How to Use attenuation in a Sentence

attenuation

noun

• The attenuation length of light in water is on the order of tens of meters.
  — Malcolm MacIver, Discover Magazine, 15 Mar. 2011
• On land, the attenuation length for light in air is on the order of 100 km.
  — Malcolm MacIver, Discover Magazine, 23 May 2011
• Effects of foot strike on low back posture, shock attenuation, and comfort in running.
  — Tom Michaud, Outside Online, 1 Aug. 2018
• Due to more rapid attenuation of high frequencies in air, bats have a shorter range – on the order a few meters for their prey.
  — Malcolm MacIver, Discover Magazine, 23 May 2011
• After light travels the attenuation length through a medium, about 63% of the light is blocked.
  — Malcolm MacIver, Discover Magazine, 15 Mar. 2011
• This has patent-pending attenuation filters and reduces the noise evenly.
  — Chris Hachey, BGR, 11 June 2021
• Ultimately, the virus went through a process called attenuation.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2021
• Detention basins provide flow control through storage and attenuation of storm water runoff.
  — Mackenzie Brower, The Arizona Republic, 12 Sep. 2021
• This tendency for a Giacometti-like attenuation was also seen at Alaïa, in the form of the must-have high-rise pant.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 10 Oct. 2023
• But, given the attenuation of social engagements during quarantine, there often seemed to be less and less to say to one another.
  — Jane Hu, The New Yorker, 11 June 2021
• Add an ounce of watermelon juice, and that drops to 11 to 12 percent, still stronger than a beer, but a noticeable attenuation.
  — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 25 Apr. 2026
• This usually involves new walls, ceilings, floors, angled sound attenuation, and even sound dampeners.
  — Cori Sears, The Spruce, 11 Jan. 2026
• Many of our instincts about the problem are tainted by misogyny and our historic subjugation of women and attenuation of women’s worth.
  — Time, 20 Sep. 2021
• In music, attenuation is comparable to damping a tone, which produces a lower volume, Deuss said.
  — Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 31 Jan. 2025
• Perpetuating a one-dimensional sort for footwear has done a disservice to the running community. Moving away from assessing pronation to talking about forces and levers and load attenuation can be overwhelming.
  — Jonathan Beverly, Outside Online, 5 Nov. 2020
• In each, the mood is of hedonistic distraction; the weird, dozy attenuation of modern life is masterfully distilled.
  — Mark Rozzo, Vanity Fair, 12 June 2026
• The ones that pass through collide with an imaging target to create what's known as an attenuation pattern—essentially an image of the interior of the sample.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 11 Jan. 2023
• The glass rings each rely on antiresonance—reflecting the signal wavelength back into the core to decrease signal attenuation and to confine light to the center.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Sep. 2025
• The slow, public killing of George Floyd gave the lie to Trump’s attenuation of American history to a tale of his own pain and glory.
  — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 12 June 2020
• Indoors, because of attenuation and scattering, GPS falls apart.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Nov. 2012
• Enough is Enough This level of attenuation leads to cynicism and disengagement, especially among the young.
  — Penny Abeywardena, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
• Wood said residential developments in those areas must include sound attenuation to reduce noise pollution.
  — Paulina Pineda, The Arizona Republic, 20 Nov. 2021
• Bond, in Higgs’ view, was Fleming’s response to the attenuation of England’s colonial might, its weakening global pulse.
  — Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2023
• Sound is muffled when passing through the skull, and the outgoing and return attenuations make a fully noninvasive ultrasound recording system untenable.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Nov. 2023
• Of course, what follows is the bulk of the movie, arguably longer (even accounting for some attenuation of the duration of events) than her own exaggerated number, and definitely not a handful of minutes.
  — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 23 June 2017
• But higher frequencies increase attenuation, power consumption, and heat.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 9 July 2026
• With Gauthier’s one witty exception, attenuation of limbs, subtle fluidity, and wild abandon are hallmarks.
  — Catherine Tharin, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2023
• The Wi-Fi proponents’ technical studies showed that attenuation from building walls would prevent interference.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 27 May 2022
• Basically, when attenuation fails, and self-perception becomes imprecise, the weighting of our perception is skewed towards self focus, and what was once taken for granted as ‘real’ and ‘present’ now feels detached and fractured.
  — Conor Feehly, Discover Magazine, 30 May 2022
• These drones also remain data bandwidth limited as radio frequency networking suffers from heavy attenuation in the undersea environment.
  — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 14 May 2026