How to Use refraction in a Sentence

refraction

noun

• Cromwell serves as the king’s alter ego, but that’s one refraction among many.
  — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2020
• Then a physics lecture on light refraction brought an epiphany — and a change of majors.
  — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 25 Jan. 2024
• When white light enters an ice crystal, the light slows down and is bent through a process know as refraction.
  — Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2021
• In the hot terror of every day, refraction is a dream to fall into.
  — Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026
• In the funhouse-mirror refractions of the pool, a woman’s body may be viewed in a new light.
  — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 3 July 2019
• Kids will use prisms, spray bottles, and bubbles to learn about refraction and make rainbows.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2023
• This skid, or refraction, occurs because water is denser than air.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 22 Apr. 2019
• Slowing a wave changes its direction, a process called refraction.
  — The Economist, 25 July 2019
• The beams of electrons would travel in straight lines like a beam of light following the laws of refraction.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 4 Oct. 2016
• But, ice is less dense than water, and hail doesn’t tend to fall as thickly as rain, so its refraction of cell signal will be less, too.
  — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 20 May 2017
• The rings are caused by refraction and reflection of sunlight by ice crystals in cirrus clouds.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 21 Sep. 2020
• The refraction of that bright star’s light by our atmosphere is one of the more esoteric sights in the skies above.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 30 May 2021
• Changes in the speed of sound (or for that matter light) cause sound (or light) waves to bend, a phenomenon known as refraction.
  — The Economist, 8 Mar. 2018
• In addition to the waves, many boaters fail to anticipate the refraction caused by the wake of the boats in front of them.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2021
• Whatever the case, refraction in all its forms is slated to stay—simply choose whichever hue best suits your mood.
  — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 1 Oct. 2018
• The main business happened in reflections and refractions of light.
  — Kovie Biakolo, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 May 2024
• The blueish color is due to much the same light refraction pattern as that which produces a blue daytime sky here on Earth.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 9 Nov. 2023
• One of the challenges with this approach, Lake said, is making this light refraction work with curved lenses.
  — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 23 Oct. 2018
• The change in the signals caused by refraction can be measured and used to derive humidity.
  — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, WSJ, 25 May 2021
• The halos form because of refraction, or the bending of waves of light through ice crystals in the shape of hexagonal prisms.
  — Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2020
• The minerals in the rocks, plus refractions from the sun, create a range of colors under the water, from gold to deep blue.
  — Susan Glaser, cleveland.com, 9 May 2018
• Going to space softens the agonies of the here and now even when the space story is just a refraction of an earthly problem.
  — Lydia Kiesling, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2020
• Their eyes showed 59% less progression away from ideal refraction and 52% less growth of eye length.
  — Fortune, 12 Jan. 2022
• Dozens of feelings, dozens of experiences, dozens of refractions.
  — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 17 July 2026
• Their paths are affected by refraction, or the bending of waves, which increases when there is water vapor in the air.
  — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, WSJ, 25 May 2021
• Hirasawa explains that this allows the team to analyze the refraction of the X-rays to pick out the bone.
  — Connor Lynch, Discover Magazine, 20 June 2022
• The nearly equal hours of daylight and darkness happens because of the refraction of sunlight or the bending of light's rays.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 1 May 2023
• Samsung’s nano-prisms use diffraction, rather than refraction, to bend the angle of incoming light.
  — Gwendolyn Rak, IEEE Spectrum, 13 Dec. 2023
• The trick of the lensmaker’s art is to grind the two surfaces into such shapes that the sum of all this refraction brings the light passing through the lens to a focus.
  — The Economist, 25 July 2019
• The refraction of sunlight usually makes the sun appear flatter or more oval on the horizon during sunsets.
  — Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010