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sound bite
noun
a brief, striking remark or statement excerpted from an audiotape or videotape for insertion in a broadcast news story.
sound bite
noun
a short pithy sentence or phrase extracted from a longer speech for use on radio or television
Word History and Origins
Origin of sound bite1
Idioms and Phrases
Example Sentences
Twenty-three years of a smug, smarmy host, and a bunch of sportswriters desperate for sound bites and attention.
The experience is the opposite of what one feels by the image glut and sound bites of modern life, the psychologically destabilizing ether of digital distractions that can oppress the soul.
One Tasmanian doctor tells the BBC it is just a "good election sound bite".
“It was a last-minute pointed request meant to not generate a meeting, and then use it as a media sound bite,” Hamby said.
“He blocks out the sun against any of his critics. He controls the media cycle with one click on his phone, with one sound bite every single day.”
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