aural

Example Sentences

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Unfortunately, Ms. Jacoby’s intriguing aural choices found scant counterpart in her choreography.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 20, 2026

His gently oddball vision of loner heroics has plenty of terror-steeped imagery to go with the referential sound design’s aural innocence of antiquated bloops, blurps and synthetic tones.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 16, 2026

That sort of line is as close as the movie gets to being funny, and the songs, while reasonably tuneful, are bland aural wallpaper.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

She is a superb mimic of nature’s aural realm — the sounds of animals, of a river, of trees in the wind, of rocks falling down a hillside.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2025

The first method is to teach a song by rote, a technique also known as aural learning, or “by ear.”

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin