and his band rehearsed at sound check that afternoon.
    — Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 1 July 2026
  • No sound check, just out onstage feeling the dark mass of the audience, guided by the sounds in my ears and the floor monitors and the vibrations of it all.
    — Kim Gordon, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The thirty-three-year-old pop star Charlie Puth, headlining his first jazz residency, was due for a sound check with his band.
    — Jane Bua, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The random snippets come to her in the middle of conversations with friends or, far too often, while riffing during sound check and they get sorted into files.
    — Taylor Mims, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Their voices lock together seamlessly with notes soaring and settling softly in the same breath, as if Christmas spirit itself asked for a sound check.
    — Bryan West, USA Today, 1 Dec. 2025
  • The morning of It Was Just an Accident’s Toronto premiere, Panahi stops by the historic Royal Alexandra Theatre for a sound check.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Hours before Japanese jazz quintet The Blend was due to perform in Beijing on Thursday, a plainclothesman walked into the DDC music club during a sound check.
    — Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Charlie Brusco, who manages the band for Red Light Management, tells Billboard that Styx was in the midst of a sound check at the House of Blues in Los Angeles during the 2003 playoff game.
    — Gary Graff, Billboard, 12 Jan. 2026

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