How to Use radio wave in a Sentence

radio wave

noun
  • Love could still drift in the air like music through radio waves.
    — Richard Morgan, chicagotribune.com, 3 May 2018
  • Radars work by sending out radio waves.
    — Aaron Brynildson, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2026
  • The origin of the radio waves is more complex.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 2 June 2026
  • The yellow streaks are jets of hot ionized gas, which emits radio waves.
    — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2024
  • Alien hunters look for radio waves because humans are so fond of using them.
    — Meghan Bartels, Newsweek, 1 Mar. 2018
  • The telescope can detect very faint radio waves given off by fine dust.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 15 July 2019
  • Weather radar sends out pulses of radio waves and detects what bounces back.
    — Brandi D. Addison, The Providence Journal, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Weather radar sends out pulses of radio waves and detects what bounces back.
    — Brandi D. Addison, Nashville Tennessean, 26 Sep. 2025
  • And then there's all the stuff about the radio waves and TV static.
    — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 23 May 2026
  • But de Ruiter didn’t think the star would be able to produce radio waves by itself.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The stray electrons zip around Jupiter near the speed of light and release radio waves.
    — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 May 2024
  • Nearly 2 weeks later, the source began to emit x-rays and radio waves.
    — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 16 Oct. 2017
  • Seemingly overnight, the freestyle hit radio waves across the country.
    — Samantha Brown, NBC News, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Waves in the X-ray range have short wavelengths, while radio waves and microwaves are much longer.
    — Thomas Linker, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2025
  • But then how does sending out radio waves call the animals to the source of the signal?
    — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 16 Apr. 2018
  • New tools like radio wave scanners and AI photo apps can help.
    — Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Popular Science, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Bluetooth is a kind of radio wave, and very similar to things like garage door openers.
    — Bob Beacham, chicagotribune.com, 19 Sep. 2020
  • Rain, fog and trees have long been the enemy of high-frequency radio waves.
    — Margaret Talev, Bloomberg.com, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Wissel went on to explain that the radio waves should have been undetectable.
    — Nick Butler, FOXNews.com, 14 June 2025
  • Sharma told Ghannouchi about his research and his work with radio waves.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 24 Sep. 2023
  • Astronomers will need powerful radio waves and a telescope to study it.
    — Sarah Gray, Fortune, 19 Jan. 2018
  • There's radio, radio waves all the way up to past the visible spectrum to gamma rays.
    — WIRED, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The denser the atmosphere, the more the GPS radio wave bends.
    — Eric Niiler, WIRED, 18 June 2019
  • Quasars gobble up matter and shine brightly in many wavelengths of light, from radio waves to X-rays.
    — Amina Khan, latimes.com, 20 June 2018
  • Solar flares themselves produce radio waves, which can 'drown out' radio signals used on the ground.
    — Ryan French, Space.com, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Radar systems send out radio waves and then record any energy that is reflected back to their receivers.
    — Marta Hill, Scientific American, 13 May 2026
  • The system is impossible to jam with blasts of radio waves, a common counter-measure in the field.
    — Eleanor Beardsley, NPR, 12 Apr. 2025
  • Beneath the sea, visibility is low and the radio waves used for radar don’t travel far.
    — James Dwyer, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2026
  • However, there is a wavelength of radio waves that astronomers have found coming out of the darkness.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 1 Mar. 2018
  • And so pilots would hug the terrain, flying beneath the radio waves that would detect their presence.
    — Eric Adams, WIRED, 11 Apr. 2018

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