volume - use in sentences

Preposition: of

  • traffic: Reducing the volume of traffic on many busy routes.
  • essay: At the end of 2006 the seminar will be published as a collected volume of essays.

Converse of object

  • speak: Your words have spoken volumes to me about feelings I could not put into my words.
  • edit: The Ottomans in the Eighteenth Century ( 1999 ), ( edited volume ).
  • adjust: How do I adjust the volume of the audio?
  • bind: The Sunday Telegraph, December 7, 2003 This jolly little volume bound in astroturf is a useful guide to garden furnishings.
  • publish: The journal publishes a volume each year of review papers pertaining to the most recent research in the field.
  • handle: The challenge for the club was to install a product that could handle heavy volumes of high value transactions securely.

Adjective modifier

  • sheer: Not enough Mic's to mic it up = pointless due to sheer guitar volume.
  • bound: These are usually original bound volumes of Muster Records for a particular ship.
  • slim: Each chapter of this slim volume opens with the historical context of the religious debates current when the plays were written and performed.
  • large: Using the server to generate large volumes of email from a database is an example of activity that is not allowed.
  • total: Many people forget that in UK law 0.5 % of the total volume of gasoline sold in the UK can be leaded.
  • increased: In 1998 the partnership decided to design its own materials recycling facility to cope with the increased volume of textile materials donated.

Modifies a noun

  • V: Volume VI was published in November 2004 and Volume V will follow later in 2005.
  • knob: Volume is controlled via the glowing volume knob on the top of the subwoofer.
  • up/down: Back-lit extra buttons like play/pause, forward/back, and volume up/down let you control your media player with almost no effort.

Noun used with modifier

  • companion: He is now writing Cassell's Chronology of World History and its companion volume - A Short Guide to World history.
  • traffic: It left a law called quot greg tramontin shopped for traffic volume.
  • urine: The result of this is to decrease urine volume and increase the volume of extracellular fluid.

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