How to Use electric field in a Sentence

electric field

noun

• Then, the electric field is turned off and the stack cools down.
  — Chris Baraniuk, WIRED, 16 July 2024
• And could this boost the electric field enough to produce lightning?
  — Quanta Magazine, 6 May 2026
• Its job is purely to impose a strong electric field across the air gap and the frost.
  — Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 30 Dec. 2025
• The cloud’s electric field would push the positron backward close to where the avalanche began.
  — Quanta Magazine, 6 May 2026
• The Tesla coil creates an electric field which then lights up the bulbs.
  — Rollin Bishop, Popular Mechanics, 3 Aug. 2015
• Meanwhile, the electric field also propels a flow of ions across the nanopore.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Oct. 2025
• When laser light hits a metal, the electrons, which are free to move around, chase the light's electric field.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2018
• The friction that builds up in storm clouds gives rise to an electric field extending to the ground.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 20 Aug. 2020
• In stormy weather, this electric field can reach thousands of volts per meter above the ground.
  — Renae Reints, Fortune, 6 July 2018
• This alters the way its electric field is distributed.
  — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025
• The other method is to heat up a material in an electric field.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 28 Jan. 2022
• The electric field makes the molecule stretch and contract.
  — Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
• This creates an electric field that grows until a gigantic spark jumps across the sky.
  — Thomas Lewton, Quanta Magazine, 20 Dec. 2021
• The silver and zinc then generate a weak electric field that zaps pathogens on the surface.
  — Rachel Crowell, Scientific American, 24 June 2020
• The spark resulted from the kite/key system being in a strong electric field.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 23 May 2023
• An electric field then accelerates them and routes them out the back of the spacecraft.
  — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 29 July 2019
• Then an electric field sort of forces those protons through a proton exchange membrane.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 4 Oct. 2023
• Both of these can be accomplished by applying a strong electric field.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 14 Sep. 2017
• Once the spiders were ballooning in the air, researchers turned the electric field off.
  — Lilly Price, USA TODAY, 6 July 2018
• When the hydrogel forms, the mixture is exposed to an electric field.
  — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 19 Oct. 2025
• When exposed to an electric field, the structures begin moving on their own.
  — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 27 Mar. 2026
• Instead of melting frost away, their new method uses electric fields to pull it off cold surfaces.
  — Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 30 Dec. 2025
• In the wild, electric eels generate an electric field in the water.
  — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 16 Aug. 2026
• These electrons all create electric fields that push on the other electrons.
  — WIRED, 27 Oct. 2023
• The researchers arranged a set of electrodes to recreate that electric field.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 11 Dec. 2018
• The researchers apply that field using a very bright laser, which works because light has an electric field.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 1 June 2019
• Much as an electric field can overwhelm the weak force of gravity, so, too, can the warmth of a lonely atom.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 27 Sep. 2023
• The material changes shape when exposed to an electric field.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 28 July 2026
• Some spiders actually managed to take off, but dropped as soon as the electric field was cut.
  — Renae Reints, Fortune, 6 July 2018
• This can be done by applying a very large electric field to the semiconductor.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 1 June 2019