sound barrier

Example Sentences

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"Even during our religious holidays, even on Good Friday, jets fly over us and break the sound barrier just to scare us," al-Jamal said.

From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026

Turns out, it wasn’t a language barrier, it was a sound barrier.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2025

Chief Executive Bryon Hargis said it isn’t the straightforward engineering of quintupling the sound barrier that has held the U.S. back, but the manufacturing challenge of mass-producing weapons that can do so reliably and economically.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

And in Granbury, Texas, a 24ft-high sound barrier was erected in 2023 at a mining site after residents complained to public officials that the nonstop roar was keeping them awake and giving them migraines.

From BBC • May 22, 2025

It wasn’t until the class erupted in applause that the sound barrier was broken.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas