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How to use sonic in a sentence

25 example sentences · adjective

Sonic means of or relating to sound. Example: “The podcast's intro and outro music, jingles, and sound effects are all part of its sonic branding.”

Examples of sonic by meaning

adjectiveOf or relating to sound.

  • a sonic extravagance
  • on a sonic level

More sentences with sonic

  • The podcast's intro and outro music, jingles, and sound effects are all part of its sonic branding.From the entry sonic branding
  • He earlier described it as a "secret sonic weapon" that "nobody else has."2026 January 24, Ellsworth Toohey, “Trump reveals sonic "discombobulator" used in Venezuela raid: "I'm not allowed to talk"”, in…. From the entry discombobulator
  • This sonic body has to decide which music track to play at any particular moment.2011, Julian Henriques, Sonic Bodies, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 125. From the entry selector
  • "Sonic Youth are always zeitgeisty,” says Cafritz, “so it sounded really appealing at that moment.2010, David Browne, Goodbye 20th Century, ReadHowYouWant, →ISBN, page 348. From the entry zeitgeisty
  • The tip should be calibrated with the sonifier against sonic pressure.1998, Mark Doolittle, Karen Reue, Lipase and Phospholipase Protocols, →ISBN, page 117. From the entry sonifier
  • However, recent work points to restricted intraciliary rather than cytoplasmic calcium effects subsequently regulating cellular sonic hedgehog signaling.2015 May 19, Sandra Habbig, Max Christoph Liebau, “Ciliopathies - from rare inherited cystic kidney diseases to basic cellular function”…. From the entry intraciliary
  • All the guitar solos (apart from “Watermelon In Easter Hay”) were xenochronous, creating a spacious, free-floating sonic universe.2005, Katherine Norman, editor, Poetry of Reality, Routledge, →ISBN, page 132. From the entry xenochronous
  • Sonic: OK then, let’s get ready to do this.2003, Sonic Team USA, Sonic Heroes, Sega, published 2003, PlayStation 2, Windows, GameCube, Xbox, level/area: Last Story. From the entry teamwork
  • Sonic: What you see is what you get!2001 June 23, Sonic Team USA, Sonic Adventure 2, Sega, published 2001. From the entry what you see is what you get
  • Finished with spiritual cleaning, Eir hunger satisfied, Sereah took a quick sonic shower and prepared Eirself for the formal dinner.1999 November 30, excalibor, “USS TITANIA: Preparations for dinner...”, in alt.starfleet.rpg (Usenet). From the entry eirself
  • Join us before the concert at 3pm for a Halloween party featuring sonic sorcery, our beloved costume contest and all other manner of Hogwartsian fun.2016 October 23, The Courier, volume 158, number 250, page F5. From the entry Hogwartsian
  • But if a sound source is a little thin, and needs some warmth, body, or “phatness,” a tube mic could provide useful “sonic makeup.”2015, Ian Corbett, Mic It!: Microphones, Microphone Techniques, and Their Impact on the Final Mix, Focal Press, →ISBN, page 76. From the entry phatness
  • For example I ask musicians to auralize the sound of cells dividing as a sonic metaphor in the score to Primordial Lift.2010, Pauline Oliveros, Sounding the Margins: Collected Writings 1992-2009, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 23. From the entry auralize
  • Disillusioned with lyrics, Scullin and his sonic soulmates have made an album that massages the temples with repetitive swathes of airy acoustica.2009 August 20, “Rock City rocks the Kes Band”, in Herald Sun. From the entry acoustica
  • Pushing her sonic palate even further, "Darkside Of Dallas" features live instrumentation and vocals by rowdy Aussie punks and former tourmates Ground Components.2007, CMJ New Music Monthly (Jan-Feb 2007, number 145, page 14). From the entry tourmate
  • In the nascent science of archeoacoustics, experts test the ancient sites for locations of "sonic intensity": echoes, rocks that gong when struck, etc.2007, Albert Goldbarth, The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems, 1972-2007, Graywolf Press. From the entry archaeoacoustics
  • It’s also sometimes criticized for its sonic limitations—most groups played the same way, at the same speed and with the same worldview, usually mining the same handful of influences.2022, Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties, New York: Penguin Press, →ISBN. From the entry grunge
  • To find the unique cells, I sonify the cells -- that is to subject them to sonic waves, which makes up a homgenous paste of them.2015, Brent Ayscough, The Visitor, →ISBN. From the entry sonify
  • The idea developed with the “sonic level” was to sonify the angle relative to the horizontal axis using a virtual orchestra (an accordion, a guitar and drums).2014, Mitsuko Aramaki, Olivier Derrien, Richard Kronland-Martinet, Sound, Music, and Motion, →ISBN. From the entry sonify
  • But, just as sonic heirs such as La Roux or Little Boots capitalise on their groundwork, the old electro guard return with works of real solidity and depth.2009 April 24, Tony Naylor, “Emerging victorious”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 26 Feb 2024. From the entry groundwork
  • It turns out that's way more gain than you need for a keyboard, but you don't have to use all of it to benefit from the sonic characteristics.2006, Keyboard, volume 32, numbers 1-6, page 132. From the entry way
  • Electroclash began as an esoteric offshoot of techno, revisiting some of the genre's original sonic touchstones: Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode, New Order, Afrika Bambaataa and New York disco.2002 March 22, Dorian Lynskey, “Out with the old, in with the older”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 27 Feb 2023. From the entry electroclash
  • A quarter-century later, the Band’s music provided a key template for the acts first labeled Americana, including Son Volt, Wilco and Lucinda Williams, as well as for their sonic heirs.[2023 August 9, “Robbie Robertson, 80, Dies; Canadian Songwriter Captured American Spirit”, in The New York Times, archived from the…. From the entry Americana

Meaning of sonic

  1. adjective Of or relating to sound.
  2. adjective Having a speed approaching that of the speed of sound in air.

Full definition of sonic

Questions about sonic in a sentence

How do you use sonic in a sentence?
Sonic is used as an adjective. For example: “The podcast's intro and outro music, jingles, and sound effects are all part of its sonic branding.”
What is a short sentence with sonic?
“a sonic extravagance”
What does sonic mean?
Sonic means of or relating to sound.

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