How to Use electromagnet in a Sentence

electromagnet

noun

• The inner band is fixed to the hub and consists of electromagnets.
  — WIRED, 3 Oct. 2023
• On older screens, an electromagnet would bend the waves across the screen.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 11 July 2017
• Pulses of power to the electromagnets create push and pull between the two bands and make the wheel spin.
  — WIRED, 3 Oct. 2023
• The large electromagnet was ramped to a field strength of 20 tesla—a world record for a fusion magnet.
  — Melanie Windridge, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2022
• Building a parts bin bike is like passing an electromagnet over a scrap heap.
  — Eben Weiss, Outside Online, 24 Nov. 2022
• The electromagnet causes the muons to wobble like toy tops losing their balance.
  — William Herkewitz, Popular Mechanics, 7 Apr. 2021
• What does 10 billion volts even mean for an electromagnet?
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 31 Dec. 2021
• Brookhaven lacked the power to make a more accurate measurement, and so the electromagnet and the researchers who ran the experiment have been waiting more than a decade to give it another try.
  — William Herkewitz, Popular Mechanics, 7 Apr. 2021
• That saves a lot of energy from being lost and also makes for powerful electromagnets.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 10 Aug. 2023
• The new version moved its pieces by way of electromagnets concealed below an ordinary chessboard.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 June 2023
• When one of the magnets (either the electromagnet or the permanent magnet) is attached to a thin membrane the rapidly changing magnetic field makes the membrane vibrate.
  — Ben Finio, Scientific American, 5 Dec. 2019
• Resistive magnets are a type of electromagnet used for research.
  — Gary Fineout, The Seattle Times, 22 Aug. 2017
• The Muon g-2 experiment that the electromagnet is part of has begun its search for phantom particles, lab officials said.
  — Aurora Beacon-News, 2 June 2017
• Made from a solid piece of steel, this element is different mice because the wheel is controlled by electromagnets installed inside.
  — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2019
• An ordinary doorbell closes a circuit that activates an electromagnet, which moves a piston to sound a bell.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2017
• The connection sent electricity through these wires to a remote electromagnet, which then attracted a metal strip that made a clicking sound.
  — Larry Kahaner, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2023
• The other interesting thing in a toaster is an electromagnet.
  — National Geographic, 8 Jan. 2017
• The most crucial of these was a pair of counterwound superconducting electromagnets, called a bucking coil, that would cancel out the magnetic field created by the main coil.
  — Rachel Courtland, IEEE Spectrum, 1 May 2014
• The devices use an electromagnet to excite a phosphor coating, which creates visible light.
  — Andy Rosen, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• Each of its qubits is a superconducting electric loop that acts as a tiny electromagnet oriented up, down, or up and down — a superposition.
  — Quanta Magazine, 29 Jan. 2018
• Real recycling plants have moving conveyor belts and powerful electromagnets that can be turned on and off.
  — Ben Finio, Scientific American, 12 Mar. 2020
• Plasma is electrically charged and so can hold a magnetic field, not unlike an electromagnet.
  — Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 11 Aug. 2013
• The power brick also seems to hum when the electromagnets activate, which is not comforting — and surprisingly not an issue unique to this floating product, either.
  — Jacob Kastrenakes, The Verge, 12 Apr. 2018
• An electromagnet overhead lifts the steel rotor off its bearings, which allows it to spin quickly without requiring a lot of electricity.
  — Cassandra Sweet, WSJ, 21 May 2017
• The computer that controls this electromagnet now looks at speed and lateral acceleration to provide a more stable, progressive feel at the steering-wheel rim.
  — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 7 Sep. 2023
• Her shelves hold a Ghostbustery electromagnet-field reader, a perfectly round stone supposedly containing the spirit of an ancient sprite and a pair of wooden sculptures, one of Bigfoot, one of an upright canine.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 24 July 2019
• An electromagnet, for example, might cause a change of energy in an electromagnetic field.
  — Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2023
• These tiny bots are controlled by precise magnetic fields generated by an array of electromagnets.
  — NBC News, 30 Mar. 2018
• For the first time, scientists used a superconducting electromagnet to create a field strength of 20 teslas—the most powerful magnetic field ever created on Earth.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 27 Oct. 2021
• In 1832, after a painting trip to Europe, Morse returned home by ship, stumbling into a conversation with passengers about Michael Faraday’s electromagnet.
  — Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 24 May 2017

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024