How to Use halogen in a Sentence

halogen

noun
  • Bob’s face split up in this major, bright halogen smile.
    Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The rig also comes equipped with heated hand grips, a halogen light, and drift cutters.
    Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Heated hand grips, halogen lights, and drift cutters round out the standard features.
    Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Police checked the suspect’s car and found the halogen construction lights.
    Cathy Locke, sacbee, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Researchers have instead been using halogen lights inside the lab.
    Leah Asmelash and Saeed Ahmed, CNN, 27 June 2019
  • Incandescent and halogen lightbulbs can be thrown away in your household trash.
    Washington Post, 6 July 2021
  • The purchase comes with a 35-watt halogen bulb, which helps to warm the candle and release its aroma.
    Alanna Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 May 2023
  • Choe explains that concentrations of hot vapor can build up if left next to halogen lamps or on warm surfaces.
    Louise Parks, Martha Stewart, 26 Feb. 2026
  • This comes with a 28-ounce bottle of cleaner that is safe for all radiant and halogen cooktops.
    Chris Hachey, BGR, 3 May 2021
  • The room became so quiet that for the first time Chowdhury noticed the slight buzzing of the halogen light bulbs overhead.
    Elliot Ackerman, Wired, 26 Jan. 2021
  • The usual way is to place the baby under halogen spotlights or fluorescent lamps.
    Tolu Ajiboye, Verywell Health, 12 May 2023
  • The maintenance guy installing new halogens in Katie B’s office?
    Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 21 Jan. 2020
  • On Friday, the parking lot was packed and the interior of Frankie's was awash in neon and halogen.
    Alicia Wallace, CNN, 30 June 2021
  • Under the glow of a halogen dangling upon a fence stood the seven runners, about to amble off into the dark and return again.
    Devin Kelly, Longreads, 19 Jan. 2022
  • Reggaeton plays through a set of speakers, drowning out the hum of the generator that powers them and the halogen lights near the grill.
    James Lynch, Popular Mechanics, 9 Feb. 2018
  • The brand claims that the light consumes only 10 watts but that its output is equivalent to a 50-watt halogen bulb.
    Good Housekeeping, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Roger steered his small aluminum boat through the lagoon while Aaron shone a powerful halogen spotlight on the water’s surface.
    Ngm Maps, National Geographic, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Typical halogen bulbs last in the neighborhood of 1,000 hours.
    Ray Magliozzi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2021
  • In fact, Norco is all these things including, more definitively, a video game haunted by the halogen blue of the oil industry.
    Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 24 Mar. 2022
  • The basement vibrated with the buzz of halogen work lights and air filters tethered to gasoline generators on the sidewalk.
    Justin Beal, Curbed, 11 Sep. 2021
  • For an outfit with very little use for chrome, Honda has a way with brightwork; note the crystal-like cuts of the mirrors within the halogen headlights.
    Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 15 June 2023
  • That will ban sales of standard incandescent bulbs, which produce 15 to 20 lumens per watt, and halogen bulbs, which are in the same range.
    Bob Egelko, SFChronicle.com, 31 Dec. 2019
  • Most candle or wax warmers use a heat bulb (most often a halogen bulb) or warming plate to slowly heat the wax evenly, producing fragrance without the smoky smell.
    Alyssa Gautieri, Good Housekeeping, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Outside, the city of Colombo was coming to a crawl of traffic lights and halogen, the shops winking out, one by one, as curfew regulations loomed.
    Yudhanjaya Wijeratne, Wired, 13 Nov. 2020
  • The effect is to ban sales of standard incandescent bulbs, which produce 15 to 20 lumens per watt, and halogen bulbs, which are in the same range.
    Bob Egelko, SFChronicle.com, 15 Jan. 2020
  • Other suggestions include light switches that glow in the dark, lighting over work areas in the kitchen, lights in places that might not already have them (like closets) and halogen bulbs to reduce glare.
    Phillip Molnar, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 Oct. 2017
  • In one cavernous room, chairs, barstools, halogen lamps, and storage units have been stacked atop one another, as if someone had been trying to erect a barricade—but who, or what, is being kept at bay?
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 31 May 2026
  • The first group, known as the alkali metals, has just one such electron, easy to lose when reacting with an element that has more electrons, such as one from the 17th group, the halogens.
    Bill Andrews, Discover Magazine, 26 June 2019
  • This reindeer yard decoration looks great in the daytime and the nighttime, thanks to the rustic-looking rattan construction and the 50 halogen bulbs that light up at night.
    Katie Melynn Published, Peoplemag, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Other bulbs that have been used to meet the requirements include the ubiquitous curly compact florescent, or CFL, bulbs and halogen lights.
    Ari Natter, Bloomberg.com, 27 July 2017

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