How to Use high-definition in a Sentence

high-definition

adjective
  • The high-definition streaming video was sent to Earth via laser from deep space.
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 18 Dec. 2023
  • The high-definition footage showed other places where the railing had collapsed.
    — Zoey Lyttle, Peoplemag, 23 June 2023
  • The high-definition footage showed other places where the railing had collapsed.
    — Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The drone is programmed to follow the car’s route and captures high-definition images.
    — Bloomberg, Fortune Asia, 10 Mar. 2024
  • In total, the team captured 62 hours of high-definition footage.
    — Evert Lindquist, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 June 2024
  • The Nebula comes in at a fraction of the price, and includes a high-definition mic for calls.
    — New Atlas, 31 Dec. 2024
  • In one second of high-definition video, millions of pixels are changing.
    — Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 20 Dec. 2025
  • Streaming a high-definition video takes about 25 million bps.
    — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Most can be paired with a laptop and stream their high-definition feed, while others can record footage to an SD card.
    — Matt Crisara, Popular Mechanics, 26 May 2023
  • It’s prized for sculpting a high-definition lip that holds up under the harshest red-carpet lighting.
    — Micaela English, Glamour, 30 Apr. 2026
  • For those without color blindness, the lenses give a high-definition effect to the view.
    — Michelle Matthews | [email protected], al, 20 July 2023
  • At the end of the three-week study, all participants received a high-definition colonoscopy done by Drs.
    — Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Not that rabbit ears and the age of digital and high-definition signals are made for one another.
    — Tom Layberger, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
  • The baby monitor connects to an app that offers a high-definition bird's eye view of your baby.
    — Nora Colomer, Fox News, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Touchscreen Choosing a tread with a high-definition screen comes at a premium.
    — Jennifer Heimlich, SELF, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Bluetooth is not ideal for transferring large files or streaming high-definition video.
    — Shreyas Sen, The Conversation, 23 Feb. 2026
  • One of the Polestar 4's standout features is the high-definition screen instead of a rear window.
    — Emily Dreibelbis, PCMAG, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Their necks contorted slightly and smiles spread across their faces as the high-definition videos started and their journeys commenced.
    — Haven Daley, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2026
  • The upgrades included a high-definition video board, ribbon boards and boosts to audio and lighting.
    — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 3 July 2026
  • Customers can sit in the sports lounge under one of the 17 massive high-definition television screens.
    — Brianna Taylor, Sacramento Bee, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The vehicles use high-definition maps along with cameras and radar to center a vehicle within its lane on a highway.
    — Roberto Baldwin, The Verge, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The Tenacious rover will attempt to scoop up lunar soil and capture high-definition imagery of the Moon.
    — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Instead of the rear glass, the brand is leaning on the capabilities of the high-definition screen that replaces the age-old rear-view mirror.
    — Jeremy White, WIRED, 1 Jan. 2024
  • Thousands of people tune into high-definition livestreams, watching as the drama — and fireworks — unfurl across the sky.
    — Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 24 June 2026
  • Indeed, this sort of feature, perhaps used a few times per day, could require bandwidth equivalent to a second or two of high-definition video.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 9 Feb. 2025
  • Social media had yet to exist, and high-definition TV was in its infancy.
    — Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 14 Feb. 2024
  • But a new high-definition drone video may help Everest fanatics who will never set foot on the peak better understand the nothern route.
    — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 30 June 2025
  • The advent of high-definition TVs, with more than quadruple the resolution of what came before, changed all that.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Behind its gleaming surface is a custom optical system that captures high-definition iris scans.
    — Edd Gent, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Dec. 2022
  • That's fast enough for a single user to watch a Netflix video in ultra high-definition or participate in a Zoom call.
    — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 3 Jan. 2025

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