How to Use refract in a Sentence

refract

verb

• Light is refracted when it hits water.
• And sparkling crystal was used to refract light around the rooms.
  — Ingela Ratledge Amundson, WSJ, 21 June 2019
• The faceted shape refracts the light in a dazzling manner.
  — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 4 June 2019
• Her gold dress refracts the light over the entire room like a disco ball.
  — Jason Sheeler, Peoplemag, 4 Dec. 2023
• Inside the box, a thin sheet of light forced the laser to change directions, or refract.
  — Popular Science, 11 Aug. 2020
• The movie outperforms the book by a long, refracted mile.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 27 Feb. 2018
• Sunlight refracting from the glass creates a sense of depth and reflects light into the faceted walls of the shed.
  — Barbara Sadick, WSJ, 14 Apr. 2017
• Moreover, the Earth’s atmosphere can refract, or bend, the sun’s light.
  — Justin Grieser, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2022
• The light refracted against the walls seems to thrum, resonant with voices of the water echoing on the cliffs.
  — Christopher Ketcham, Harper's magazine, 24 June 2019
• Light will reach the ruler from an object behind it, hit the lens system, and get refracted.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 25 Oct. 2019
• So, pushing it down into the mineral oil, the light didn't refract or reflect off of the rod.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 2 Dec. 2022
• The atmosphere refracts, or bends, the reddish light toward the moon, which reflects it with a red glow.
  — Carlie Procell, The Courier-Journal, 25 Jan. 2024
• The rain splintered on the ground and refracted off the bulbs adorning the trees and bushes around us, casting sparkling light that guided us through the dark paths.
  — Helen Carefoot, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2023
• The pencil crystals refract the light to produce a ring 22 degrees away from the moon in all directions.
  — Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 29 Mar. 2013
• When struck by sunlight, the pillars’ glossy skins refract a full rainbow of metallic hues.
  — Washington Post, 18 June 2021
• When shallow bathymetry slows down a part of a wave, this causes the waves to refract.
  — Sally Warner, The Conversation, 3 Dec. 2020
• The further that goes, the more the sound waves get refracted by pressure and temperature changes in the water.
  — WIRED, 20 June 2023
• Each water droplet behaves like a small prism, refracting the light and reflecting it back to our eyes.
  — Megan Arnett, Scientific American, 26 Apr. 2018
• There are salads and rice bowls refracted through Fire & Spice's border-town thing too.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 16 Sep. 2019
• In the case of a lunar eclipse, the sunlight that makes it around Earth passes through our atmosphere and is refracted toward the moon.
  — Shannon Schmoll, Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2018
• Sunlight refracted in pale sprays off the city’s glass, and water sluiced down drains and pipes, onto windowsills.
  — Scott Johnson, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 July 2023
• The first telescopes were refracting telescopes that used a series of lenses to bend a larger amount of light toward the eye.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 18 May 2017
• Swift is too smart of a songwriter to have her risks blow up in her face, so even the clunkiest moments on the album are still refracted through the lens of a pro.
  — Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 10 Nov. 2017
• The Fold display looked kinda foggy, dull, and washed out thanks, in part, to the flexible plastic refracting some of the light from the panel.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 28 Feb. 2020
• The cornea refracts light, and depending on a person’s eye shape, the way the light is refracted can cause blurriness.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 1 Apr. 2023
• The moon itself glows dimly due to scattered and refracted light shining on it.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 19 Apr. 2018
• The filmmakers set Franklin up in a posh chair in front of a big window with drawn shades refracting translucent skyline.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 22 Apr. 2023
• Cold dense air, chilled by the frigid fjord water, had refracted light, bending it into a vision.
  — Longreads, 12 Mar. 2018
• The dry air cramps stormy weather, and carries particles that refract brilliant orange and red hues as the sun rises and sets.
  — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 18 July 2024
• Across the ever shifting sphere: the effects of fog slowly subsuming a hillside, the sun stirring between the sea and sky, and ribbons of light refracting through shallow pools at low tide.
  — Tara Anne Dalbow, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024