How to Use sonic boom in a Sentence
sonic boom
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For some residents, the sonic booms and the increasing number of rocket blasts have had an effect on their lives.
—Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2024
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Jet2 said the jets caused a sonic boom that was heard for miles.
—Time Staff, Time, 19 July 2019
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The mystery of the sonic boom that blitzed San Diego 10 days ago has been cleared up.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2021
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The Air Force did its best to explain what sonic booms were.
—John Kelly, Washington Post, 6 June 2023
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The plan is to use flights like this to show the public what low sonic booms sound like and get feedback.
—CBS News, 16 Oct. 2017
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Hard to say) and got low enough in the atmosphere to have the sonic boom carried by air.
—Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 18 Oct. 2012
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But by the end of the decade, most people viewed sonic booms as a public nuisance.
—J. George Gorant, Robb Report, 8 May 2024
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The eruption set off a sonic boom that could be heard as far away as Alaska.
—Nick Perry, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Jan. 2022
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It’s time again for glittering lights and sonic booms to fill the sky in the name of democracy.
—Trevor Fraser, orlandosentinel.com, 26 June 2019
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Here's a timeline of the plane's path, and the military response that led to a sonic booms over the D.C. region and along the East Coast.
—Luis Martinez, ABC News, 6 June 2023
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The sonic boom was caused when the F-16s his supersonic speeds.
—Tracey Harrington McCoy, Peoplemag, 5 June 2023
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As the shock wave passes over an observer on the ground, the change in air pressure produces the sonic boom.
—Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 23 Jan. 2017
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But engineers are hard at work on ways to quiet the sonic boom.
—Kate Baggaley /, NBC News, 31 Jan. 2018
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On October 15, a sonic boom announced to the world that Green (backed by Noble) was now the fastest man on earth.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 24 Nov. 2018
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The fighter jet caused a loud sonic boom that was heard across the capital region.
—Michael Balsamo and Ashley Thomas, Anchorage Daily News, 5 June 2023
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And no—there won't be a sonic boom if the hyperloop reaches this speed, since that won't be the speed of sound at the low pressure inside of the tube.
—Rhett Allain, WIRED, 10 Apr. 2018
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The sonic boom, which was heard as far away as Portland, came moments later.
—Kale Williams, OregonLive.com, 8 Mar. 2018
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The sonic booms from landings sometimes set off the burglar alarms that hung from our door handles.
—Sarah Scoles, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2017
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In the garage a sonic boom, courtesy of a military jet high above the desert, cracks like an overhead cannon shot.
—Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 14 Oct. 2015
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The changes were as evident as the meteor and sonic boom that rattled the frigid city of Detroit this week.
—Keith Naughton, Bloomberg.com, 18 Jan. 2018
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The sonic boom was dangerous to nearby personnel even before the plane took to the skies.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 13 Aug. 2020
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Noise and complaints from homeowners limit where the planes can fly, owing to the sonic boom produced to fly faster than the speed of sound.
—NBC News, 3 June 2021
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As those objects travel through the air, molecules are pushed aside with great force and this forms a shock wave, heard as a sonic boom.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 4 Jan. 2022
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Here’s more on why supersonic flight creates sonic booms, and how the X-59 could change that.
—Rob Verger, Popular Science, 15 June 2023
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The aircraft uses new technologies to fly faster than Mach 1 while reducing the noise of the loud sonic boom.
—Sascha Brodsky, Popular Mechanics, 13 July 2023
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In order to catch up with the plane, the jets were authorized to fly at supersonic speeds, and the sonic boom came from the two F-16 jets out of Andrews.
—Greg Wehner, Fox News, 5 June 2023
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Its return created a sonic boom that could be heard across the Guadalupe Mountains.
—Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2021
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Officials say sonic booms have been caused in the past by military planes doing drills along the east coast.
—CBS News, 25 Oct. 2017
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Just then, the sonic boom caused by the landing punches your eardrums and internal organs.
—Popular Mechanics, 19 Apr. 2018
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In the case of the trains, the resulting sonic booms and vibrations can make for an uncomfortable ride.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 24 Oct. 2023
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