Example Sentences

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At one point deep into the evening, one of Lupa’s actors, a spectrally thin Andrzej Klak, seizes on the occasion to blurt out a diatribe on dire current events.

From Washington Post • Jan. 6, 2023

“There is no other instrument that allows us to spectrally study such early galaxies,” said Khullar, who will continue his work as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pittsburgh.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 25, 2022

His bow tie, suspenders and owlish glasses compound his already unvigorous features and oatmeally complexion, and he’s spectrally thin, so the most common Kimball descriptor is “nerd.”

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2012

The EQE is a spectrally resolved photocurrent measured under zero external bias and represents the ratio of photocarriers collected by an external circuit to the number of incident photons at a given wavelength.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 15, 2011

The greyhound’s eyes, catching the candles as she watched him, burned spectrally, two amber cups of feral light.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White