How to Use soundscape in a Sentence

soundscape

noun
  • The film has such a vivid soundscape.
    — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 14 Aug. 2025
  • For some blind birders, avian soundscapes are a way to map the world around them.
    — Alexandra Marvar, New York Times, 3 Aug. 2023
  • There’s no telling how the world’s soundscape will feel to her afterward.
    — Annalee Newitz, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2023
  • The whole soundscape just feels more alive - and any scoring work carries more force, too.
    — John Archer, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Visitors will smell the rich soil and plant life as a soundscape shifts over the course of the day.
    — The Editors, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Their minarets dot the skyline and the five daily calls to prayer are part of the city’s soundscape.
    — Terri Colby, Chicago Tribune, 12 Feb. 2025
  • All of this requires a soundscape that is out of the ordinary.
    — Courtney E. Smith, refinery29.com, 7 June 2019
  • The calls of migratory geese and gulls are once again in the city soundscape.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 11 Apr. 2018
  • The soundscapes for our series are the secret sauce of a great wildlife series.
    — Olivia Morelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Oct. 2023
  • The soundscape is more than just the music because each song tells the story of the film.
    — Matt McNulty, PEOPLE.com, 16 July 2019
  • Yet even here, at the bottom of the Earth, the soundscape is shifting.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Cudi shouted out the top nine draft prospects against a soundscape of rock classics.
    — Victoria Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2021
  • The app has sleep stories, music, and soundscapes all designed to lull you to sleep.
    — Medea Giordano, WIRED, 27 Nov. 2023
  • The entire audience, from venue wall to venue wall, swayed to the cozy soundscape.
    — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Cobain’s moody soundscape bolsters Bay Swag’s lothario tales.
    — Shanae Hardy, Billboard, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Eliza Vedar designed the soundscape, which is heard through headphones.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Sonic booms were part of the soundscape, along with the throaty, chest-tingling roar of fighter planes.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 6 June 2023
  • Consider the effect that small region of the world has had on our soundscape.
    — Jesse Adams, The Washington Examiner, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The soundscape is not deathly quiet, dusted by the echoes of a lizard whooshing through the sand.
    — Chris Hayes, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Once inside, there’s no respite to the barrage of images and the soundscape that surround you.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The soundscape functions as a counterweight to some of the bleaker scenes.
    — Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2021
  • At one point, a throwback to the baroque era emerges amid the edgy soundscape, like a repressed memory.
    — Tim Smith, baltimoresun.com, 26 June 2018
  • Jazz trumpet struts added a cool noir quality to the soundscapes, and mandolin sprints brought a fiery flair.
    — Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2019
  • The soundscape of freshwater habitats is such a comfort to me.
    — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Perhaps this will inspire them to listen to the soundscape of their own lives and own history.
    — Tembi Locke, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The audio is beautiful, but in all but a few scenes the soundscapes are nonverbal.
    — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Seghers’ soundscape adds to the drama — singing birds, clip-clopping horses’ hoofs, a panting dog and more.
    — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 4 June 2021
  • This can create a 3D soundscape from any movie soundtrack or music.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Hike leaders will focus the group on the natural soundscape of the landscape.
    — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2024
  • The show has no score, diverging from the iconic soundscape of ER.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 9 Feb. 2025

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