How to Use electric field in a Sentence

electric field

noun
  • Then, the electric field is turned off and the stack cools down.
    — Chris Baraniuk, WIRED, 16 July 2024
  • And could this boost the electric field enough to produce lightning?
    — Quanta Magazine, 6 May 2026
  • Its job is purely to impose a strong electric field across the air gap and the frost.
    — Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 30 Dec. 2025
  • The cloud’s electric field would push the positron backward close to where the avalanche began.
    — Quanta Magazine, 6 May 2026
  • The Tesla coil creates an electric field which then lights up the bulbs.
    — Rollin Bishop, Popular Mechanics, 3 Aug. 2015
  • Meanwhile, the electric field also propels a flow of ions across the nanopore.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Oct. 2025
  • When laser light hits a metal, the electrons, which are free to move around, chase the light's electric field.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2018
  • The friction that builds up in storm clouds gives rise to an electric field extending to the ground.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 20 Aug. 2020
  • In stormy weather, this electric field can reach thousands of volts per meter above the ground.
    — Renae Reints, Fortune, 6 July 2018
  • This alters the way its electric field is distributed.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The other method is to heat up a material in an electric field.
    — Rhett Allain, Wired, 28 Jan. 2022
  • The electric field makes the molecule stretch and contract.
    — Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
  • This creates an electric field that grows until a gigantic spark jumps across the sky.
    — Thomas Lewton, Quanta Magazine, 20 Dec. 2021
  • The silver and zinc then generate a weak electric field that zaps pathogens on the surface.
    — Rachel Crowell, Scientific American, 24 June 2020
  • The spark resulted from the kite/key system being in a strong electric field.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 23 May 2023
  • An electric field then accelerates them and routes them out the back of the spacecraft.
    — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 29 July 2019
  • Then an electric field sort of forces those protons through a proton exchange membrane.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Both of these can be accomplished by applying a strong electric field.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Once the spiders were ballooning in the air, researchers turned the electric field off.
    — Lilly Price, USA TODAY, 6 July 2018
  • When the hydrogel forms, the mixture is exposed to an electric field.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 19 Oct. 2025
  • When exposed to an electric field, the structures begin moving on their own.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Instead of melting frost away, their new method uses electric fields to pull it off cold surfaces.
    — Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 30 Dec. 2025
  • These electrons all create electric fields that push on the other electrons.
    — WIRED, 27 Oct. 2023
  • The researchers arranged a set of electrodes to recreate that electric field.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 11 Dec. 2018
  • The researchers apply that field using a very bright laser, which works because light has an electric field.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 1 June 2019
  • Much as an electric field can overwhelm the weak force of gravity, so, too, can the warmth of a lonely atom.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Some spiders actually managed to take off, but dropped as soon as the electric field was cut.
    — Renae Reints, Fortune, 6 July 2018
  • This can be done by applying a very large electric field to the semiconductor.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 1 June 2019
  • An electric field can make ions flow within each film to expand or compress the space between its layers.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 31 Jan. 2023
  • By changing the voltage across the plates, the magnitude of the electric field will also change.
    — Rhett Allain, Wired, 3 Aug. 2021

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