How to Use laser beam in a Sentence

laser beam

noun
  • That is, how many razor blades a laser beam could cut through at one time.
    — New Atlas, 17 Jan. 2026
  • After each win, a buzzer sounds and a 300-watt laser beam is launched.
    — Bob Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Imagine keeping a laser beam trained on a dime that’s 200 miles away.
    — Panagiotis Tsiotras, Discover Magazine, 20 June 2024
  • The airship was struck three times by a green laser beam, according to the complaint.
    — City News Service, Daily News, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Shining a laser beam into the resin, for instance, cures it along the entire laser path.
    — Tracy H. Schloemer, IEEE Spectrum, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Sophie is a laser beam of drive and dedication.
    — Heide Janssen, Oc Register, 15 Mar. 2026
  • To do that, astronomers create a laser guide star by firing a yellow laser beam through a telescope.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 May 2021
  • The researchers used high-speed cameras and a laser beam to study how air particles dispersed in the air in real-time.
    — New Atlas, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Simple optics spread the laser beam to illuminate a wide swathe in front of the vehicle.
    — Mark Harris, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Nov. 2016
  • Like its bigger brothers, the new system works by focusing a laser beam on a distant target, like a drone.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 20 June 2026
  • By detecting those tiny movements, researchers can calculate the force of the laser beam and its power.
    — John Loeffler, Space.com, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The laser beam seems to be drifting away from the target area, reducing power delivered.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Dust and sandstorms have disrupted optical tracking, weakened the laser beam and caused wear on its optics.
    — Amir Daftari, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The orbiting craft also either fires a 10-megawatt laser beam at the retreating probe, or aligns a laser fired from the ground at it.
    — Ramin Skibba, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The researchers produced a new estimate of the age of the Argyle rocks using a laser beam that was finer than a hair’s width.
    — Maya Wei-Haas, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Life is good in the land of the laser beam, but head coach Mike Brown’s defensive wizardry isn’t always evident.
    — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Any of these can scatter the laser beam, subsequently dropping its effectiveness against a target.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 20 June 2026
  • The two states of the ion correspond to two orientations of this magnet, say up and down, and they can be set by hitting the ion with a laser beam thinner than a human hair.
    — Katherine Wright, Scientific American, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The researchers focused an ultraviolet laser beam onto one specific point on the nanotube.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 27 Dec. 2025
  • This technique reflects a laser beam off a distant mirror creating an interference pattern that depends on the distance and any changes in it.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2024
  • And rather than writing one data dot at a time, the scientists developed a system that splits the laser beam to write many dots simultaneously.
    — New Atlas, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Lorde's Nashville concert basks in rebirth Lorde walked onto the stage, sauntering down a catwalk as synths pulsed and a white laser beam shined her way.
    — Audrey Gibbs, Nashville Tennessean, 21 Sep. 2025
  • In that case, the crests and troughs of the laser beam waves will meet in the measuring device in a staggered manner, producing a different intensity.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 1 May 2023
  • In that case, the crests and troughs of the laser beam waves will meet in the measuring device in a staggered manner, producing a different intensity.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 1 May 2023
  • This was essentially a copy of the main laser beam, used as a sensitive probe to detect tiny fluctuations that the main system couldn’t easily see.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 19 Apr. 2026
  • The eye care professional then shines a laser beam into the patient’s eye to activate the drug in the new abnormal blood vessels, while sparing normal ones.
    — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 5 Dec. 2024
  • It is activated from outside the body using a near-infrared laser beam, which can safely pass through human tissue to trigger the spring mechanism.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Because the laser beam is extremely narrow, multiple laser links can reuse the same wavelength without interference, as long as their beams do not cross paths.
    — Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 30 Mar. 2026
  • This technique involves a bath of sticky, goopy resin sitting in a glass tank that’s uncured; a UV laser beam and multiple mirrors cure one layer at a time.
    — Charlotte Hu, Popular Science, 27 Nov. 2025
  • Back-end optics—light-focusing lenses, tracking sensors, fast-steering mirrors and other components—fine-tune the laser beam.
    — Adam Bluestein, Scientific American, 5 Apr. 2026

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