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Yes, they can.
Normal sound waves (the curvy kind) are called sinusoidal, because when graphed, they use equations with the trigonometry function sine.
However, sound waves can also be triangular (pointed instead of normal curves), square (flattening at the top or bottom of the curve), or "sawblade" which is shaped like a saw blade.
You can listen to examples of each of these on the wikipedia page for "non-sinusoidal sound waves" which I don't have the link for not but its pretty easy to find.
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