How to Use laser beam in a Sentence
laser beam
noun-
The missile rides a laser beam out to a range of five miles.
— David Axe, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023 -
After each win, a buzzer sounds and a 300-watt laser beam is launched.
— Bob Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Apr. 2023 -
Biden often had red laser beam eyes to counter Trump’s blue.
— Herb Scribner, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2022 -
Shining a laser beam into the resin, for instance, cures it along the entire laser path.
— Tracy H. Schloemer, IEEE Spectrum, 19 Sep. 2023 -
The researchers produced a new estimate of the age of the Argyle rocks using a laser beam that was finer than a hair’s width.
— Maya Wei-Haas, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2023 -
The orbiting craft also either fires a 10-megawatt laser beam at the retreating probe, or aligns a laser fired from the ground at it.
— Ramin Skibba, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2023 -
Life is good in the land of the laser beam, but head coach Mike Brown’s defensive wizardry isn’t always evident.
— Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Mar. 2023 -
The laser beam seems to be drifting away from the target area, reducing power delivered.
— IEEE Spectrum, 15 Mar. 2023 -
The two states of the ion correspond to two orientations of this magnet, say up and down, and they can be set by hitting the ion with a laser beam thinner than a human hair.
— Katherine Wright, Scientific American, 28 Sep. 2023 -
The Kornet system paints the tank with a laser beam, and the anti-tank missile homes in on the laser; the gunner merely has to keep the missile sight on target until the missile hits its target.
— Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 15 Apr. 2023 -
In the sixth, Chourio sent an absolute laser beam over the head of the left fielder for his second double of the day, rippling the sound of his patented loud contact throughout the stadium.
— Journal Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2023 -
In that case, the crests and troughs of the laser beam waves will meet in the measuring device in a staggered manner, producing a different intensity.
— Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 24 Apr. 2023 -
Laser treatment: This treatment uses a laser beam to heat and damage the plantar wart.6 Before using the laser beam, a podiatrist will numb the affected area with a shot.
— Susan Brickell, Health, 7 Mar. 2023 -
The Global Surveyor carried an altimeter instrument that bounced a laser beam off the surface.
— Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2023 -
With the technique, the scientists were able to take samples from a tiny sliver of one of the crystals and use a laser beam to evaporate the atoms one by one and identify them, ruling out that the lead atoms had clustered within the crystal.
— Carolyn Y. Johnson, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2023 -
An experiment with a laser beam suggests this is possible.
— Sabrina Weiss, WIRED, 31 Dec. 2023 -
After analyzing Argyle’s rocks and minerals with a laser beam smaller than the width of a human hair, a team of researchers has reached a new understanding of what happened at the site.
— Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Sep. 2023 -
Because the laser beam is narrow, it must be pointed toward receivers on Earth with high accuracy, a challenge that only grows with distance.
— John Johnson Jr., Discover Magazine, 27 Nov. 2023 -
Too often, business success stories present journeys of people with ideal backgrounds, the right credentials, and laser beam focus on a singular mission.
— Ebony Flake, Essence, 19 Jan. 2024 -
Aiming a laser beam across thousands of kilometers, between satellites moving at thousands of kilometers per hour in different directions, is no mean feat.
— IEEE Spectrum, 18 Dec. 2023 -
This technique involves evaporating individual atoms from one of the zircon crystals with a laser beam and identifying them, per the Washington Post.
— Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2023 -
One laser beam firing sporadically became six beams firing 365 days a year; higher-precision digital photon counting replaced analog detection of beams bouncing back from Earth.
— IEEE Spectrum, 24 Mar. 2017
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