vibrations

Example Sentences

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The vibrations can feel so strange to first-timers that they forget to breathe, or maybe they haven’t eaten beforehand, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

So the team subjected the capsule to vibrations in the lab to ensure everything would still work after that kind of extreme shaking.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026

But as he listened to hours of Huber’s recordings of underwater sounds and learned more about how the vibrations of the sound acted as a catalyst to the reaction, he got on board.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

Alonso eventually retired as a result of discomfort caused by vibrations from the Honda engine with 23 laps to go.

From BBC • Mar. 15, 2026

Even though it doesn’t agree with the way nature seems to work, Planck’s strange hypothesis—that molecular vibrations were quantized—led to the correct formula for the frequencies of light that come off an object.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife