How to Use infrared in a Sentence

infrared

adjective
  • From here, a door leads to the very small infrared sauna.
    — New Atlas, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Open your camera app to spot infrared lights.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • But an infrared camera can pick up things from heat in the dark.
    — The Conversation, Fortune, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Its near-infrared vision can see through the dust.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 22 June 2026
  • What’s the best infrared heating pad to buy?
    — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 29 Jan. 2026
  • From the infrared sauna to the cedar plunge pool, recharge with canyon views and faint ocean sprays.
    — Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 2 Nov. 2024
  • But longer wavelengths of light, like infrared light, can pass right through them.
    — Big Think, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Here is an infrared image showing the axle on a freight train.
    — Rhett Allain, Wired, 21 Oct. 2020
  • Seeing in the infrared will enable it to look much faster back in time.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021
  • An infrared sauna room has radiant heat that heats the body but not the air.
    — Cory Martin, Verywell Health, 11 June 2025
  • The spa will soon add an infrared sauna and Himalayan salt room, too.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
  • Spitzer’s infrared swirls of dust and gas clouds are portrayed by a piano.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Nov. 2023
  • But until now, no building films could do the same for mid-infrared heat.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 27 Feb. 2023
  • An infrared sauna that fits five and runs 20-minute sessions.
    — Jackie Snow, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2026
  • An infrared camera near the pen's point tracks your writing strokes.
    — Medea Giordano, Wired, 26 Sep. 2021
  • The video’s infrared gaze captures a man’s body heat and breathing.
    — Jeremy Hallock, Dallas News, 15 Sep. 2020
  • Clearlight® infrared produces the same infrared heat as the sun.
    — Mitti Hicks, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Some drones also are equipped with infrared systems.
    — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Each drone is about 3 feet wide and equipped with cameras and infrared night vision.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Gas and dust swirling around a black hole block visible light, but infrared light can punch right through.
    — Paul Sutter, Space.com, 11 Feb. 2026
  • At the opposite end, the basement holds a gym and an infrared sauna.
    — Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 5 Mar. 2026
  • The three videos released by the Navy were filmed by infrared cameras.
    — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2021
  • With infrared light, hair dries from the inside out instead of the other way around.
    — Bianca Salonga, Forbes, 7 July 2021
  • Take pulse oximeters, which use red and infrared light to measure blood oxygen.
    — Victoria Song, The Verge, 18 Mar. 2023
  • The brand pairs red and near-infrared light for aging concerns and blue light for breakouts.
    — Christa Joanna Lee, Allure, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Peer through the device’s viewfinder while scanning the room with its infrared light.
    — Stack Commerce, Popular Science, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Sauna, body scrubs, and endless infrared light therapy sounds like a dream.
    — Essence, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The idea would be to take a blood sample from a patient and expose it to a very short infrared pulse.
    — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Poles fitted with infrared laser readers stand in the corners.
    — ABC News, 11 May 2026
  • Roman will pair a large field of view with crisp infrared vision to survey deep, vast swaths of sky.
    — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 June 2026

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