emit light

Example Sentences

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In privacy mode, the device dims those wide pixels, while the narrow pixels emit light only at your face.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026

When those electrons snap back, they emit light that carries detailed information about how electrons and even atomic nuclei move.

From Science Daily • Jan. 5, 2026

Direct detection has not been possible because dark matter particles do not interact with electromagnetic force -- meaning they do not absorb, reflect or emit light.

From Science Daily • Nov. 29, 2025

Those headlights, on the ends of two of its arms, are more properly called photophores - organs that react a mix of substances with oxygen to emit light.

From BBC • May 16, 2024

As Divine truth is light in the heavens, so all truths wherever they are, whether within an angel or outside of him, or whether within the heavens or outside of them, emit light.

From Heaven and its Wonders and Hell by Ager, John