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• The incessant flashing of the neon sign kept the neighborhood awake.From the entry flashing
• "Neon Gravestones" is a forlorn slow burn by Twenty One Pilots.From the entry slow burn
• Breweriana includes beer cans, bottles, openers, coasters, beer trays, wooden cases and neon signs.From the entry breweriana
• By applying electric potential to the neon atoms, the electrons become excited, then emit a photon when returning to normal.From the entry excite
• "Neon Gravestones" is a forlorn, slow-burning hip hop piano ballad.From the entry slow-burning
• Glenn looked up to see a blinking neon purple sign that read Jon Jon's.2023 January 12, Joe Spano, Quagmire, AuthorHouse, →ISBN. From the entry Michigan left
• A swarm of thin neon tetra with red bellies and bright blue backs flash by.2021, Jenni Fagan, Luckenbooth, William Heinemann, page 270. From the entry neon tetra
• It definitely looks like a beer—no shimmering neon green here—and it’s well carbonated like a beer.2013, Adem Tepedelen, The Brewtal Truth Guide to Extreme Beers: An All-Excess Pass to Brewing’s Outer Limits, Guilford, Conn.: Lyons…. From the entry graham crackery
• Under the blazing Nevada sun, a dozen Xanadus glittered with million-watt neon signs.2012, Mario Puzo, Fools Die, page 6. From the entry Xanadu
• You can spot his smartlessness twelve miles away, like a throbbing neon sign.2006, Michelle Tea, chapter 1, in Rose of No Man's Land, review copy edition, San Francisco, CA: MacAdam/Cage, →ISBN, page 13. From the entry smartlessness
• Now Dianamania flickers fitfully on and off like faulty neon while Beatlemania blazes stronger than ever.2005, Philip Norman, Shout!: the Beatles in their generation. From the entry Dianamania
• The neons are large (as neons go) and the red-eyes are almost an inch and a quarter.1996 May 25, Mark Lawrence Storch, “Cichilds with Tetras”, in rec.aquaria.freshwater.misc (Usenet). From the entry red-eye
• Arc lights slashed the cool air along the neon facades of bars and after-hours clubs.1995, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Robert E. Weinberg, Martin Harry Greenberg, 100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories (page 147). From the entry nightcrawler
• DAVE’S EATERIA, the neon proclaimed, splashing pink and green on to the parking lot.1990, Craig Thomas, “Blood and Voices”, in The Last Raven, London: Collins, →ISBN, page 109. From the entry eateria
• By then Black Beard was all Buddhaed-out in the full lotus, under a neon light.1979, Paul Watkins, My life with Charles Manson, New York, NY: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 6. From the entry Buddhaed
• He dressed quickly, missing buttons, mislacing his high shoes, and he went out into the neon night.1978, Samuel Astrachan, Katz-Cohen: A Novel, page 284. From the entry mislace
• He may even be having his first doubts about the neon chrome artyfake Disneyfication of America.1959, Lawrence Lipton, The Holy Barbarians, Messner, pages 143–44. From the entry disneyfication
• The momager followed up Kim's post with her own, sharing a throwback pic of herself in a neon pink '80s swimsuit.2023 June 14, Alexandria Dale, “Kim Kardashian relaxes poolside in a bright pink thong bikini”, in Women's Health, archived from the…. From the entry get the memo
• On the very top row stand clear glass bottles with swirling liquids ranging from neon yellow and blue to unicorn puke.2020, Alesha Escobar, The Wayward Wizard, Creative Alchemy, →ISBN, page 14. From the entry unicorn puke
• Yakub's laboratory - tank top and neon athletic shorts.2015 April 20, Hau Chu, “Letter from the EIC”, in IV: Fourth Estate: George Mason University's official student news outlet, page 3. From the entry caucasity
• During the day, the surrounding blocks are no better, full of cheesy bars, tacky shops and brash, neon nastiness.2011 June 5, Lucinda Baring, “Florida: driving along the Overseas Highway to Key West”, in The Daily Telegraph. From the entry nastiness
• He takes a successful stab at anything futuristic: from cellophane-wrapped neon punks and abstract oriental peasantwear, to poetic stark white.2001, The Fashion Book, Phaidon, →ISBN, page 492. From the entry peasantwear
• My roommate has a 30 gallon long tank that is currently stocked with 6 neons and about 30 red-eyes.1996 May 25, Mark Lawrence Storch, “Cichilds with Tetras”, in rec.aquaria.freshwater.misc (Usenet). From the entry red-eye
• Man, you are a walking neon sign advertising your vocation.1972, Jack Pearl, Victims, page 42. From the entry high-side
• A hotel's enormous neon name challenged the starless sky.1962, James Baldwin, Another Country, Dell, published 1985, Book One, Chapter 1, p. 10. From the entry starless
• The neon lines were fairly intense and are quite uncometary.1940, American journal of science, volume 238, page 571. From the entry uncometary
• Salvage crews in hard hats and neon yellow jackets inch along in a temporary cable car suspended high over the churning Atlantic.2025 December 29, Lindsay Jones, “A Newfoundland winter brings new risks to Coast Guard's biggest-ever operation. Crews at mercy of the…. From the entry container
• An icon of body positivity who once cloaked her curves under neon tone track suits and hoodies, she appears to be done with all that.2021 May 4, Ruth La Ferla, “On That Bombshell Billie Eilish Cover for British Vogue”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry body positivity
• Retailers are also taking a page out of this playbook by creating shopping experiences with Instagramable moments, including photo booths, branded mirrors and neon signs.2018 October 10, Kaya Yurieff, “Restaurants Rise to Fame over Instagramable Food”, in CNN Business, archived from the original on 12 Nov…. From the entry Instagrammable
• The dirt was humid and black, difficult to find under several autumnfuls of leaves, but a few scattered spots of neon yellow stood out.2018, Edgar Cantero, Meddling Kids. From the entry autumnful
• The lightning was no more daunting than the flicker of a neon tube, yet it seemed to catch on the yellow of the artwork.2015, Bruce Clark, Paradise for Beginners. From the entry underfeel
• It was the kind of place with a neon martini glass for a name and an unsinkable turd floating in the toilet.2007, Eric Puchner, “Children of God”, in Music Through the Floor: Stories, page 13. From the entry unsinkable
• Bruce Nauman uses neon not to advertise a product or service but to make absurd or insulting proclamations, and his fiberglass is heavy and unsleek.1997 September 5, Mark Swartz, “Rebuilding the Material World”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry unsleek
• The green neon sign outside ingeniously depicted the face of an oscilloscope tube, over which flowed an ever-changing dance of Lissajous figures.1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 3, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 30. From the entry Lissajous figure
• A typical photochopper circuit is made up of two neon bulbs electrically connected in the form of a relaxation oscillator (Fig. 5).1963, Space/aeronautics - Volume 40, page 98. From the entry photochopper
• There were two or three all-night diners to choose from and they pushed through the door that announced GOOD EATS in the brightest neon.1954, Ian Fleming, “The Everglades”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 118. From the entry eats
• The neons and spandex of the “Safety Dance” lend Yalies a fleeting escape from their normal selves, the self who un-tags Facebook photos that may hurt their future electability.2009 October 23, Claire Gordon, “The decade that never dies”, in Yale Daily News, archived from the original on 13 Feb 2010. From the entry Yalie
• The UPI report noted that demonstrators sported "neon hairdos and tight leather clothes" as they blocked streets and disrupted traffic in a "Stop the City" demonstration.1984 April 14, Sue Hyde, “Queer Reports Dept.”, in Gay Community News, page 2. From the entry sartorial
• This is a show about light and dark, and as deftly as it mimics the glaring neon of Reaganite consumer culture, it tweaks the conspiracy theories blooming in the shadows.2019 July 4, Sophie Gilbert, “The American Paranoia of Stranger Things 3”, in The Atlantic. From the entry Reaganite

Meaning of neon

1. noun The chemical element (symbol Ne) with an atomic number of 10. The second of the noble gases, it is a colourless, odorless inert gas.
2. noun A form or sample of the element.
3. noun Neon signs or lights, collectively.

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Questions about neon in a sentence

How do you use neon in a sentence?

Neon is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “The incessant flashing of the neon sign kept the neighborhood awake.”

What is a short sentence with neon?

“A hotel's enormous neon name challenged the starless sky.”

What does neon mean?

Neon means the chemical element (symbol Ne) with an atomic number of 10. The second of the noble gases, it is a colourless, odorless inert gas.