Below you will find example sentences with "shock wave". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Shock Wave in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: shock
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 12
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 26 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 5 start, 9 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "shock wave" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 26 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as by the shock wave, a second shock wave the reverse, impact, vehicle and bore stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with first wave, plane wave and standing wave, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with shock wave
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
Shock wave through liquid metal filled steel tube. (8 words)
Seismic waves main Shock waves Formation of a shock wave by a plane. (13 words)
A second shock wave, the reverse shock, may propagate back into the ejected matter. (14 words)
The Severn bore is not a self-reinforcing solitary wave or soliton but rather a shock wave which is formed because the wave is travelling faster than the wave speed in water above the Bore (see tidal bore for more details). (41 words)
Many other shock-related changes take place within both impactor and target as the shock wave passes through, and some of these changes can be used as diagnostic tools to determine whether particular geological features were produced by impact cratering. (40 words)
In the film, Nolan recreates the intensity of the Trinity test with color and sound, following the bright flash with a pause and then the deep rumble and roar of the explosion and the clap of the shock wave. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
The Severn bore is not a self-reinforcing solitary wave or soliton but rather a shock wave which is formed because the wave is travelling faster than the wave speed in water above the Bore (see tidal bore for more details).
As well as being heated, the target near the impact is accelerated by the shock wave, and it continues moving away from the impact behind the decaying shock wave.
The distance from the shock wave to the stagnation point on the entry vehicle's leading edge is called shock wave stand off.
The former ejection of matter in the outer shock wave and the latter production of antimatter in the reverse shock wave are steps in a space weather cycle.
A second shock wave, the reverse shock, may propagate back into the ejected matter.
At high enough Mach numbers the temperature increases so much over the shock that ionization and dissociation of gas molecules behind the shock wave begin.
For this case, most of the shock layer between the shock wave and leading edge of an entry vehicle is chemically reacting and not in a state of equilibrium.
If the reentry vehicle is made blunt, air cannot "get out of the way" quickly enough, and acts as an air cushion to push the shock wave and heated shock layer forward (away from the vehicle).
Many other shock-related changes take place within both impactor and target as the shock wave passes through, and some of these changes can be used as diagnostic tools to determine whether particular geological features were produced by impact cratering.
Seismic waves main Shock waves Formation of a shock wave by a plane.
In the film, Nolan recreates the intensity of the Trinity test with color and sound, following the bright flash with a pause and then the deep rumble and roar of the explosion and the clap of the shock wave.
Combining that information with shock wave models, they estimated the resulting crater to be anywhere from 3 to 32 kilometers wide, depending on the impact angle.
The killing of a 16-year-old, shot as he was leaving a party, should've sent a "shock wave" through the community.
What is new, however, is that these bursts of electrons are appearing far ahead of the advancing shock wave, and that it’s happening in a supposedly quiet region of space.
When the restaurants shuttered, a shock wave rippled out from owners and managers to servers, bartenders, dishwashers and cooks.
Shock Wave’s fish was caught on a live bait and subdued after a 4.5-hour battle on 100-pound test monofilament with a 200-pound test leader.
Shock wave through liquid metal filled steel tube.
The most significant impact of the past century happened in 2013 when a meteor impacted the atmosphere over Russia, creating a shock wave that shattered thousands of windows.
Vortices -- the dynamic structures created in a turbulent flow --are affected by the shock wave.
According to their results, the comet matter dispersed in the atmosphere, while the destruction of the forest was caused by the shock wave.