How to Use wavelength in a Sentence

wavelength

noun

• Light and sound have different wavelengths.
• They were limited to a depth of seven frames by the wavelengths used and the size of the DMD.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Sep. 2023
• So to us, their light appears to have a longer wavelength.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 7 Jan. 2022
• The pair, who are adorably nervous all evening, appear to be on the same wavelength.
  — Emlyn Travis, EW.com, 19 Oct. 2022
• Luisi and the orchestra were challenged to keep on the same wavelength.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 27 Mar. 2023
• That movement stretches the light and makes its wavelength longer.
  — Sarah Scoles, Quanta Magazine, 20 Sep. 2023
• This is the wavelength of light that the pigment granules in the hogfish absorb best.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 23 Aug. 2023
• As objects move away from us, the wavelength is stretched, shifting it toward the red end.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 13 Dec. 2022
• Those are precisely the wavelengths at which these small red dwarf stars give off most of their light.
  — WIRED, 2 Oct. 2023
• No wavelength is perfect, Longcore says, but blue and white are worst of all.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 13 June 2022
• More than 100 countries are thinking along the same wavelength.
  — Ted Dhillon, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2022
• The light from screens uses blue light, which is made up of shorter wavelengths that are perceived by the brain as a cue to be alert and awake9.
  — Emily Elveru, Parents, 3 Aug. 2023
• Consumers appear to be on the same wavelength as investors.
  — Paul Vigna, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
• Much of the ocean appears blue to human eyes, but the true color may contain a mix of wavelengths, from blue to green and even red.
  — Time, 13 July 2023
• Jenna Ortega and Aubrey Plaza are on the same wavelength.
  — Christina Dugan Ramirez, Peoplemag, 26 Feb. 2023
• The higher the frequency, the shorter the wavelength, and the farther signals can travel.
  — Stephanie Yangstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2022
• The color of that light depends on its wavelength, which is affected by the size of the quantum dot, which ranges from 2–10 nm.
  — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 5 Jan. 2022
• If the wavelength were much shorter, like visible light, the radio waves would have been scattered by the dust.
  — Katie McCormick, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Nov. 2022
• So Butler and his team settled on the theme of wavelength properties to show hearing and sound.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 4 Apr. 2022
• That causes light from those distant objects to get stretched to longer wavelengths.
  — David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2023
• Of course, there is one big catch—the distance between these two crystals can’t be larger than the wavelength of the sound wave itself.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 23 Aug. 2023
• And yet the ensemble manages to work on the same weird wavelength, many of them playing two characters in one.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2022
• Monochromatic means that the light is one single wavelength.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 24 Dec. 2021
• The three men were on the same wavelength in at least one respect: subversive in their joke-telling, earnest in their personal lives.
  — NBC News, 12 Apr. 2022
• Metal plates and mirrors inside the box captured the solar wavelengths that came through the glass window – and the oven would heat up to 350 degrees.
  — Johanna Mayer, Scientific American, 16 Nov. 2023
• On the other hand, Webb, which launched to space in 2021, detects near- and mid-infrared light of longer wavelengths than the visible spectrum.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Jan. 2024
• Leaves look green because that’s the light wavelength that is mostly reflected back at our eyes.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 10 June 2022
• Again, a red laser is mostly just one wavelength, but not exactly.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 24 Dec. 2021
• The eyes on giant squids are optimized for shorter-wavelength blue light.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 3 Aug. 2022
• The specifics are very dependent on both the size of the particles and the light’s wavelength, but generally the smoke will bend blue light much more than red light.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 16 June 2023

Last Updated: 7 May 2024