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How to use ray in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Ray means a beam of light or radiation. Example: “I saw a ray of light through the clouds.”

Examples of ray by meaning

nounA beam of light or radiation.

  • I saw a ray of light through the clouds.
  • Strangely light and delicate was his frame and seeming, yet with a sense of slumbering power beneath, as the delicate peak of a snow mountain seen afar in the low red rays of morning.1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 5

verbTo expose to radiation.

  • Rats' eyes with ulcus serpens were successfully treated; one second of raying stopped the progress of the ulcer, which healed uninterruptedly.1928, Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, page 219

More sentences with ray

  • The Earth, which I esteem unable to reflect the rays of the Sun.From the entry esteem
  • Cabrera's Valentine's Day monopole detection or some extremely energetic cosmic rays could be examples of snarks.From the entry snark
  • The rays of the sun were extinguished by the thunder clouds.From the entry extinguish
  • The evil aliens' death rays could not penetrate our mighty force fields!From the entry death ray
  • She undrew the curtain to reveal the shining rays of the sun.From the entry undraw
  • They applied the good old grocery shrink ray and yet they also raised the price as well!From the entry grocery shrink ray
  • Sunscreen shields against the harmful effects of solar rays.From the entry shield
  • Cosmic rays are energetic particles from outer space.From the entry energetic
  • The evil alien pointed a death ray at me and ordered me to start marching toward the distant fortress!From the entry death ray
  • High-factor suncream blocks out the sun's rays.From the entry block out
  • The sun's rays burned hot today.From the entry burn
  • For some applications, software architecture needs to be capable of tolerating bitflips from cosmic rays, through methods such as parameter value refreshes and sanity checks.From the entry cosmic ray
  • E.g., orthostyle is a series of columns in architecture, an ortholinear keyboard has the keys aligned in straight columns, an orthographic projection has its rays parallel.From the entry ortho-
  • Lead bricks were placed around the radioactive source so that the escaping gamma rays would be limited to a collimated beam rather than filling the lab.From the entry collimate
  • On this episode of Interstellar Voyagers From Uranus, our heroes encounter a planet where shrink rays threaten to trap them inside a terrarium as an alien's pets!From the entry shrink ray
  • Chemical ingredients — such as avobenzone, oxybenzone and homosalate — absorb the UV rays.2023 July 15, Dana G. Smith, “Why Sunscreen Is the Only Anti-Aging Product You Need”, in The New York Times. From the entry uv
  • “Ray was killed by a wereanimal.” “They have the wereanimal that killed Ray locked up.2020, Laurell K. Hamilton, Sucker Punch, Penguin, →ISBN, page 77. From the entry wereanimal
  • Any ship nearby will receive a lethal dose of gamma rays, neutrons, and other radioactives.2016, Travis S. Taylor, Les Johnson, On to the Asteroid. From the entry radioactive
  • Ground-based observatories have been collecting 0.2 - 20 TeV gamma rays from blazars for about twenty years.2015, Jonathan Biteau, David A. Williams, "The extragalactic background light, the Hubble constant, and anomalies: conclusions from 20…. From the entry extragalactic background light
  • Also, it has been suggested that the incident angle of light rays determines their cataractogenous effect.2015 September 12, “Evaluation of a 345 nm Femtosecond Laser for Corneal Surgery with Respect to Intraocular Radiation Hazard”, in PLOS…. From the entry cataractogenous
  • History is littered with our indifference—dodo birds, great auks, 24-rayed sunstars, dusky seaside sparrows, Bernard’s wolves.2015, M. R. O’Connor, “Introduction”, in Resurrection Science: Conservation, De-Extinction and the Precarious Future of Wild Things, New…. From the entry Bernard's wolf
  • Ray was her fantasy, her mind-candy, as were her plans for his seduction.2010, Alison Kent, Bound to Happen, →ISBN, page 18. From the entry mind candy
  • Arnold came to me as a most welcome ray of light.2009, D.M. Armstrong, Quadrant, November 2009, No. 461 (Volume LIII, Number 11), Quadrant Magazine Limited, page 5. From the entry ray of light
  • Ray was a hand shaker in world full of quick-to-kiss men.2009, David Henry Sterry; R. J. Martin, Jr., Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys, →ISBN. From the entry hand shaker
  • No CyberGoth is complete without gigantic "stompy" platform boots and the optional toy ray gun.2007, Raven Digitalis, Goth Craft: The Magickal Side of Dark Culture. From the entry cyber
  • Lindsay lapped up, thrived on, bloomed under every spotlighty ray of attention.2007 July, Randi Reisfeld, Partiers Preferred (Summer Share), New York, NY: Simon Pulse, →ISBN, page 17. From the entry spotlighty
  • Most minnows are small fish with cycloid scales, soft rays supporting their fins, and toothless jaws.2004, Robert G. Werner, “Carps and Minnows: Family Cyprinidae”, in Freshwater Fishes of the Northeastern United States: A Field Guide…. From the entry minnow
  • One common cause of “flipped bit” memory errors is, believe it or not, cosmic rays.2003, Robert Bruce Thompson, Barbara Fritchman Thompson, PC hardware in a nutshell, page 230. From the entry believe it or not
  • Devilfishes or manta rays of the family Mobulidae are up to 6 meters in width.2002, F. Harvey Pough, Christine M. Janis, John B. Heiser, Vertebrate Life, 6th edition, Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, →ISBN…. From the entry devilfish
  • "And I don't have to worry about ultraviolet rays giving me sunburn or skin cancer.1995 May 23, Weekly World News, volume 16, number 34, page 11. From the entry moonbathe
  • "We want to sit on the beach, watch the girls, and go catch some rays."1992 July 15, Josh Barbanel, “The Lady Edna Is Gone But Not From Long Beach”, in New York Times, retrieved 01 Mar 2017. From the entry catch some rays
  • Ray and his diminished Camino cluster, bass-less and drum-less, nonetheless put on a fine show.1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 262. From the entry drumless
  • Do not wear loose-knit bathing suits or "unsuits" that let the ultraviolet rays through the suit's material.1988, Janice McCall Failes, Frank W. Cawood, Encyclopedia of Natural Health Secrets and Cures, page 160. From the entry unsuit
  • The central ray is directed to a point just inferior to the acanthion.1987, D.M. Wilmot, Gail A. Sharko, Pediatric Imaging for the Technologist, page 114. From the entry acanthion
  • That would bring a little ray of sunshine into otherwise bleak lives.1985 February 9, James R. Cone, “To Write Or Not To Write”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 29, page 4. From the entry ray of sunshine
  • A different shadowcasting arrangement results when light rays are oriented oblique to the picture plane.1979, Kevin Forseth, David Vaughan, Graphics for Architecture, page 191. From the entry shadowcasting
  • In this situation actual and bearing rays appear to vanish in perspective.1979, Kevin Forseth, David Vaughan, Graphics for Architecture, page 191. From the entry shadowcasting

Meaning of ray

  1. noun A beam of light or radiation.
  2. noun A rib-like reinforcement of bone or cartilage in a fish's fin.
  3. noun One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.

Full definition of ray

Questions about ray in a sentence

How do you use ray in a sentence?
Ray is used as a noun and verb. For example: “I saw a ray of light through the clouds.”
What is a short sentence with ray?
“The sun's rays burned hot today.”
What does ray mean?
Ray means a beam of light or radiation.

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