How to Use volume in a Sentence

volume

noun
  • The volume is too loud.
  • Can you turn the volume up?
  • She fiddled with the volume on the stereo.
  • We measure the items by weight, not by volume.
  • The box has a volume of three cubic meters.
  • Huge volumes of park visitors come through every weekend.
  • There should be a lot of volume in the ground game on both sides.
    Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2024
  • To start the boot drive, hold down the button to lower the volume and press the power button.
    Saira Mueller, WIRED, 3 Dec. 2023
  • The more-than-four-hundred-page-long second volume is well worth the wait.
    Emil Ferris, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2024
  • Tip: Don’t try to make meringues on a very humid or damp day; the egg whites won’t whip up to their full volume.
    Hugh Garvey, Sunset Magazine, 22 Nov. 2023
  • The side part, allowing the hair to fall over one eye for extra volume!
    Kara Nesvig, Allure, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The hair was teased and teased again for inches and inches of volume at the crown, with the length falling all the way to her lower back.
    Kara Nesvig, Allure, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Bonus: Deploy it as a styling product to pump up hair volume.
    Garrett Munce, Men's Health, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Then there is the root volume, which encourages the hair to fall over her face just slightly… but not too much.
    Hannah Coates, Vogue, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Lead: Year over year, craft volume fell about 2 percent.
    Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Sep. 2023
  • This wouldn't be the first time Bella has turned up the volume regarding her hairstyles.
    Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Portland, meanwhile, seemed out of sync and did not produce a high volume of chances.
    oregonlive, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Joey: The instructions were: when the volume escalates, give your best Kris Kuss.
    Daniel Kohn, Spin, 1 Sep. 2023
  • But Take Note The full coverage of this case means the outer buttons on the shell, such as the volume buttons, are covered.
    Tanya Edwards, Parents, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Vintners more than made up for that lower volume, though.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Fortunately, both Apple and Google have services that will ring the phone at full volume even if the ringer is turned off.
    Larry Magid, The Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Six volumes of the graphic novel were published, with the most recent dropping in 2010.
    Joe Otterson, Variety, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Stone walls offer small mammals porous volumes in which to live their furtive lives.
    Robert M. Thorson, Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2023
  • The first print volume debuted in 2019, and the latest book in the series became the U.K.’s fastest-selling graphic novel.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 17 Mar. 2024
  • Many of the workers who remain feel burned out and are struggling to handle a higher volume of patients.
    Emily Baumgaertner, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Imagine the mass of Earth condensed to the volume of a marble; imagine a million suns condensed to the volume of a single sun—that’ll give you an idea of a black hole.
    Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Adding to the challenge is the fact that artisans skilled in the handcraft — and with the capacity to generate the sheer volume needed — are scarce.
    Fawnia Soo Hoo, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Feb. 2024
  • Humpback whales feed on krill and small fish, and strain huge volumes of water through the baleen plates in their mouths, which act as a filter-feeding system.
    Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Our tester has been noticing hair thinning along the sides of her head, and this formula helped improve the volume of hair near her temples.
    Jessie Quinn, Peoplemag, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The social media star wore her hair in tousselled, beachy waves with lots of face-framing volume.
    Seventeen, 19 Apr. 2023

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