How to Use dark energy in a Sentence

dark energy

noun
  • Those with tons of dark energy might be cat’s-eyes, and so on.
    — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 17 Nov. 2022
  • That means that the amount of total dark energy changes over time.
    — Don Lincoln, CNN, 3 June 2021
  • This lends weight to the idea that dark energy is not a constant.
    — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Child-size carts sometimes bring a dark energy to the aisles, though.
    — Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2020
  • But that dark energy gave rise to a great music and art movement.
    — Lauren Sloss, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2020
  • The rest of us will relish its dark energy and brute force, along with the jagged rhythms of its prose.
    — Gabriel Krauze, Star Tribune, 2 July 2021
  • At first blush, black holes and dark energy seem to have nothing to do with each other.
    — Byadam Mann, science.org, 13 Feb. 2023
  • But this growth makes sense if the black holes somehow bubble up dark energy in their hearts.
    — Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2025
  • That is what dark energy is doing to the universe.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 12 May 2026
  • That ought to be enough for researchers to say for sure whether dark energy is varying or not.
    — Quanta Magazine, 17 Dec. 2025
  • The amount of dark energy that fits inside your bedroom, say, isn’t very strong.
    — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 30 May 2025
  • Yes, there might have been dark matter and dark energy present as well, even at these early stages.
    — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Guy and his colleagues hope to shed light on what dark energy really is.
    — Ramin Skibba, Wired, 13 Jan. 2022
  • But if this is right, this is the next step after the discovery of dark energy.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 Mar. 2025
  • So how does dark energy alter the story?
    — Big Think, 27 Mar. 2026
  • As Froese mentions, the same could be said of dark matter or dark energy.
    — Conor Feehly, Big Think, 10 Mar. 2026
  • These matter more, and hence are far more real, than wave functions or dark energy.
    — John Horgan, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2021
  • In that case, dark energy might be the work of something called quintessence.
    — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2021
  • If this value were the true strength of dark energy, space would be ballooning much, much faster.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 1 May 2023
  • How do dark matter, dark energy, gravity and space-time fit in?
    — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2023
  • These kinds of models allow dark energy to vary with distance.
    — Robert Lea, Popular Mechanics, 14 Sep. 2022
  • There’s so much space that dark energy makes up 70% of everything.
    — Quanta Magazine, 3 Dec. 2021
  • Changes in the size of the dark dimension would affect both dark energy and dark matter.
    — Quanta Magazine, 22 June 2026
  • And dark matter and dark energy are key features of the standard model.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 18 July 2018
  • With maps of the three deep fields starting to expand, answers to dark matter and dark energy may soon be in reach.
    — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Both of these led to the suggestion that dark energy is weakening.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 22 June 2026
  • This is exactly the dark energy that has destroyed once-great nations.
    — Arkansas Online, 6 Mar. 2021
  • Up until now, researchers have been able to track dark energy’s effects up to about 9 billion years ago.
    — Chelsea Gohd, Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2019
  • Voids seemed to offer astronomers a promising way of studying what might be driving dark energy.
    — Michael D. Lemonick, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2024
  • Researchers hope the effort may yield clues about dark matter as well as an equally puzzling force known as dark energy.
    — ABC News, 30 June 2026

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