How to Use speed of light in a Sentence

speed of light

noun phrase

• That’s more than 1 percent of the speed of light!
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 11 Sep. 2025
• No – the distance is rate (speed of light) times time (a year).
  — Danya Gainor, CNN, 31 Mar. 2023
• Think about it – all of this has happened at roughly the speed of light.
  — John Werner, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
• And at the speed of light, at the top of the meter, there’s no space for time in there.
  — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 18 Apr. 2026
• At the speed of light, a trillion of them passed through those near the bomb’s hypocenter.
  — R. Daniel Foster, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
• Does this mean that the speed of gravity and the speed of light aren’t quite equal, then?
  — Big Think, 13 Nov. 2025
• This includes the speed of light and Planck’s constant.
  — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 17 Nov. 2025
• In a world where biology moves at the speed of light, those risks can get out of hand.
  — Michael Specter, STAT, 6 Apr. 2023
• What kids are saying these days seems to move faster than the speed of light thanks to social media.
  — Greta Cross, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2025
• That’s in quotes because, aside from the speed of light, nothing is faster than this kind of photo shoot.
  — Denise Snodell, Kansas City Star, 10 July 2024
• Soon the electrons are traveling at nearly the speed of light.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 14 May 2024
• There’s no way that an object, any object, can move through space at speeds that exceed the speed of light.
  — Big Think, 1 May 2026
• The stray electrons zip around Jupiter near the speed of light and release radio waves.
  — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 May 2024
• With real-time payments, money moves at the speed of light—well, almost.
  — Nick Chandi, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
• Screen shots of photos or text messages can be circulated faster than the speed of light.
  — Ruth Oh Reitmeier, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
• The particles travel at nearly the speed of light through the cosmos.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 Feb. 2025
• Solar flares travel at the speed of light, reaching Earth in eight minutes.
  — Stephen Ornes, Discover Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
• But there is an unbreakable speed limit, the speed of light, which looks the same to everyone.
  — Jennifer Ouellette and Sean M. Carroll, Ars Technica, 24 Nov. 2023
• But there was another killing energy released by those fires that moved even faster—at the speed of light.
  — John Vaillant, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 June 2023
• Characters fight at the speed of light, jump incredible heights, and more.
  — Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 15 Jan. 2025
• Characters fight at the speed of light, jump incredible heights, and more.
  — Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 15 Jan. 2025
• Potentially, those speeds could approach, reach, or even exceed the speed of light!
  — Big Think, 1 May 2026
• There is the speed of sound, the speed of light and, in a whole other category, the speed of Zara.
  — Samantha Conti, WWD, 16 Dec. 2024
• Particles from a solar flare can travel at the speed of light and reach Earth in minutes.
  — John Tufts, The Courier-Journal, 10 May 2024
• Perhaps, Michell thought, the speed of light is affected in a similar way.
  — Big Think, 9 Sep. 2025
• Particles can move through those substances quicker than that (though not faster than speed of light in a vacuum).
  — Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 29 June 2023
• Here’s what everyone should know about the expanding Universe and the speed of light.
  — Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 14 Aug. 2025
• Moving at close to the speed of light, the jet serves as an indicator of a supermassive black hole.
  — Samuel Sanders, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Sep. 2024
• The author of this piece states that the speed of light is sixty-five miles per hour, and fifty-five miles per hour at night or in inclement weather.
  — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
• This creates jets of particles that travel at a substantial fraction of the speed of light.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 18 Sep. 2024