acoustic

Example Sentences

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The track begins almost like an acoustic ballad before corrido-like trumpets cut through, followed by spicy synths that pull the song into a completely different emotional register.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026

He has already won a lasting place in the line of such raspy-voiced singer-songwriters as Bob Dylan, John Prine, Bruce Springsteen and Steve Earle, pivoting between acoustic, folk-influenced country and occasional pounding rock.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

The brief “Target Practice” opens the LP with a jaunty acoustic guitar figure and Mr. Picton’s somewhat reedy voice, and then adds a string section and massed voices that ratchet up the density and volume.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

Detection is the foundation: radar, radio-frequency sensing, acoustic systems and electro-optical cameras that establish airspace awareness before a threat materializes.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 13, 2026

“Hmm. Perhaps it was a mouse, after all, or the echo of harbor traffic. Pipes do have strange acoustic effects.”

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart