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
• With real-time payments, money moves at the speed of light—well, almost.
  — Nick Chandi, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
• 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
• Moving at close to the speed of light, the jet serves as an indicator of a supermassive black hole.
  — Samuel Sanders, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Sep. 2024
• Characters fight at the speed of light, jump incredible heights, and more.
  — Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 4 June 2024
• Both strike at the speed of light, but while the laser focuses its energy on a small spot, the microwave weapon can emit a broad fan with an area effect.
  — David Hambling, Forbes, 23 Sep. 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
• This creates jets of particles that travel at a substantial fraction of the speed of light.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 18 Sep. 2024
• Traveling at the speed of light, the song took almost 14 minutes to reach its destination.
  — James Factora, Them, 17 July 2024
• This decay would start in one place and then spread, a spherical bubble growing at the speed of light, transforming the universe.
  — Quanta Magazine, 22 July 2024
• 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
• To double the energy of the existing ring, the Tevatron would need to boost particles up to truly absurd speeds, like just a hair below the speed of light.
  — Samia Bouzid, Scientific American, 8 Aug. 2024
• 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
• Solar flares emit radiation, mostly in the form of ultraviolet light and X-rays, that can hurtle toward Earth at the speed of light.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024
• Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation that typically erupt from sunspots on the sun's surface and travel at the speed of light.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 28 Dec 2024