compression wave

Example Sentences

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He even had some prescient hunches about the mechanism of blast’s effects: the compression wave, the concussion and the toxic gases.

From New York Times • Jun. 10, 2016

My throat clamped up, a compression wave that traveled down my chest and into my stomach.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram

He knew the compression wave caused by his movement would warn all living creatures.

From The Flying Stingaree by Goodwin, Harold L. (Harold Leland)