How to Use diffract in a Sentence

diffract

verb

• This structure can diffract light and degrade image quality.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 14 Jan. 2026
• This, in turn, changes the way the material diffracts the stroboscopic bright-field electron stream, revealing the phonon’s progress.
  — Douglas McCormick, IEEE Spectrum, 19 Apr. 2016
• For example, a diffractive optical neural network is composed of a stack of layers, each possessing thousands of pixels that can diffract, or scatter, light.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Jan. 2023
• But whereas radio waves can transmit data via omnidirectional broadcasts, higher frequency waves diffract less, so communications links involving them employ narrow beams.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Apr. 2020
• Instead, the Sun’s light will diffract around the edge of the coronagraphic disk, as light’s dual (including wave-like) nature ensures that instead of just a dark shadow, the Sun’s light will produce a series of rings, a result of interference and diffraction.
  — Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 5 Aug. 2025