ray

[reɪ]

Definition:
1. A column of light (as from a beacon).
2. A branch of an umbel or an umbelliform inflorescence.
3. (mathematics) a straight line extending from a point.
4. A group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation.

Use 'ray' in a sentence:

1. It will only register on sophisticated X-ray equipment.
2. Passengers must pass through metal detectors, and their carry-on bags are put through X-ray machines.
3. Ray Bonner first relocated to Africa several years ago.
4. They can't tell till they X-ray.
5. Let's take an X-ray.
6. The sun's ultraviolet rays are responsible for both tanning and burning.
7. "Is there something else?" Ray queried as Helen stopped speaking.
8. The airline had not been searching unaccompanied baggage by hand, but only screening it on X-ray machines.
9. Ray changed his mind, claiming that he had been forced into confessing.
10. I had to go for an X-ray.
11. The hospital staff held off taking Rosenbaum in for an X-ray.
12. Ray is a complicated, moody man behind the joking front.
13. We put our bags into the X-ray machine for examination.
14. A spectrum is formed by a ray of light passing through a prism.
15. Ray and sister Renee lived just 25 miles apart from each other.
16. Ray was getting very hot and bothered about the idea.
17. The X-ray showed there was no break in his leg.
18. She was advised to have an abdominal X-ray.
19. Children should have glasses which filter out UV rays.
20. I suggested that he rest, and sent him for an X-ray.
21. Data acquisition realization of γ-ray CT teaching experiment instrument.
22. He has long felt that Ray was set up, that he was a patsy.
23. This was intended to exclude the direct rays of the sun.
24. They could provide a ray of hope amid the general business and economic gloom.
25. He climbed two floors to the X-ray room.
26. The sun's rays can penetrate water up to 10 feet.
27. Kiki and Man Ray, who lived just down the street, were habitués of this bar.
28. Ray was very giggly and joking all the time.
29. Ray Tomlinson is known as "the father of email".
30. Ray painted below the waterline with a special anti-rust paint.
31. Design and Realization of Embedded γ-ray Detection System Based on ARM.
32. This is Ray McCarthy with the news.
33. He had two X-ray burns on the back.
34. When the sun's rays hit the earth, a lot of the heat is reflected back into space.
35. The element was found using X-ray spectroscopy.
36. A clerk had slipped the wrong tab on Tony's X-ray.
37. The windows were shining in the reflected rays of the setting sun.
38. Arthur C. Clarke likes to quote his friend and fellow SF writer Ray Bradbury.
39. The whole family gathered together at Ray's home.
40. There was just one small ray of hope.
41. Ray wouldn't hurt a fly.
42. NASA plans to launch a satellite to study cosmic rays.
43. The trees form a natural protection from the sun's rays.
44. Ozone is best known for its role in screening the Earth from harmful ultraviolet rays from the Sun.
45. The ozone layer shields the earth from the sun's ultraviolet rays.
46. The ozone layer screens out dangerous rays from the sun.
47. A ray of sunlight thrust out through the clouds.
48. It can be seen clearly in a ray of sunlight or under a lamp.
49. The x-ray detectors feed the input into computer programs.
50. Electric rays stun their prey with huge electrical discharges.
51. Ray will earn his keep on local farms while studying.
52. The new Defence Minister is Senator Robert Ray.
53. Water is not an effective shield against the sun's more harmful rays.