How to Use strobe in a Sentence

strobe

noun

• As Bieber dances and runs around the clearing, strobe lights flash in the trees around him.
  — Claire Shaffer, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2021
• There were strobe lights and bursts from a fog machine.
  — Alan G. Artner, chicagotribune.com, 4 June 2017
• Get some strobe lights out and start blaring this song.
  — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 22 June 2022
• An hour later, the first lightning bolt of the storm lit up the blackness like a strobe.
  — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Apr. 2018
• The misfire starts small: A few green and red strobes on Ramp 3 scream sideways.
  — Christopher Maag, Popular Mechanics, 1 July 2011
• The time scale of the shutter or the strobe must match the time scale of motion of the object – if not, the image will be blurred.
  — Niranjan Shivaram, The Conversation, 4 Oct. 2023
• These devices have strobe lights and are designed to float.
  — Outdoor Life, 24 Feb. 2021
• In another, strobe lights flash as a boy strips off a heavy mask.
  — Sophie Haigney, New York Times, 19 May 2021
• Dew Drops Coconut Gel Highlighter on the cheekbones and down the bridge of the nose for a light-catching strobe.
  — Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 16 Mar. 2021
• The sky darkened, and strobes of light coated the court building in purple.
  — Jamie Landers, Dallas News, 1 Sep. 2023
• Without all the strobes and lasers, the room shrank to the size of a dirty nightclub at last call, every blemish in plain view.
  — Dave Grohl, The Atlantic, 11 May 2020
• Someone in his house had a flashlight and was using it in strobe mode.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2021
• It is set up for strobe lights to give the pregame an extra jolt of excitement for the players.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 19 May 2022
• Some of the displays have flashing lights, but there are no strobe effects here.
  — Kayla Samoy, Chicago Tribune, 30 Nov. 2022
• In games at the World Deaf Championships, Krueger said strobe lights on the boards would go off when a whistle blew.
  — Bob Narang, chicagotribune.com, 23 May 2017
• Several shad thrash in the mesh, their large silver scales lighting up like strobes in the sun.
  — Corey Arnold, National Geographic, 27 Mar. 2019
• The curling arena darkened and strobe lights blotted the ice.
  — New York Times, 12 Feb. 2022
• This offers different modes, like steady in blue, flash in blue, strobe in red and blue, flash white, and more.
  — Chris Hachey, BGR, 8 Mar. 2021
• Strobes Resist the temptation to overuse strobe lights.
  — Kiona Smith-Strickland, Popular Mechanics, 15 Aug. 2017
• The strobe-like glare is similar to a lighthouse beam guiding ships in the distance.
  — Sharyn Alden, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 May 2018
• Switch on the optional strobe effects with the press of a button for some extra pizazz.
  — Popular Science, 3 Jan. 2020
• Molitor said divers plugged in flashlights, camera equipment, strobe lights and cellphones the night of the fire.
  — Stefanie Dazio and Tom Krisher, USA TODAY, 18 Sep. 2020
• Rapper Kevin Gates electrified the crowd as strobe lights pulsed.
  — USA Today, 2 Dec. 2021
• Up goes the volume to space shuttle levels, the strobe machines switch to double-time.
  — Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 25 July 2022
• For a more intense glow, layer it on top of M.A.C. strobe cream with a light fan brush to bring out the sun goddess within you.
  — Lara Adekola, Allure, 19 Oct. 2017
• With strobe lights flooding the venue, Lil Nas X was one of the first to stand and dance to the rap medley, showing his support to one of rap’s legends.
  — Mia Nazareno, Billboard, 13 Sep. 2021
• The fate of the Hermès store manager and his beau then played out amongst strobe lights and passed pomegranate wine spritzers.
  — Tara Gonzalez, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 Sep. 2022
• Even the bleakest Carnegie stories, by contrast, strobe with flashes of good will.
  — New York Times, 12 Dec. 2019
• Also, the show uses special effects such as fog, haze, strobes and black lights.
  — Don Maines, Houston Chronicle, 28 Jan. 2020
• No strobes nor bait were used to take this photograph, to cause as little a disturbance as possible.
  — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024