How to Use halogen in a Sentence

halogen

noun
  • The purchase comes with a 35-watt halogen bulb, which helps to warm the candle and release its aroma.
    Alanna Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 May 2023
  • Also, never use your bare hands to change a halogen bulb.
    Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 14 June 2019
  • The room became so quiet that for the first time Chowdhury noticed the slight buzzing of the halogen light bulbs overhead.
    Elliot Ackerman, Wired, 26 Jan. 2021
  • The rig also comes equipped with heated hand grips, a halogen light, and drift cutters.
    Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 9 Sep. 2020
  • On Friday, the parking lot was packed and the interior of Frankie's was awash in neon and halogen.
    Alicia Wallace, CNN, 30 June 2021
  • Police checked the suspect’s car and found the halogen construction lights.
    Cathy Locke, sacbee, 31 Jan. 2018
  • The brand claims that the light consumes only 10 watts but that its output is equivalent to a 50-watt halogen bulb.
    Good Housekeeping, 28 Mar. 2023
  • It’s tens of thousands per leg, but there’s always the odd stuff, too: a tire, a net, a Styrofoam cooler, a halogen light.
    Christopher Clarey, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2017
  • The team placed voles in a darkened room that was fitted with halogen lights to mimic full and new moon light conditions.
    Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 4 Sep. 2019
  • Janssen said the owner was repairing a car when gasoline spilled near a halogen light, causing it to catch fire.
    David Harris, OrlandoSentinel.com, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Reggaeton plays through a set of speakers, drowning out the hum of the generator that powers them and the halogen lights near the grill.
    James Lynch, Popular Mechanics, 9 Feb. 2018
  • Heated hand grips, halogen lights, and drift cutters round out the standard features.
    Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 23 Oct. 2019
  • This comes with a 28-ounce bottle of cleaner that is safe for all radiant and halogen cooktops.
    Chris Hachey, BGR, 3 May 2021
  • The effect is to ban sales of standard incandescent bulbs, which produce 15 to 20 lumens per watt, and halogen bulbs, which are in the same range.
    Bob Egelko, SFChronicle.com, 15 Jan. 2020
  • Under the glow of a halogen dangling upon a fence stood the seven runners, about to amble off into the dark and return again.
    Devin Kelly, Longreads, 19 Jan. 2022
  • That will ban sales of standard incandescent bulbs, which produce 15 to 20 lumens per watt, and halogen bulbs, which are in the same range.
    Bob Egelko, SFChronicle.com, 31 Dec. 2019
  • Make the job easier by taking this baby out during the storm, and take advantage of the bright and wide halogen light on the front to work into the evening or predawn hours.
    Popular Science, 23 Jan. 2020
  • Typical halogen bulbs last in the neighborhood of 1,000 hours.
    Ray Magliozzi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2021
  • The maintenance guy installing new halogens in Katie B’s office?
    Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 21 Jan. 2020
  • For an outfit with very little use for chrome, Honda has a way with brightwork; note the crystal-like cuts of the mirrors within the halogen headlights.
    Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 15 June 2023
  • Researchers have instead been using halogen lights inside the lab.
    Leah Asmelash and Saeed Ahmed, CNN, 27 June 2019
  • Its lighting options include two LED bulbs for daytime cooking and a halogen light to serve as soft lighting at night.
    Brittany Vanderbill, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 May 2023
  • Roger steered his small aluminum boat through the lagoon while Aaron shone a powerful halogen spotlight on the water’s surface.
    Ngm Maps, National Geographic, 1 Aug. 2019
  • In fact, Norco is all these things including, more definitively, a video game haunted by the halogen blue of the oil industry.
    Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Outside, the city of Colombo was coming to a crawl of traffic lights and halogen, the shops winking out, one by one, as curfew regulations loomed.
    Yudhanjaya Wijeratne, Wired, 13 Nov. 2020
  • The first group, known as the alkali metals, has just one such electron, easy to lose when reacting with an element that has more electrons, such as one from the 17th group, the halogens.
    Bill Andrews, Discover Magazine, 26 June 2019
  • A single 600-watt halogen bulb hangs inside a huge steel cube into which intricate patterns have been cut.
    David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, 18 Aug. 2017
  • This reindeer yard decoration looks great in the daytime and the nighttime, thanks to the rustic-looking rattan construction and the 50 halogen bulbs that light up at night.
    Katie Melynn Published, Peoplemag, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The usual way is to place the baby under halogen spotlights or fluorescent lamps.
    Tolu Ajiboye, Verywell Health, 12 May 2023
  • Incandescent and halogen lightbulbs can be thrown away in your household trash.
    Washington Post, 6 July 2021

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