How to Use refract in a Sentence

refract

verb

• Light is refracted when it hits water.
• And sparkling crystal was used to refract light around the rooms.
  — Ingela Ratledge Amundson, WSJ, 21 June 2019
• Her gold dress refracts the light over the entire room like a disco ball.
  — Jason Sheeler, Peoplemag, 4 Dec. 2023
• This was strange; the cloud seemed too thin to host the large droplets required to refract light in this way.
  — Quanta Magazine, 20 Feb. 2026
• The song refracts like a prism at high noon, filled with stuttering blips that shapeshift at each turn.
  — Pitchfork, 5 Dec. 2024
• Inside the box, a thin sheet of light forced the laser to change directions, or refract.
  — Popular Science, 11 Aug. 2020
• That gives the air many more chances to refract the starlight, increasing twinkling.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 15 May 2025
• Light will reach the ruler from an object behind it, hit the lens system, and get refracted.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 25 Oct. 2019
• Its job is to bend or refract light to reach your retina, which then sends messages to your brain through the optic nerve.
  — Vanessa Caceres, Verywell Health, 11 Sep. 2024
• When struck by sunlight, the pillars’ glossy skins refract a full rainbow of metallic hues.
  — Washington Post, 18 June 2021
• When shallow bathymetry slows down a part of a wave, this causes the waves to refract.
  — Sally Warner, The Conversation, 3 Dec. 2020
• The moon itself glows dimly due to scattered and refracted light shining on it.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 19 Apr. 2018
• Moreover, the Earth’s atmosphere can refract, or bend, the sun’s light.
  — Justin Grieser, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2022
• So, pushing it down into the mineral oil, the light didn't refract or reflect off of the rod.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 2 Dec. 2022
• Their hands are shown refracted through a water glass, which will turn out to be an important symbol.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 27 Feb. 2018
• Each water droplet behaves like a small prism, refracting the light and reflecting it back to our eyes.
  — Megan Arnett, Scientific American, 26 Apr. 2018
• In some cases, the atmosphere can act like a prism, refracting colors out of a star’s light.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Sep. 2024
• Sunlight refracting from the glass creates a sense of depth and reflects light into the faceted walls of the shed.
  — Barbara Sadick, WSJ, 14 Apr. 2017
• Cold dense air, chilled by the frigid fjord water, had refracted light, bending it into a vision.
  — Longreads, 12 Mar. 2018
• The atmosphere refracts, or bends, the reddish light toward the moon, which reflects it with a red glow.
  — Carlie Procell, The Courier-Journal, 25 Jan. 2024
• The atmosphere refracts, or bends, the reddish light toward the moon, which reflects it with a red glow.
  — Janet Loehrke, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2024
• Sunlight refracted in pale sprays off the city’s glass, and water sluiced down drains and pipes, onto windowsills.
  — Scott Johnson, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 July 2023
• There are salads and rice bowls refracted through Fire & Spice's border-town thing too.
  — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 16 Sep. 2019
• The light refracted against the walls seems to thrum, resonant with voices of the water echoing on the cliffs.
  — Christopher Ketcham, Harper's magazine, 24 June 2019
• The major questions at the end of the season are all refracted through Robby.
  — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2026
• The only light that then shines on the moon is sunlight that is refracted through Earth’s atmosphere.
  — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 4 Mar. 2025
• They can be seen when light from the sun is refracted through water droplets in the air, creating a spectacle of color.
  — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 28 May 2024
• So lifting, the dynamic of lifting through asking how do things feel, refracted into the rest of my life.
  — Alyssa Bereznak, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2025
• The first telescopes were refracting telescopes that used a series of lenses to bend a larger amount of light toward the eye.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 18 May 2017
• The further that goes, the more the sound waves get refracted by pressure and temperature changes in the water.
  — WIRED, 20 June 2023