loudness
Example Sentences
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"You measure the joke by the number of groans and the loudness of the groans around the table," Ms Harris says.
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2025
He could seem loud — and loudness is something Norman Lear’s shows reveled in — even when he’s speaking quietly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025
Mitchell’s John contends with that loudness and insistent inhumanity without having previous exposure to it online or on his mobile phone, which is the same Nokia Lucy gifted him 20 years ago.
From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2025
The sounds were kept at a moderate volume of 65 decibels—about the same loudness as a conversation in a bar or city traffic—and they couldn’t be heard by the parent birds.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 24, 2024
I feel like a crystal glass that’s going to shatter if the noise and the tension, if the struggle and the fighting, if the loudness of it all rises even one decibel more.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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