ambient
Example Sentences
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The Restore 3 is a sleeper’s Swiss Army knife, with a variety of white noise and other ambient sounds, along with gentle lighting to ease you into—and out of—your bed.
So much so, that this clay now has an ambient temperature of between 20C and 25C, making it very difficult to cool down tube carriages and platforms on the network.
From BBC
Among the items covered by that mandatory fee: white noise machines, for those who don’t appreciate the ambient sounds of a $300-plus-a-night city hotel.
From Washington Post
A trip aboveground with a handheld dB meter found the ambient street noise — street vendors chatting, kids playing and laughing, buses whooshing by — hovering at an average of 72 dB.
From Los Angeles Times
In later years, Mr. Sakamoto’s music became increasingly spacious and ambient, attuned to the flow of time.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
