How to Use black light in a Sentence

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• The documents said both sets of nails were viewed under an ultraviolet black light and both sets clearly had the luminescent varnish on them.
  — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 26 Mar. 2024
• Step 5: Test your black light box Turn the black light on, put a rock inside, and close it.
  — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2023
• Check out this schedule for black light mine tours in 2022.
  — Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Apr. 2022
• His ideas went well with paisley prints, black lights, and sitars.
  — Frederick Kaufman, Harper's Magazine, 22 Apr. 2024
• There, in a dark room bathed in black light, man-smelling, stale with sweat and cologne, a show was about to begin.
  — New York Times, 12 May 2022
• The groomers give glow-ups under a black light, and the judges must eliminate one team.
  — Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2021
• The device stamps a small image of a hand that can be seen under a black light.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 28 Aug. 2019
• See Fiona fairies, enjoy a black light puppet show and more.
  — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 3 Jan. 2023
• Use a black light to change up the look of the room and create fun, colorful changing lights.
  — Seventeen.com Editors, Seventeen, 1 Dec. 2022
• The best way to find a leak is with ultraviolet dye and a black light.
  — Motormouth Bob Weber, Star Tribune, 30 July 2021
• The group took the picture at the edge of a large white tent with a chandelier hanging on the top and behind a black light post.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 24 Nov. 2023
• The mechanism that can make Europa's ice glow is a bit like what's used by a black light poster.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 10 Nov. 2020
• To pull this off you’ll need black light bulbs, neon decorations and glow sticks of course.
  — Hannah Jeon, Good Housekeeping, 16 Nov. 2022
• Hearing it in 2006 was like throwing a black light on all the stale, rote elements of my own act.
  — John Roy, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2024
• After driving for a day or two, shine a black light and the leak will show up iridescent green.
  — Motormouth Bob Weber, Star Tribune, 30 July 2021
• The film’s candy collars begin to pull and blur, the scene acquiring the feel of a black light painting found in an ‘80s dorm room.
  — Ben Croll, Variety, 9 Mar. 2022
• Mouse urine fluoresces in UV light, so shining a black light around can show where the rodents pee.
  — Adam Hadhazy, Popular Mechanics, 9 Mar. 2021
• Also, the show uses special effects such as fog, haze, strobes and black lights.
  — Don Maines, Houston Chronicle, 28 Jan. 2020
• At the end of the pampering session, a black light revealed glow-in-the-dark fingernails and makeup.
  — Allison Bagley, Houston Chronicle, 24 Jan. 2018
• The details of Cynthia's glittery skull look only appear in the dark or under a black light.
  — Devon Abelman, Allure, 18 Oct. 2017
• The Jingle and North Star options include black light keychain chargers to make the putty glow.
  — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Dec. 2017
• Ruthie applied metallic Rub 'n Buff wax for golden accents on a mod all-black light.
  — Maria V. Charbonneaux, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Oct. 2022
• Lippert, blond and bespectacled, flipped on a black light.
  — Adlan Jackson, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
• Looking at pretty shapes on the iPhone X will be the next best thing to sitting in front of a lava lamp in real life (read: in a mall store that also sells black lights).
  — Heather Schwedel, Slate Magazine, 12 Sep. 2017
• The decor is Spartan, mostly some fluorescent paint and black lights.
  — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 Feb. 2024
• The decor is Spartan, mostly some fluorescent paint and black lights.
  — Rene Rodriguez, miamiherald, 5 May 2018
• There's a ton to do in this North Houston getaway, including 18 holes of indoor black light mini golf.
  — Vicki Salemi, Chron, 7 Oct. 2022
• Shortly after opening, Sky Zone Greenfield will offer glow evenings when the black lights will come on and shirts and balls will glow as kids and adults bounce to music.
  — Jane Ford-Stewart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 June 2018
• But the newest innovation is the smiley in the center, which only shows up under black light.
  — Fortune, 13 Jan. 2018
• Attendees will be given supplies to mix their own paint and create a black light painting.
  — Zipporah Osei, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024