How to Use light speed in a Sentence

light speed

noun
  • The closest such trip is still four years long at light speed.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Shep sighed and engaged the thrusters, revving the ship past light speed.
    — Sean McGowan, The New Yorker, 19 June 2024
  • But even with scooters things are moving at near-light speed.
    — Ed Wallace, star-telegram, 22 June 2018
  • Wrestlers pair off, practicing moves at light speed.
    — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2026
  • In that movie, the fastest faster-than-light speed is called ludicrous speed.
    — Dave Vanderwerp, Car and Driver, 8 Dec. 2021
  • New research breaks down the ways our eyes would process an object moving at light speed.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 9 June 2020
  • The drone industry is evolving at light speed, our team alone is too small yet to keep pace with it.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 20 May 2022
  • The drone industry is evolving at light speed, our team alone is too small yet to keep pace with it.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 20 May 2022
  • But at light speed, with a mass audience and a permanent record.
    — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
  • And to Benee, who worked at light speed to make this happen and added some magic.
    — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The stars stretched out into shimmering lines as the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy hit light speed.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 28 Aug. 2019
  • So, grab your light saber, buckle up, charge the hyperdrive and prepare for light speed.
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 4 May 2022
  • Routines were changing at light speed for many of us back in the early pandemic days.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2021
  • My main question after listening to this one is whether reindeer can make the jump to light speed.
    — EW.com, 10 Dec. 2022
  • This means that the light speeds up by about less than one percent on entering material.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 21 Dec. 2018
  • Solar flares travel at light speed and supercharge the solar wind but do not cause northern lights.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
  • The future of Star Wars is coming to audiences at light speed.
    — Carson Burton, Variety, 26 May 2022
  • Most of them really have more to do with societal trends than anything else, and the young tend to jump on trends at light speed.
    — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The static limit is the orbit where objects traveling at light speed against the black hole’s spin seem to stand still.
    — National Geographic, 11 Apr. 2017
  • There were light speed 7-on-7 drills to finish out the practice before sprinting up the practice field hill.
    — Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 11 May 2024
  • Even traveling at light speed, that data would take more than four years to arrive, a wait that no amount of technology can lessen.
    — Steve Nadis, Discover Magazine, 6 Oct. 2016
  • Every time Buzz attempts to rocket into light speed to get help back on Earth, something goes wrong.
    — Dallas News, 16 June 2022
  • All the good will Wells had cultivated over the years with customers, farmers, staff and others came back at light speed.
    — Kim Pierce, Dallas News, 5 May 2020
  • That being said, and with innovation in the tech space moving at light speed, franchisors need to evolve even faster to maintain their edge.
    — Chris Turcotte, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2021
  • By historical standards, 12 to 18 months would be light speed.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2020
  • Quakes rupture on a fault at the speed of sound through rock, which is slower than the light speed of today’s telecommunications systems.
    — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2024
  • This can continue — ping-ponging between competitors — until the ball is moving at light speed.
    — Luke Winkie, Vulture, 30 June 2021
  • Oh, just launch a reconnaissance probe into space at one percent of light speed to meet the San-Ti fleet halfway.
    — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Her character doesn’t make much of an impression but does get to do something really cool involving light speed near the two-hour mark.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 12 Dec. 2017
  • That meant a slow build-up of mileage and gradually working in light speed workouts over a two to three month period before the half marathon that marked his first race back.
    — Carl Leivers, Outside Online, 21 July 2021

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