white-noise machine
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.36 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "Michel said she has overcome the hum by “investing in a wide array of earplugs” and by using a white-noise machine that provides a more soothing sound to drown out the annoying buzz."
- "The first so-called domestic white-noise machine may have been built in 1962, by a traveling salesman whose wife grew used to the air-conditioners in the motels they frequented and was unable to sleep at home."
- "By the time my daughter arrived, I had collected a small armoury of tools for the battle against her anticipated wakefulness. Swaddles, blackout blinds, a white-noise machine; for months after she was born, I used apps to obsessively track her “wake windows” and sleep totals to the minute, determined to crack the code for a good night’s sleep."