How to Use sound bite in a Sentence

sound bite

noun
  • His campaign relies on catchy sound bites.
  • Even now, the clips and sound bites pack a punch.
    — Daniel Brown, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2026
  • The sound bites from this episode are enticing.
    — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Any sound bite is a potential weapon.
    — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Any sound bite is a potential weapon.
    — Arkansas Online, 15 Jan. 2026
  • The sound bite was just that, a bite, one that in a way played a role in his resurgence.
    — Creg Stephenson, AL.com, 14 Jan. 2018
  • He was often drawn to scripts whose stories could be boiled down to a sound bite.
    — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2022
  • Not to say that this isn’t the right thing for other docs, but this wasn’t about sound bites.
    — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2025
  • But Navarro is not telling the whole story with his sound bite.
    — Glenn Kessler, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Ronny’s still not sure what difference these sound bites make.
    — Claire McNeill, miamiherald, 4 May 2018
  • Since then, there have been myriad reports and sound bites, from both sides.
    — Andy Swift, TVLine, 21 June 2024
  • None of which makes for a good sound bite in discussions with India.
    — Justin Worland, Time, 28 June 2023
  • But getting there is going to require a lot more than a catchy slogan and some sound bites.
    — Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 9 Jan. 2025
  • There were no knockdowns, no calls from commentators that now live on as sound bites.
    — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025
  • But the media gets a headline, sometimes a sound bite, the pundits.
    — Fox News, 18 Aug. 2018
  • Pelosi’s discursive style of speaking does not lend itself to sound bites.
    — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 20 Nov. 2018
  • This is not the first time a pro-Trump PAC has used the sound bite.
    — Savannah Behrmann, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2020
  • There are no hearings, no markups, no sound bites, and therefore nothing to focus on.
    — Margaret Sullivan, Alaska Dispatch News, 21 June 2017
  • Below, check out our favorite sound bites from the interview.
    — Julia Marzovilla, Billboard, 25 Apr. 2018
  • One physician’s stubborn pursuit for meaning with one foot out the door doesn’t make a neat sound bite.
    — Jay Baruch, STAT, 10 Nov. 2022
  • The poster is exactly that, a sound bite, and vernacular to the core.
    — New York Times, 15 Oct. 2020
  • The sound bite took off, used in videos posted by national brands such as Mattel.
    — Courtney Vinopal, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The dude was a nonstop hype video in human form, talking himself up in sound bite after sound bite.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Beyond obligatory hearings and sound bites, the politicos need to stay out of this.
    — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2018
  • There’s a sound bite of Amanda saying that this is Lisey’s story.
    — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 16 July 2021
  • But the hype — every syllable and sound bite — was justified by the game.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Though the vice president doesn’t have an account herself, her sound bite has millions of plays.
    — New York Times, 19 Mar. 2022
  • This is a form of broadcast news writing in which an anchor reads a story over video then pauses for a brief sound bite.
    — Cindy Metzler, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2021
  • That recording is then used by broadcast voice actors to create a sound bite for the commencement.
    — Kendall Staton The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 25 May 2026
  • Her job is to spin the flare-ups of a dying climate into cute, consumable sound bites for viewers.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2025

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