How to Use radio wave in a Sentence

radio wave

noun
  • The denser the atmosphere, the more the GPS radio wave bends.
    Eric Niiler, WIRED, 18 June 2019
  • The radio waves went flat, and the spacecraft fell silent.
    Bloomberg.com, 15 Sep. 2017
  • And then, the radio waves are certain to light up again.
    David Caraviello, ajc, 24 Sep. 2017
  • The team tracked the signals set out by the DSN and found a few stars that may have been hit by the radio waves.
    Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 4 May 2023
  • The stray electrons zip around Jupiter near the speed of light and release radio waves.
    Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 May 2024
  • Love could still drift in the air like music through radio waves.
    Richard Morgan, chicagotribune.com, 3 May 2018
  • But then how does sending out radio waves call the animals to the source of the signal?
    Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 16 Apr. 2018
  • The signal for phosphine is a radio wave with a wavelength of 1.123 mm.
    Rhett Allain, Wired, 26 Sep. 2020
  • The yellow streaks are jets of hot ionized gas, which emits radio waves.
    Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2024
  • This high-speed Wi-Fi is based on millimeter wave radio waves in the 60GHz range.
    Jacob Kastrenakes, The Verge, 16 Oct. 2018
  • The much dimmer pulsar does still give off radio waves.
    Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Nearly 2 weeks later, the source began to emit x-rays and radio waves.
    Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 16 Oct. 2017
  • New tools like radio wave scanners and AI photo apps can help.
    Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Popular Science, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Named for the absence of light and radio wave interference, the Dark Sector is home to all of the South Pole’s telescopes.
    Discover Magazine, 19 Dec. 2016
  • Capella’s satellites will use radio waves, rather than light, to create images of the surface of the Earth.
    The Economist, 15 June 2019
  • Indeed, Granger found that on days when radio waves from the sun are at their strongest, gray whales are four times more likely to strand.
    Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2020
  • The telescope can detect very faint radio waves given off by fine dust.
    Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 15 July 2019
  • Rain, fog and trees have long been the enemy of high-frequency radio waves.
    Margaret Talev, Bloomberg.com, 29 Jan. 2018
  • There's radio, radio waves all the way up to past the visible spectrum to gamma rays.
    WIRED, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Bluetooth is a kind of radio wave, and very similar to things like garage door openers.
    Bob Beacham, chicagotribune.com, 19 Sep. 2020
  • Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are millisecond-long bursts of radio waves in space.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 6 Jan. 2020
  • Alien hunters look for radio waves because humans are so fond of using them.
    Meghan Bartels, Newsweek, 1 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • The strength of the returning radio waves increased over that time, suggesting that new rock had formed since 1990, per NASA.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 May 2024
  • But radio waves move faster, which means a radio signal emitted from the source of an earthquake will reach a city seconds faster than the shakes.
    Meghan Bartels, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Sharma told Ghannouchi about his research and his work with radio waves.
    IEEE Spectrum, 24 Sep. 2023
  • The effect, first observed by J.B. Gunn in the early 1960s, produces short radio waves called microwaves.
    IEEE Spectrum, 28 May 2024
  • Astronomers will need powerful radio waves and a telescope to study it.
    Sarah Gray, Fortune, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Solar storms also alter how radio waves travel through the atmosphere and can mess with radar and radio communications.
    Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 3 June 2024
  • The Deep Space Network is a system of radio antennae on Earth that helps the agency communicate with spacecraft exploring our solar system and releases radio waves to act as radar across space.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 6 July 2024

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