How to Use unamplified in a Sentence

unamplified

adjective
  • Few of us could have heard unamplified music in more than a year.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 21 June 2021
  • Brave enough to send her bright, unamplified soprano out into thousands of ears each night.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 2 May 2024
  • Opera magnifies and connects you with the unamplified human voice.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024
  • Because one other thing that my non-opera-going friends are often surprised to find out is that opera singing is completely unamplified.
    — Nicholas Gallagher, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Not many of them could ever have experienced just how incredible a great, unamplified voice can be.
    — Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2021
  • Open up the rest of the public areas of the park to all the free — but unamplified, please — expression that anyone would ever want to offer or hear.
    — Eric Zorn, chicagotribune.com, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Steinmetz Hall, a state-of-the-art venue for unamplified music, is scheduled to open by fall 2020.
    — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 1 Aug. 2019
  • The unamplified crystalline sound of the singers — pure, modern but somehow Bach-like, too — seemed to lift the dancers as the whole lifted the audience.
    — Leah Garchik, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Feb. 2018
  • The resonance of the American soprano’s unamplified singing fills a room and seems to vibrate through your body.
    — Michael Zwiebach, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2026
  • In the quiet of Mater Dolorosa, his unamplified voice resonated.
    — Keith Spera, NOLA.com, 5 Nov. 2020
  • The unamplified music was full and rich, with the large canopy over the courtyard producing a welcome reverberation.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2021
  • And sound designer Jonathan Deans keeps both the miked performers and the unamplified instruments crisp and clear throughout.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Mar. 2022
  • On opening night, sound quality was erratic through portions of the show, with unamplified performers’ words swallowed by the theater.
    — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 19 Feb. 2021
  • That means an entertainment license wouldn’t be necessary anymore for bars that want to host trivia nights, for bowling alleys and for coffee shops that have an unamplified live performer.
    — Elliott Wenzler, Denver Post, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Most of the arrangements here keep things simple, generally leaning on unamplified sounds to complement Lynn’s country-as-grits voice.
    — Jon Freeman, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2021
  • Hearing them live in a regular unamplified environment was certainly very impressive.
    — Steve Marinucci, Billboard, 28 Oct. 2019
  • After having an unamplified conversation with fans closest to the stage and an exhibition of twerking to fill a few moments, Lizzo turned to walk offstage when her microphone sprang back to life.
    — David Lindquist, Indianapolis Star, 11 Dec. 2019
  • However, the other model simulated a smaller increase of 8 percent, which is close to the unamplified effect of water vapor capacity in warmer air.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 17 Dec. 2017
  • The theater is acoustically perfect for unamplified singers and musicians, and the design team has made excellent use of the theater’s lighting and projection technology.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Aug. 2019
  • But the theater’s intimacy allows for unamplified vocals and raises the emotional stakes of the piece, with its combustive romantic triangle and unstable magical kingdom of unicorns, fairies and jousting knights.
    — Julia M. Klein, Philly.com, 27 May 2018
  • Unfortunately, the building’s original design as a vaudeville hall and then movie theater did not meet modern requirements for quality acoustical support for unamplified, live instrumental music.
    — oregonlive, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Bordignon plays it most Sundays, but on May 24, the most sonorous of all unamplified instruments joins the Philadelphia Orchestra in a gala concert to raise money for the church’s restoration.
    — Music May 18, Vulture, 18 May 2022
  • Bennett said this will create an intimacy between the singers and audience, and the singers’ unamplified voices will expand more evenly and naturally throughout the 3,000-seat Civic auditorium.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2019

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