How to Use refraction in a Sentence

refraction

noun

• In the funhouse-mirror refractions of the pool, a woman’s body may be viewed in a new light.
  — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 3 July 2019
• Cromwell serves as the king’s alter ego, but that’s one refraction among many.
  — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2020
• In addition to the waves, many boaters fail to anticipate the refraction caused by the wake of the boats in front of them.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2021
• Then a physics lecture on light refraction brought an epiphany — and a change of majors.
  — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 25 Jan. 2024
• When white light enters an ice crystal, the light slows down and is bent through a process know as refraction.
  — Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2021
• Hirasawa explains that this allows the team to analyze the refraction of the X-rays to pick out the bone.
  — Connor Lynch, Discover Magazine, 20 June 2022
• The refraction of that bright star’s light by our atmosphere is one of the more esoteric sights in the skies above.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 30 May 2021
• The trick of the lensmaker’s art is to grind the two surfaces into such shapes that the sum of all this refraction brings the light passing through the lens to a focus.
  — The Economist, 25 July 2019
• The minerals in the rocks, plus refractions from the sun, create a range of colors under the water, from gold to deep blue.
  — Susan Glaser, cleveland.com, 9 May 2018
• The blueish color is due to much the same light refraction pattern as that which produces a blue daytime sky here on Earth.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 9 Nov. 2023
• Changes in the speed of sound (or for that matter light) cause sound (or light) waves to bend, a phenomenon known as refraction.
  — The Economist, 8 Mar. 2018
• The halos form because of refraction, or the bending of waves of light through ice crystals in the shape of hexagonal prisms.
  — Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2020
• Kids will use prisms, spray bottles, and bubbles to learn about refraction and make rainbows.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2023
• But, ice is less dense than water, and hail doesn’t tend to fall as thickly as rain, so its refraction of cell signal will be less, too.
  — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 20 May 2017
• In the shadow and the angle the light hits the Earth, a process called Rayleigh scattering occurs, which is basically the refraction of light.
  — Rick Green, courant.com, 19 Nov. 2021
• The nearly equal hours of daylight and darkness happens because of the refraction of sunlight or the bending of light's rays.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 1 May 2023
• Going to space softens the agonies of the here and now even when the space story is just a refraction of an earthly problem.
  — Lydia Kiesling, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2020
• Their eyes showed 59% less progression away from ideal refraction and 52% less growth of eye length.
  — Fortune, 12 Jan. 2022
• The change in the signals caused by refraction can be measured and used to derive humidity.
  — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, WSJ, 25 May 2021
• The rings are caused by refraction and reflection of sunlight by ice crystals in cirrus clouds.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 21 Sep. 2020
• Microwave refraction has been used to detect breast cancers, and Elam and Ljungqvist think it could be applied in still more areas.
  — Nathan Hurst, Smithsonian, 30 Mar. 2017
• Microwave refraction has been used to detect breast cancers, and Elam and Ljungqvist think it could be applied in still more areas.
  — Nathan Hurst, Smithsonian, 30 Mar. 2017
• Whatever the case, refraction in all its forms is slated to stay—simply choose whichever hue best suits your mood.
  — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 1 Oct. 2018
• The story that follows is a kind of Chaucerian refraction of the vicious military assault that shocked the world in 1989.
  — Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2021
• This light bending, or refraction, degrades the quality of the image, especially to the left and right of the scanner’s light source.
  — Scientific American, 6 Sep. 2019
• Their paths are affected by refraction, or the bending of waves, which increases when there is water vapor in the air.
  — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, WSJ, 25 May 2021
• The movie posits that each story wasn’t so much a plot drawn from O’Connor’s life as a sliver of light, dancing on a wall, a refraction of whatever vexed or amused or disgusted her in the world.
  — Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times, 11 May 2024
• Slowing a wave changes its direction, a process called refraction.
  — The Economist, 25 July 2019
• In certain situations, refraction can focus a huge amount of light on a small area, erasing the need for a giant structure to catch it all.
  — Leila Sloman, Scientific American, 14 Aug. 2019
• Due to the properties of refraction, these small particles can actually be drawn inward to the focal point of the laser.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 23 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024