How to Use fiber optics in a Sentence

fiber optics

plural noun
  • That is part of the charm of playing at the speed of fiber optics.
    — Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 13 Mar. 2025
  • This sort of embrace could be felt through fiber optics, too.
    — Mike Seely, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2017
  • That’s the phase that will see us host fiber optics on power lines.
    — Alexander Onukwue, Quartz, 25 Mar. 2022
  • The thing is, everyone who works with fiber optics has always known this.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 25 June 2020
  • In modern fiber optics, this loss is so small that light can travel hundreds of miles and still be seen.
    — John Ballato, The Conversation, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Demand for its fiber optics cables is surging.
    — Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Other stations went off the air when their fiber optic cables were severed.
    — Jim Wyss, miamiherald, 17 Oct. 2017
  • In the future, one chip could replace a thousand lasers used in current fiber optics.
    — Popular Mechanics, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Contractors had to string more than three miles of cables and fiber optics throughout each ship.
    — T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Using the poles means the city would mount the fiber optic for the first time aerially, rather than burying it.
    — Steve Lord, Aurora Beacon-News, 11 July 2018
  • Marra was accustomed to background noise on his fiber optics.
    — Eric Hand, Science | AAAS, 14 June 2018
  • Coen said on social media that the gas line was hit by fiber optics installers.
    — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Patrons wear their emotions on their sleeves while draped in blankets that contain a network of fiber optics.
    — Hannah Weinberger, Outside Online, 2 July 2014
  • Some dendrites focused the light, channeling it outward like a kitschy fiber optic light display.
    — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2019
  • The dress was a prototype that featured fiber optic lights MacPhee was able to control from her phone.
    — Monique Judge, The Root, 18 Oct. 2017
  • OnLight Aurora now has more than 82 miles of fiber optics in the city.
    — Steve Lord, Aurora Beacon-News, 28 Feb. 2018
  • The boats unfurled 40 miles of fiber optic cable into the dark, choppy water.
    — Cecilia Kang, The Seattle Times, 8 Dec. 2017
  • There were lawsuits filed by Dynus, a now-defunct fiber optics company, and the county against each other.
    — Sarah Brookbank, Cincinnati.com, 11 June 2018
  • The state also will add new rainwater drainage and pumps, and fiber optics to monitor the number and speed of vehicles.
    — Tony Bizjak, sacbee, 12 Apr. 2018
  • The trivergence Three events took place within roughly a 10-year span that paved the way for today’s fiber optics.
    — John Ballato, The Conversation, 24 Mar. 2026
  • White nylon string hanging through the net, along with green fiber optics that run through branches on the grid, create the willowy effect overhead.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2021
  • That meant investing in water, sewer, fiber optics and more, depending on the site’s needs, Brock said.
    — Jamie McGee, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2018
  • There are three major advantages of fiber optics, the Iron Cluster experts said.
    — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 12 Jan. 2025
  • The telecom industry has spent hundreds of billions of dollars laying the fiber optics network down.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Likewise, bringing fiber optics to all corners of this country is the right vision to keep America great.
    — WSJ, 24 Sep. 2023
  • There, in the last five years, fiber optics have started to shed light on seismic rumblings, ocean currents and even animal behaviors.
    — Carolyn Wilke, Discover Magazine, 28 Nov. 2022
  • On order is a 20-by-10-foot fiber optic curtain that will form a video wall that plays animation.
    — Domenica Bongiovanni, Indianapolis Star, 24 Oct. 2019
  • The result is a statute built for a world of rotary dials, operating in a world defined by fiber optics and streaming platforms.
    — Jay Caruso, The Washington Examiner, 27 Feb. 2026
  • That creates a characteristic ground vibration that disturbs the fiber optics near the track, which shows up in the light signal.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 31 Jan. 2024
  • All this spending has meant higher revenue for Corning's division that houses fiber optics.
    — Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 26 Feb. 2026

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