background noise

noun

: undesired sound that is heard in a radio broadcast, a tape recording, etc.

The recording had a lot of background noise.

Examples of background noise in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The implications for business are significant, yet music is still often treated as background noise. — Bija Bennett, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026

Legal proceedings unfold amid overlapping speakers, interruptions, background noise, regional accents, and dense technical vocabulary. — K.h. Koehler, USA Today, 17 July 2026

Even a light background noise from one of them would shift the feel to country. — Sophie Lindberg, Kansas City Star, 16 July 2026

And so background noise doesn’t distract your comrades, the headset uses a highly sensitive unidirectional microphone to silence noise from your rig and other background noise. — Kelsey Fogarty, PC Magazine, 14 July 2026

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