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sound barrier

NOUN
  1. the increase in aerodynamic drag as an airplane approaches the speed of sound

How To Use sound barrier In A Sentence

  • Fast fighter jets -- many traveling within earshot of the sound barrier -- will headline the shows.
  • There is usually a sonic boom when an aircraft breaks the sound barrier.
  • In 1979, Stanley Barrett broke the sound barrier on land.
  • This track made a sighting from the center unlikely, but that loss was tempered by the distinctive double sonic boom that literally shakes the sky as she comes thru the sound barrier on final approach. Space Shuttle Discovery Returns Home - NASA Watch
  • A skydiver made history by becoming the first man to break the sound barrier after leaping from 128,097ft. Times, Sunday Times
  • Until now they have been researched for more pragmatic solutions, such as sound barriers beside roads. Times, Sunday Times
  • There is usually a sonic boom when an aircraft breaks the sound barrier.
  • However, Leon quickly broke the sound barrier, running to the other side of the Geno, the side where the guns weren't firing.
  • To start with the status acoustic environment of the Wukuang residential area, some considerations and ways of sound barrier design were given for protecting the residents from highway noise.
  • At the time of his death Campbell was unsuccessfully seeking backers for a jet-driven car to go through the sound barrier.
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