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How to use volume in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Volume means a three-dimensional measure of space that comprises a length, a width and a height. It is measured in units of cubic centimeters in metric, cubic inches or cubic feet in English measurement. Example: “The room is 9×12×8, so its volume is 864 cubic feet.”

Examples of volume by meaning

nounA three-dimensional measure of space that comprises a length, a width and a height. It is measured in units of cubic...

  • The room is 9×12×8, so its volume is 864 cubic feet.
  • The proper products can improve your hair's volume.
  • The extracts were then dried with anhydrous sodium sulfate, concentrated using a rotary evaporator followed by flushing using nitrogen until the volume was about 0.5 ml.1997, A. J. Taylor, D. S. Mothram, editors, Flavour Science: Recent Developments, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 63

nounStrength of sound: how loud it is.

  • Please turn down the volume on the stereo.
  • Volume can be measured in decibels.
  • So, Donald Trump, since I know you’re watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up.2025 November 5, Zohran Mamdani, “The Full Transcript of Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Speech”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New...

nounThe issues of a periodical over a period of one year.

  • I looked at this week's copy of the magazine. It was volume 23, issue 45.

nounA single book of a publication issued in multi-book format, such as an encyclopedia.

  • The letter "G" was found in volume 4.

nounQuantity.

  • The volume of ticket sales decreased this week.

verbTo cause to move through the air, waft.

  • The censer, voluming upwards its ash-gray smoke, was now passed from hand to hand three times round the patient, and finally deposited on the floor at his feet.1900, Walter William Skeat, chapter 6, in Malay Magic, London: Macmillan, page 420
  • The record player on the first floor volumed up Lonnie Johnson singing, “Tomorrow night, will you remember what you said tonight?”1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 33, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 219

More sentences with volume

  • The second volume in "The Lord of the Rings" series is called "The Two Towers".From the entry second
  • Why would you want to play heavy metal at such a low volume?From the entry low
  • Let's decrease the volume a little so we can hear each other talking.From the entry decrease
  • Lake Baikal is the world's largest freshwater lake in terms of volume.From the entry freshwater
  • The patterns on the screen relate to the pitch and volume of the music being played.From the entry relate
  • If we up the volume, we may be able to hear what he says.From the entry up
  • Archimedes determined the volume of objects by immersing them in water.From the entry immerse
  • A rush of business can be difficult to handle effectively for its unexpected volume.From the entry rush
  • Due to the sheer volume of guests, we had to have two sittings for the meal.From the entry sitting
  • Could you back off the volume a bit? It’s really loud.From the entry back off
  • The volume occupied by the star's exploding gases underwent a trillionfold increase.From the entry trillionfold
  • The official report runs to several thousand pages in 12 volumes.From the entry run to
  • The lighted decorated Christmas tree, a treat for all, speaks volumes of meaning.From the entry speak volumes
  • Map "volume down" to the F2 key.From the entry map
  • Does this volume of Shakespeare include his sonnets?From the entry include
  • The teenager spent hours cranking out volumes of bad poetry.From the entry crank out
  • His volume is reasonable, but his articulation could use work.From the entry articulation
  • Low rates for backhaul account for the huge volume of waste paper shipped to Asia from the US.From the entry backhaul
  • He cranked up the volume to 11.From the entry crank up
  • The volume is also available in a slipcased gift edition.From the entry slipcased
  • The book was an epic in four volumes.From the entry epic
  • In this business, breakeven is a numbers game: if you can achieve enough volume, you'll be all right.From the entry numbers game
  • I can speak volumes about this school.From the entry speak volumes
  • Just reach me down that volume, would you.From the entry reach down
  • The number of particles per unit volume of a specified volume can be considered to be the particle density for the specified volume.From the entry density
  • We can use this voice-activated remote control to change the channel or adjust the volume of the TV without touching the remote control.From the entry voice-activated
  • We unretired this machine because one of our customers started reordering large volumes of a part that this machine can make super-efficiently.From the entry unretire
  • Growers in the region had overplanted their wheat in a desperate attempt to mitigate slim margins by "making it up on volume".From the entry overplant
  • The basic difference between Riemannian and affine differential geometry is that in the affine case we introduce volume forms over a manifold instead of metrics.From the entry affine differential geometry

Meaning of volume

  1. noun A three-dimensional measure of space that comprises a length, a width and a height. It is measured in units of cubic centimeters in metric, cubic inches or cubic feet in English measurement.
  2. noun Strength of sound: how loud it is.
  3. noun The issues of a periodical over a period of one year.

Full definition of volume

Questions about volume in a sentence

How do you use volume in a sentence?
Volume is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The room is 9×12×8, so its volume is 864 cubic feet.”
What is a short sentence with volume?
“Volume can be measured in decibels.”
What does volume mean?
Volume means a three-dimensional measure of space that comprises a length, a width and a height. It is measured in units of cubic centimeters in metric, cubic inches or cubic feet in English measurement.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: volume (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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