How to Use ultraviolet in a Sentence

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• When the dust clouds from each star collide, it is heated by the ultraviolet light from the two stars.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 2 Sep. 2022
• Once the resin fills into the mold, ultraviolet light hardens the part.
  — Pranshu Verma, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2023
• On the hottest of summer days, trees can help cool our homes and streets and shelter us from ultraviolet rays.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2022
• Basking in the sun is a joyful past-time for many, even to those who know how dangerous the ultraviolet rays from the sun can be to the skin.
  — Nina Shapiro, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2022
• The surrounding dust grains absorb the ultraviolet light and reemit it in the infrared.
  — Aaron S. Evans, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2021
• The cancer often appears in the head and neck area, which are often the most exposed to the ultraviolet rays of the sun, according to the Mayo Clinic.
  — Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 13 Jan. 2023
• The bottom half shows Mira in visible light, and the top half reveals the tail viewed in ultraviolet light.
  — Popular Mechanics, 25 Jan. 2023
• In an effort to kill germs, whenever a ball was touched by a player, the Scotties waved a wand with ultraviolet light over the ball.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2023
• The Masels treated the windows to filter ultraviolet light to protect the art from sun damage, said Mr. Masel.
  — Sarah Paynter, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2022
• But when the waves get shorter still, the light becomes invisible and is known as ultraviolet (UV).
  — Chris Baraniuk, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Sep. 2022
• The cleaner air has allowed more ultraviolet light to reach the dome surface, possibly feeding the biofilm colony.
  — Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2021
• That’s because the lenses in our eyes absorb tons of ultraviolet radiation over the course of our lives.
  — Meghan Rabbitt, Good Housekeeping, 14 Oct. 2021
• Another way is to use a tanning bed or lamp that emits ultraviolet light.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2022
• Extreme ultraviolet light is then beamed through the plate and onto the wafer, printing a design on it before it’s bathed in chemicals to etch along the pattern.
  — Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023
• In the final stages, the photo is exposed to ultraviolet light and developed in liquids.
  — Sarah Quiñones Wolfson, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2022
• Lightning storms rolled around the globe, and ultraviolet radiation rained down in the absence of an ozone layer.
  — David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2023
• But clothing must also be dense enough to shield against ultraviolet rays.
  — Christopher Flavelle, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2022
• Vitamin C can prevent and treat skin damage from ultraviolet (UV) light and even plays a role in wound healing.
  — Jaclyn London, M.s., R.d., Good Housekeeping, 5 Oct. 2022
• One of the key breakthroughs in the process was developing the camera hardware to capture ultraviolet light, a challenge that had plagued scientists in the past.
  — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Jan. 2024
• In some moments, a light panel, glowing red with nameless portent, drops down low, just above the head of a singer, threatening to crush her by ultraviolet force.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 25 July 2022
• In fact, very little ultraviolet light gets to the back of the eye because the cornea (your eye’s clear, protective layer) and lens filter out that radiation.
  — Meghan Rabbitt, Good Housekeeping, 14 Oct. 2021
• Melanoma is often caused by skin exposure to ultraviolet light, the type of light invisible to the human eye that comes from the sun or indoor tanning beds.
  — Brian Bushard, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
• The birds with the most intense yellow and ultraviolet-colored mouths—an indicator of good immune health—get more worms.
  — Sam Zlotnik, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Aug. 2022
• Butterflies can see parts of the light spectrum that are invisible to human eyes and use these ultraviolet patterns to find their way to tasty plants.
  — WIRED, 16 Mar. 2023
• Ozone, a colorless gas that protects Earth from ultraviolet rays, can be harmful when at the ground level–where people breathe the air, according to DEP.
  — Maeve Lawler, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2023
• These stars spew out huge amounts of ultraviolet radiation that make the region appear to look like a chicken running around.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 21 Dec. 2023
• Molina warned that the chlorine was attacking the ozone layer, which helps shield the Earth from harmful ultraviolet radiation from the sun.
  — John Fialka, Scientific American, 9 Oct. 2021
• The major risk factor for a squamous cell cancer is ultraviolet light.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 19 Oct. 2021
• Simmers said that state police brought in an expert to use an ultraviolet black light to detect bodily fluids in the area Betsy had been found.
  — NBC News, 28 Nov. 2021
• With his indoor-pool projects, the water is typically treated with ultraviolet light and a small amount of chlorine.
  — Beth Decarbo, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024