How to Use sound wave in a Sentence

sound wave

noun
  • The sound waves hit these five-foot-deep cones and get trapped.
    — Charlotte Hu, Popular Science, 7 Sep. 2023
  • That channels the sound waves up through the tubes to the ears.
    — courant.com, 23 Oct. 2019
  • This sound wave pushed the fog out of the air to form a fog-free channel.
    — Sophia Chen, Wired, 29 Apr. 2020
  • But light waves are different from ocean waves or sound waves.
    — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Rogers showed the students how a sound wave moved using a slinky.
    — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 27 Mar. 2018
  • The sounds waves are recorded and used to map the Earth's crust.
    — Drew Broach, NOLA.com, 13 Jan. 2018
  • Short bursts of sound waves nudged the kink a few disks at a time toward the sound source.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 22 Mar. 2026
  • During this time, the device sends sound waves through your skin.
    — Mark Gurarie, Health, 15 Mar. 2025
  • First, the skull weakens and distorts sound waves.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Just sound waves directed at the brain.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 2 Mar. 2026
  • The workers then use the tools to cut tiny holes in special glass with sound waves.
    — Erin Mansfield and Katie Wedell, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2020
  • The tech sends a beam of sound waves out into the water and looks for an echo back.
    — WIRED, 20 June 2023
  • In flight, the swirling tail sends out sound waves that conflict with those of the flapping wings.
    — Amy Raudenbush, Philly.com, 15 June 2018
  • Sonar uses sound wave echoes to find objects or map features of the ocean.
    — Brad Lendon, CNN, 22 June 2023
  • During this process, sound waves and light waves are coupled, even though light waves are much faster.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Each transducer in an array has to emit a sound wave that is in phase with the rest.
    — Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 20 Apr. 2018
  • This then works like an acoustic pipette, blasting the mixture with sound waves.
    — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Cervi pulled up a file that showed the changing volume of the sound waves emitted from the drone.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
  • The built an acoustic atom, a chip-scale device that can trap and control sound waves.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 3 June 2026
  • Consider a sound wave on the top plate moving toward the hole.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 6 Dec. 2018
  • And it was greeted with a sound wave of validation from fans around the metro.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 16 May 2021
  • The ink was a cocktail of chemicals that respond to sound waves.
    — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Those stations sent sound waves toward the boundary of the core and mantle.
    — Lee Roop | [email protected], al, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The first wave to emerge from an earthquake, called the P-wave, is an acoustic, or sound wave.
    — Becky Oskin, Scientific American, 29 Jan. 2013
  • The sound waves travel through your body and bounce back to the transducer from your organs.
    — Suchandrima Bhowmik, Health, 22 June 2025
  • Its sound waves don’t move through the atmosphere in perfectly straight lines.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The sound waves that bounce back are used to map the Earth's crust and decipher its contents.
    — Tristan Baurick, NOLA.com, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Simply put, just like photons are quantized light waves, phonons are quantized sound waves.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The thin wall acts as a waveguide for the sound wave and slows its speed compared to an unconfined sound wave.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 2 Mar. 2022
  • Then the sound waves lengthen out again and become lower in pitch as the vehicle moves away.
    — Richard Conniff, Scientific American, 17 June 2019

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