How to Use electromagnetic in a Sentence

electromagnetic

adjective
  • Like the bracelet, the cord emits an electromagnetic field the company claims will keep sharks up to six feet away.
    Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 7 July 2023
  • The range can sense when a pan is on it and uses an electromagnetic field to zap heat into the metal.
    Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2021
  • The electromagnetic field in Berlin in 2018 is recorded in the porcelain.
    Alex Ronan, Vogue, 1 July 2018
  • The electromagnetic field that forms causes ions to flow from one grape half to the other via the connecting skin—at least at first.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 27 Dec. 2024
  • One of its predictions is that light is a smooth wave that moves through the electromagnetic field at a constant speed.
    Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 30 Oct. 2024
  • When the sun launches a strong flare toward Earth, the electromagnetic energy hits the planet at the speed of light.
    National Geographic, 18 Mar. 2019
  • Officers in one of the cars opened up the moonroof and shot it with an electromagnetic gun, disabling it.
    Alex Isenstadt, Axios, 9 Feb. 2025
  • The photon carries the electromagnetic force, which gives rise to light.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Just a slice of electromagnetic wavelength and sight is ours, a blindness gone at the end of traveling through our nights.
    Donna Kane, Scientific American, 21 June 2022
  • The conclusion was that, at very high energy levels, the electromagnetic and weak forces were one and the same.
    BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2021
  • An electromagnetic field allows a current to flow between the mat and the phone, charging the device.
    Alyssa Newcomb, NBC News, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Of all the electromagnetic waves in the universe, gamma rays have the smallest wavelengths and the most energy.
    Sam McNeil, Star Tribune, 21 May 2021
  • The corresponding force particles are called the W and Z bosons (for the weak force), gluons (for the strong force) and photons (for the electromagnetic force).
    Andreas Crivellin, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2022
  • The ions' electric charge means they can be contained in an electromagnetic trap that safeguard them, NASA said.
    Scottie Andrew, CNN, 28 Aug. 2019
  • And that really is just waves in the electromagnetic fields.
    Janna Levin, Quanta Magazine, 29 Aug. 2024
  • The signature piece of the MX Master 3 is its electromagnetic scroll wheel.
    Jeff Dunn, Ars Technica, 14 May 2020
  • The post is also wrong about electromagnetic fields playing a role.
    Isabella Fertel, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2023
  • On the way down the stairs, pressure from each footstep pushes down a moveable platform, compresses the springs and locks the tread in place with an electromagnetic lock.
    Kyle Frischkorn, Smithsonian, 12 July 2017
  • Will quantum computing enable the study of electromagnetic waves in a plasma?—is so much Greek to a layperson.
    Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
  • In the primordial fluid, dark matter felt the pull of gravity, but not the electromagnetic push from light rays.
    Quanta Magazine, 28 Jan. 2020
  • Okay, if particles can go through them, the fields can go as well—like the electromagnetic field and the gravitational field.
    Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 10 Oct. 2019
  • The electromagnetic field apparently refers to the high power line that can be seen in the photographs.
    Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY, 20 Aug. 2020
  • The electromagnetic locks on their buildings stopped working—locks meant to keep abusers out, meant to keep the 87 women and children living inside safe.
    Lorena O'Neil, Marie Claire, 22 Feb. 2021
  • The Higgs boson and the Higgs field are analogous to photons and the electromagnetic field.
    Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 24 June 2022
  • This paint turns the wall into a touchscreen and an electromagnetic sensor.
    Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 30 Apr. 2018
  • But all electromagnetic waves travel at the same speed—the speed of light at 300 million meters per second. Election Sale.
    Rhett Allain, Wired, 26 Sep. 2020
  • Physicists have traced three of the four forces of nature — the electromagnetic force and the strong and weak nuclear forces — to their origins in quantum particles.
    Quanta Magazine, 15 June 2020
  • When the electromagnetic situation is in flux like that, things tend to go a little haywire on the surface.
    Nicole Clausing, Sunset Magazine, 11 Oct. 2023
  • In the vacuum of space, radio waves and other forms of electromagnetic energy flash straight across the voids.
    Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 20 July 2019
  • This current in turn produces a weak electromagnetic signal that can be detected from space.
    Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 31 Jan. 2025

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