How to Use speed of light in a Sentence

speed of light

noun phrase

• No – the distance is rate (speed of light) times time (a year).
  — Danya Gainor, CNN, 31 Mar. 2023
• Jimmy had one gear: moving at the speed of light, even in flip-flops.
  — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 3 Sep. 2023
• The stray electrons zip around Jupiter near the speed of light and release radio waves.
  — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 May 2024
• In a world where biology moves at the speed of light, those risks can get out of hand.
  — Michael Specter, STAT, 6 Apr. 2023
• That’s in quotes because, aside from the speed of light, nothing is faster than this kind of photo shoot.
  — Denise Snodell, Kansas City Star, 10 July 2024
• Soon the electrons are traveling at nearly the speed of light.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 14 May 2024
• But there is an unbreakable speed limit, the speed of light, which looks the same to everyone.
  — Jennifer Ouellette and Sean M. Carroll, Ars Technica, 24 Nov. 2023
• Particles from a solar flare can travel at the speed of light and reach Earth in minutes.
  — John Tufts, The Courier-Journal, 10 May 2024
• The author of this piece states that the speed of light is sixty-five miles per hour, and fifty-five miles per hour at night or in inclement weather.
  — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
• Or maybe: Kelsea Ballerini’s boyfriend, Chase Stokes, ran on stage faster than the speed of light and helpfully removed the white frock for her.
  — Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 13 Sep. 2023
• Modern finance, where money can move around the world with the speed of light, makes the world seem like an increasingly small place.
  — Henry M. Paulson Jr., Foreign Affairs, 26 Jan. 2023
• But there was another killing energy released by those fires that moved even faster—at the speed of light.
  — John Vaillant, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 June 2023
• Characters fight at the speed of light, jump incredible heights, and more.
  — Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 4 June 2024
• As the camera reaches the speed of light, the accretion disc becomes more distorted as space-time warps.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 7 May 2024
• And the fact that signals must travel no faster than the speed of light means that now only applies to observers close to one another.
  — Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 7 July 2023
• These filaments appear to be composed of huge amounts of cosmic ray electrons moving at close to the speed of light.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 7 June 2023
• Another way that SMBHs announce their presence is via jets, narrow beams of ionized gas fired out from the black hole’s poles at close to the speed of light.
  — science.org, 25 Apr. 2023
• Particles can move through those substances quicker than that (though not faster than speed of light in a vacuum).
  — Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 29 June 2023
• Everything, including us, drifts through spacetime and at the speed of light, even though the space bit and the time bit are unevenly distributed.
  — WIRED, 27 Sep. 2023
• And since causality determines our sense of the flow of time, here’s another way to look at this: The speed of light is also the speed of time, and therefore the limit to causality.
  — Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 30 June 2023
• So in fact, correlations caused by quantum entanglement cannot be used to send signals faster than the speed of light.
  — Juan Maldacena, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2016
• At a certain distance, roughly 14 billion light-years away, galaxies appear to be moving away from us faster than the speed of light.
  — Popular Mechanics, 8 Sep. 2023
• Inside these devices, particles can collide at nearly the speed of light.
  — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 19 Aug. 2023
• But Witherspoon’s team clearly doesn’t play around with this type of thing, once again moving at the speed of light to publicly deny the rumors in a Page Six exclusive.
  — Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 10 Nov. 2023
• Those can race away from us at the speed of light, meaning that a broadcast transmitted from Earth could reach the Proxima Centauri system in just over four years.
  — Popular Mechanics, 8 Sep. 2023
• But instead of falling into a black hole, sometimes particles are jettisoned near the speed of light from the black hole’s polar regions.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 1 May 2023
• Through Einstein’s famous E = mc2 equation—energy equals mass times the square of the speed of light—that difference in mass results in a release of energy.
  — Popular Mechanics, 18 Apr. 2023
• The key that opened Menzel's door turned out to be this strong stellar wind, streaming at several thousand kilometers per second—around 1 percent the speed of light.
  — Peter Tuthill, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2023
• Directed energy weapons—like high-energy #lasers—could be used to disrupt or destroy targets at the speed of light.
  — Alain Sherter, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2023
• In less than a second, the entire star turns itself inside out, sending out a shockwave of its own material, racing away at nearly the speed of light.
  — Popular Mechanics, 18 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 16 Sep 2024