Sound bite Definition & Meaning

Examples of sound-bite in a Sentence

Noun His campaign relies on catchy sound bites.

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun The context is long gone, but what Jimmy Vasser said on a race weekend at Milwaukee a quarter century ago remains a humorous sound bite. — Dave Kallmann, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 May 2022 Though the vice president doesn’t have an account herself, her sound bite has millions of plays. — New York Times, 19 Mar. 2022 A few minutes spent on Lilly Ledbetter, who took her fight for equal pay to the Supreme Court, makes sense, but a sound bite from Arianna Huffington feels perfunctory. — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2022 That sound bite caught on and turned into a song title. — Nick Remsen, Vogue, 5 Apr. 2022 The sound bite was met with immediate criticism and discourse, particularly surrounding Kardashian’s privilege and ignorance of the working lives of most people on the planet. — Whitney Perry, Glamour, 28 Mar. 2022 The sounds of screaming, gunfights and air-raid sirens were uploaded to TikTok as an original sound bite by one user and was then used on more than 240 videos purporting to be from Ukraine. — NBC News, 25 Feb. 2022 House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, a Louisiana Republican, delivered a sound bite that is likely to haunt vulnerable Democrats all the way to November, especially if oil prices continue to skyrocket. — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 9 Mar. 2022 Based on a traditional springtime folk song and reminiscent of the wailing sirens of the Chernobyl disaster, the song became a Ukrainian favorite and a popular sound bite on TikTok. — Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Mar. 2022 See More

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