ADJECTIVE
- being without sound through injury or illness and thus incapable of all but whispered speech
How To Use aphonic In A Sentence
- So, we've been pretty much surrounded by quadraphonic icefall throughout the course of the night.
- With its ripping three-chord chorus riff, "Worried Worried" is a prepunk classic, while "Oyster Thins" starts with a dodecaphonic guitar/vocal line that segues into a bluesy march, replete with brushes on snare drum. Chicago Reader
- A 35-year-old woman who complained of having lost her voice several weeks previously was answering all questions put to her in an aphonic whisper.
- I recall that at one time we were told we * needed* quadraphonic sound. Original Signal - Transmitting Gadgets
- The liner notes make a big deal of the fact that some of the music of the finale follows dodecaphonic practice.
- I even remember standing in a music store in the Twin Cities in about 1970 listening to “Whole Lotta Love” from Led Zeppelin II [1] speed around me on the latest technological breakthrough, quadraphonic stereo. A Progressive on the Prairie » Midweek Music Moment: No Quarter: Jimmy Page & Robert Plant Unledded » Print
- Dan Neil/The Wall Street Journal The Xplore Wrangler certainly feels authentic on the highway, with quadraphonic tire roar blasting from the BFGs' deep treads and a serious lack of top speed, thanks to the vehicle's aerodynamics. Off-Roading With a Tent
- Inside the heard voices is an unheard voice, an aphonic voice, as it were.
- Last winter, I dragged Chris to see Wozzeck, a modern German opera that, while not atonal and only occasionally dodecaphonic, sounds dissonant and strange. One thing about LiveJournal that annoys me.
- All very shamanic, I'm sure (and also rather quadraphonic, for that matter).