refracting
- present participle of refract.
Example Sentences
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Mr. Self has great fun refracting the details of who did what to whom and where.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
Democritus believed that light refracting through atoms caused the phenomenon that we perceive and describe conventionally, or by mutual agreement, as color.
From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2024
Smartphones can act as anxiety incubators, amplifying the sense of abundant possibility like a prism refracting light.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2024
Low-lying clouds and precipitation, they realized, were refracting echoes from the shoreline back to the radar, much as a glass lens bends the path of visible light.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 17, 2023
Which it did, there was no denying it, the spotty dark glass shattered like a kaleidoscope and refracting the room into a hundred pieces.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
