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
• In that movie, the fastest faster-than-light speed is called ludicrous speed.
  — Dave Vanderwerp, Car and Driver, 8 Dec. 2021
• 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
• And to Benee, who worked at light speed to make this happen and added some magic.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2023
• But even with scooters things are moving at near-light speed.
  — Ed Wallace, star-telegram, 22 June 2018
• The drone industry is evolving at light speed, our team alone is too small yet to keep pace with it.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Jan. 2023
• New research breaks down the ways our eyes would process an object moving at light speed.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 9 June 2020
• The future of Star Wars is coming to audiences at light speed.
  — Carson Burton, Variety, 26 May 2022
• So, grab your light saber, buckle up, charge the hyperdrive and prepare for light speed.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 4 May 2022
• But the biggest obstacle for FTL is the one kids learn in school: light speed is the galactic speed limit.
  — Kathryn Doyle, Popular Mechanics, 10 Jan. 2013
• My main question after listening to this one is whether reindeer can make the jump to light speed.
  — EW.com, 10 Dec. 2022
• Routines were changing at light speed for many of us back in the early pandemic days.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2021
• 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
• 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
• Liana’s Eastern European mall rat style runs (at lighting speed!) counter to my own.
  — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 22 Dec. 2017
• Every time Buzz attempts to rocket into light speed to get help back on Earth, something goes wrong.
  — Dallas News, 16 June 2022
• 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
• While the effects of a solar flare—a radio blackout—take just eight minutes to travel from the sun at light speed, the effects of CMEs take a few days to arrive.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• This means that the light speeds up by about less than one percent on entering material.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 21 Dec. 2018
• By historical standards, 12 to 18 months would be light speed.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2020
• What is known: Groups of six will pilot Han Solo’s fabled ship on a customized secret mission, shoot blasters, and jump to light speed.
  — Los Angeles Magazine, 20 Oct. 2017
• 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
• 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
• In South Africa, where the omicron variant was first identified before spreading at light speed around the world, self-isolation rules have been scrapped.
  — Fergal O'Brien, Tim Loh and James Paton, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Feb. 2022
• Our actual maximum operating rate of just 390 feet per second, or less than a millionth of light speed, is fast enough to do the job.
  — Bob Berman, Discover Magazine, 3 June 2014
• 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
• Just like Han Solo and Chewbacca prepping a course in light speed, Porsche software will plot out charging stations for a long-distance journey.
  — Mark Ewing, Forbes, 13 May 2021
• Starships will always jump to light speed and boldly go, but the franchising of outer space by the Marvels and the Disneys has pushed our more inventive creators inward.
  — Jason Kehe, WIRED, 9 July 2018
• The trade market happens to feature a superstar shortstop whose team is going nowhere at light speed: Manny Machado.
  — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 1 May 2018
• But the car is also low, maybe a bit hard to see, and has the unnerving ability to vanish and materialize in people’s mirrors, like a Smurf dropping out of light speed.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 12 June 2021

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024