How to Use sonic in a Sentence

sonic

adjective
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  • Those who work at home will have to deal with the sonic blitzkrieg.
    — Sal Vaglica, wsj.com, 10 May 2023
  • And that’s just the tip of this enchanting sonic iceberg.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Jan. 2023
  • Most people see the humor in it, and the way the woozy sonic touches play into the exploits of a pothead.
    — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 8 Mar. 2023
  • On one level, the album is the sonic equivalent of a grimy, sweaty dance floor.
    — Meg Walters, Glamour, 22 July 2024
  • Purists won't enjoy this sonic approach, but bass lovers should get a kick out of the low-end response.
    — PCMAG, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The sonic jewelry displayed glitters in the ear on and on.
    — Christopher Smith, Orange County Register, 23 July 2024
  • This is a band that has performed at big venues, that roams sonic landscapes and seldom stays still.
    — Reed Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Aguilera continued to take huge sonic and image risks in the wake of Stripped.
    — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2022
  • When the entire ensemble kicks in, though, the sonic picture seems to flatten out and lose lustre.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Yet in many cases, the sonic prod of choice appears to be classical music.
    — Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2023
  • The project includes an array of sonic elements from Afrobeat and Afropop to amapiano to R&B, gospel, and hints of mainstream trap and pop.
    — Emanuel Okusanya, Variety, 7 May 2024
  • Martin was a critical part of that sonic universe, contributing to eight of the 16 tracks on the album.
    — Nereya Otieno, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
  • But the different themes, the gestalt of the music, the sonic fabric, and the instruments, are determined prior.
    — Sonya Alexander, Rolling Stone, 26 Feb. 2023
  • Sometimes, the right sonic pivot changes the scope of popular music.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Treble is clear, though subdued compared with the midrange, which is a bit high and the only real sonic issue.
    — Geoffrey Morrison, wsj.com, 31 Oct. 2023
  • And church is such a sonic landscape from a professional view.
    — Ariel Shapiro, The Verge, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Then there’s the melodic element and the sonic element.
    — Simon Reynolds, Pitchfork, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The stock exchange, the largest in the world by market capitalization, has opened with sonic fanfare for more than 150 years.
    — Krystal Hur, CNN, 16 Mar. 2024
  • The record blends sounds of hip-hop, country, and folk into a sonic melting pot that serves as a microcosm of Shaboozey’s sound as a whole.
    — Okla Jones, Essence, 9 May 2024
  • That will continue, no matter how much sonic sludge the machines churn out.
    — Adam Clair, Vox, 1 July 2024
  • And while Afrobeats as a sonic choice has risen in popularity around the world within the last five years, Adé’s new sound is not just trend-chasing.
    — Britt Julious, Chicago Tribune, 8 May 2023
  • Finding the sonic palette for this project was quite difficult.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2022
  • The album is all over the map, with a colorful sonic palette of R&B, Afropop, guitar pop and even Japanese folk.
    — Thania Garcia, Variety, 9 June 2023
  • Both the Mozart and Schumann were sensibly scaled to the music from ages well before the sonic assaults of our 21st-century lives.
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 31 July 2023
  • With Night Reign, Aftab makes an emotional and sonic pivot.
    — Vrinda Jagota, SPIN, 29 May 2024
  • There, her sonic sweetness muddles after a crisp drum fill somewhere in the middle.
    — Maria Sherman, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 May 2024
  • Tubi last week unveiled a brand redesign with a new visual identity and sonic ID.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The piece seems to conjure a prehistoric avant-garde musical workshop, a sonic analogue of the visual culture that can be glimpsed in the cave.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
  • These 12 songs are a sonic bouquet of soul, R&B, hip-hop, and pop, about the radical joy of facing down your past and loving yourself anyway.
    — Sarah Grant, Rolling Stone, 16 July 2022
  • This is the zeitgeist as eavesdropped upon, then shaped up, given sonic punch, made resonant with the quirky agonies of the soul.
    — Buck Downs Anne Boyer, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2023

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