How to Use electromagnetic in a Sentence

electromagnetic

adjective
  • Like the bracelet, the cord emits an electromagnetic field the company claims will keep sharks up to six feet away.
    — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 7 July 2023
  • The range can sense when a pan is on it and uses an electromagnetic field to zap heat into the metal.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2021
  • The post is also wrong about electromagnetic fields playing a role.
    — Isabella Fertel, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2023
  • One of its predictions is that light is a smooth wave that moves through the electromagnetic field at a constant speed.
    — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 30 Oct. 2024
  • The photon carries the electromagnetic force, which gives rise to light.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 24 Mar. 2023
  • This much charge can power a small fan for a while or propel a paper plane in an electromagnetic launcher.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Officers in one of the cars opened up the moonroof and shot it with an electromagnetic gun, disabling it.
    — Alex Isenstadt, Axios, 9 Feb. 2025
  • This paint turns the wall into a touchscreen and an electromagnetic sensor.
    — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Each water molecule looks like a central unit with four arms spread apart by the electromagnetic force.
    — Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Just a slice of electromagnetic wavelength and sight is ours, a blindness gone at the end of traveling through our nights.
    — Donna Kane, Scientific American, 21 June 2022
  • The electromagnetic field that forms causes ions to flow from one grape half to the other via the connecting skin—at least at first.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 27 Dec. 2024
  • The electromagnetic and weak forces were replaced.
    — Big Think, 27 Apr. 2026
  • This stage helps to release electromagnetic frequencies stored in the body.
    — Alex Erdekian, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Jan. 2023
  • The coils emit strong electromagnetic signals into the ground or water.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 9 June 2026
  • And then, the electromagnetic force leverages two facts about the Universe.
    — Big Think, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Presumably, the team is looking for lab space in a building with little in the way of stray electromagnetic fields.
    — John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 19 May 2025
  • Those particles, now charged, can then be moved and sorted by the machine’s electromagnetic fields.
    — Ramin Skibba, Wired, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Wait, is my version of God an electromagnetic hamster glowing through a wall?
    — Fiona Landers, New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The conclusion was that, at very high energy levels, the electromagnetic and weak forces were one and the same.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2021
  • An electromagnetic field allows a current to flow between the mat and the phone, charging the device.
    — Alyssa Newcomb, NBC News, 12 Sep. 2017
  • This strengthens and organizes one’s electromagnetic field, which can be sensed at a distance.
    — Ginny Whitelaw, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • When the electromagnetic situation is in flux like that, things tend to go a little haywire on the surface.
    — Nicole Clausing, Sunset Magazine, 11 Oct. 2023
  • In the primordial fluid, dark matter felt the pull of gravity, but not the electromagnetic push from light rays.
    — Quanta Magazine, 28 Jan. 2020
  • Some studies suggest that tidal forces and electromagnetic effects from celestial bodies, such as the moon and the sun, may play a role.
    — Jenny Lehmann, Discover Magazine, 5 Mar. 2025
  • The electromagnetic field apparently refers to the high power line that can be seen in the photographs.
    — Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY, 20 Aug. 2020
  • In the vacuum of space, radio waves and other forms of electromagnetic energy flash straight across the voids.
    — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 20 July 2019
  • Of all the electromagnetic waves in the universe, gamma rays have the smallest wavelengths and the most energy.
    — Sam McNeil, Star Tribune, 21 May 2021
  • Okay, if particles can go through them, the fields can go as well—like the electromagnetic field and the gravitational field.
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 10 Oct. 2019
  • When the sun launches a strong flare toward Earth, the electromagnetic energy hits the planet at the speed of light.
    — National Geographic, 18 Mar. 2019
  • Inside each of the mission's four thrusters, an electromagnetic field ionizes the xenon gas before expelling the ions to produce thrust.
    — ArsTechnica, 1 May 2025

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