How to Use laser in a Sentence

laser

1 of 2 noun
  • Juan Mosquera fired a laser from the far edge of the box that just missed the corner of the goal.
    Bill Oram, oregonlive, 17 Apr. 2023
  • On the big screen, neon blue lasers fill in the rest of your imagination.
    Jeff Weiss, Spin, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The wires and screens were obscured, the rough edges erased with laser precision.
    Allyssia Alleyne, WIRED, 12 Feb. 2024
  • The tank-killing laser comes in the section on Land Combat Support.
    Kelsey D. Atherton, Popular Science, 2 May 2023
  • To read the data, the researchers again depended on a pair of lasers.
    IEEE Spectrum, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The video posted on TikTok shows one or two lasers pointing at the plane.
    Elizabeth Blackstock / Jalopnik, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Onboard the ship, families can play laser tag and surf the Flow Rider.
    Megan Dubois, Chron, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The applicator must be touching your skin for the laser to work.
    India Espy-Jones, Essence, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Mixed-up in one sense, laser-focused in plenty of others.
    WIRED, 29 Mar. 2023
  • See below for the best Prime Day 2023 laser hair removal device deals.
    Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 11 July 2023
  • Also new this year is a 20-foot-high urban zip line and a laser tag game in downtown Québec City.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2024
  • This rules out lasers, which would only be visible in a fine mist or fog.
    Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 4 May 2023
  • Opal loves playtime with the laser pointer, her feather toys, and the crinkle tunnel.
    The Republic, The Arizona Republic, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Existing laser weapons focus on zapping drones out of the sky.
    Kelsey D. Atherton, Popular Science, 2 May 2023
  • Sunday also brought lasers for the very first time with a laser show finale after dark.
    Jesse Wright, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2023
  • And the calibration to get the laser to hit all the fixtures accurately?
    Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 24 Apr. 2023
  • In The Flash, Cage’s Superman was fighting a large creature with red lasers coming out of his eyes.
    James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The injury is the result of an otherwise tame round of laser tag before the second-to-last show in Kansas City.
    Aileen Goos, SPIN, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Then, some 10 minutes later, the lady of the hour took the stage to loud cheers and shoutouts amid laser lights and lightning flashes across a giant video screen.
    Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 18 June 2023
  • Give them 30 seconds for each shot, no yardage books, no lasers, binoculars or GPS.
    Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Upstairs is a shop with machines such as 3D printers and laser cutters.
    Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2024
  • While go-karts, laser tag and arcades are in the works in Merriam and Overland Park, Shawnee may be playing this game, too.
    Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 17 Jan. 2024
  • So laser on the face is best for thick and dark hairs and electrolysis works better for those with dark but thinner hairs.
    Margaux Anbouba, ELLE, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Vidal Allen stepped out from the driver’s side of a 2004 Impala as lasers from the officers’ guns lingered on his body.
    Maggie Prosser, Dallas News, 28 Mar. 2023
  • There are routers and cutters and lasers that make our work more efficient and accurate.
    Dale Buss, Forbes, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Police power on the device, which points a laser at the officer’s target.
    Olivia Diaz, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The new technique uses a much faster laser scanning system—the device can now print 660 times as fast as before.
    IEEE Spectrum, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Study co-author Wei Min, a biophysicist at Columbia, was one of the inventors of the laser method used to test the samples.
    Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2024
  • There’s no confetti, no laser show, just the Kid sat alone on stage with his mic, backing band and some neat visuals.
    Lars Brandle, Billboard, 1 Mar. 2024
  • This image is transferred back onto the film using a laser cutter.
    Caterina De Biasio, Vogue, 8 Feb. 2024
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laser

2 of 2 verb
  • All together, to laser both the front and back of my legs took about 10 minutes.
    Kaitlyn Frey, PEOPLE.com, 19 Dec. 2019
  • My guide was able to laser in on the right ones for my ability level.
    Rebecca Misner, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Mar. 2021
  • Guests can fight zombies or challenge friends to laser tag.
    Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Satellite dishes mark the main gate of Fort Gordon, eggshell white and lasering up at the moon.
    Matt Gallagher, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2018
  • After trying many other tactics to get rid of the crows, the town is now moving to laser pointers.
    Justin Ray, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2022
  • Stimpson lasered in on a large warehouse at the Brookley Aeroplex, about 3 miles south of downtown.
    al, 23 Feb. 2020
  • And there was the option of lasering away dilated blood vessels.
    Alice Gregory, Allure, 28 Apr. 2019
  • Jonn Edmunds and his friends grew up playing with water guns, then laser tag in the family’s big yard.
    Mead Gruver, Thomas Peipert, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2021
  • The women, weaponized in power heels, stand equally vertical, meeting the men laser eye to laser eye.
    James Wolcott, HWD, 27 Apr. 2018
  • There are, of course, upsides to laser hair removal treatments and bikini waxes.
    Megan Gustashaw, Glamour, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Per design, Krug was supposed to toss the puck to Bergeron, who in turn would bump it back to Krug, who in turn would laser a pass to Marchand breaking wide on the wing.
    BostonGlobe.com, 23 Nov. 2019
  • Missouri’s first touchdown came when Lock lasered the ball to J’Mon Moore along the left sideline midway through the second quarter.
    Aaron Reiss, kansascity, 7 Oct. 2017
  • Kizer, who lasered a shot to a leaping David Njoku in the end zone for a TD in one team period, struggled later in his two-minute drill.
    Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland.com, 14 June 2017
  • Chris Devenski’s left his bat at 104 mph and lasered into the Crawford Boxes for his second home run of the game.
    Shayna Rubin, The Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Roger Federer flying into a forehand, his gaze lasered on the point of contact.
    Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2019
  • Helped by a Sean Kuraly muff in Boston’s defensive end, Timashov raced right-left across the slot and lasered a sharp wrister to the top righthand corner.
    BostonGlobe.com, 19 Oct. 2019
  • Lasers Fraxel lasering resurfaces your face for smoother, brighter, non-wrinkled skin.
    Chloe Metzger, Marie Claire, 18 July 2018
  • Noses can be changed, and stomachs can be tightened, and cellulite can be lasered away, apparently.
    Glamour, 11 Nov. 2018
  • Stefani spent the near two-hour runtime reviving songs from her past with a fresh twist, energy on tilt and focus lasered.
    Steven J. Horowitz, Billboard, 28 June 2018
  • Others were initially caught off guard by a black line lasered onto the basketball to help with shooting mechanics.
    Chris Fedor, cleveland, 19 Feb. 2020
  • Four days later, Darvish debuted in his new team’s gray and blue road uniforms, lasering fastballs and looping curves for seven shutout innings.
    Robert O'Connell, The Atlantic, 9 Aug. 2017
  • With a wide array of specimens and artifacts, the museum chronicles the history and practice of medicine, from leeches to laser surgery.
    Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2021
  • But the Navy already has a bigger destroyer that can host everything from hypersonic missiles to laser weapons.
    Loren Thompson, Forbes, 6 Apr. 2021
  • While the sisters get lasered, Kourtney invites her sisters to a pinball competition at her friend’s husband’s new restaurant.
    Mariah Smith, The Cut, 12 June 2017
  • Schneider’s illustrations carry the dynamic action of a comic book as Ultrabot lasers a cat on the moon and lets Becky zoom over the neighborhood in his airplane.
    Jennifer Day, chicagotribune.com, 24 June 2019
  • And that brings us to laser hair removal, a popular semi-permanent option that damages hair follicles to minimize hair growth.
    Jessica Cruel, SELF, 25 Jan. 2022
  • It’s not necessary to laser-scan objects with expensive instruments.
    Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 6 Sep. 2020
  • This condition is called twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome and is treatable either by early delivery or by lasering blood vessels in the placenta.
    Anna Nowogrodzki, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
  • The last time American antitrust regulators lasered in on a big tech company — Microsoft, two decades ago — Silicon Valley cheered.
    Owen Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 14 Aug. 2019
  • Translation: after my hellacious biopsy, the abnormal cells had to be removed via cervical ablation, which involves lasering the abnormal cells off of the cervix.
    Gigi Engle, Glamour, 10 Sep. 2019

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