How to Use infrared in a Sentence

infrared

adjective
  • From the infrared sauna to the cedar plunge pool, recharge with canyon views and faint ocean sprays.
    — Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 2 Nov. 2024
  • But an infrared camera can pick up things from heat in the dark.
    — The Conversation, Fortune, 6 Feb. 2023
  • An infrared camera is being used in the search from the air.
    — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 18 June 2021
  • Four infrared LEDs provide up to 30 feet of black-and-white night video.
    — PC Magazine, 28 Apr. 2025
  • The three videos released by the Navy were filmed by infrared cameras.
    — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2021
  • The nearly 12-foot optical and infrared telescope is one of the largest in the world.
    — Greta Cross, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2025
  • The idea would be to take a blood sample from a patient and expose it to a very short infrared pulse.
    — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Spitzer’s infrared swirls of dust and gas clouds are portrayed by a piano.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Nov. 2023
  • But until now, no building films could do the same for mid-infrared heat.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The infrared light generates heat that is then transferred to the hair, says George.
    — Allure Editors, Allure, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Done properly, the infrared camera can show the cold and hot spots in the walls, ceilings, and floors.
    — Mark Philben, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Jan. 2022
  • Work out in your private gym and relax in an infrared sauna.
    — Allie Beth Allman & Associates, Dallas News, 23 July 2023
  • With infrared light, hair dries from the inside out instead of the other way around.
    — Bianca Salonga, Forbes, 7 July 2021
  • So if the target jams the radar, the missile switches to infrared guidance.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2021
  • Below, the top 9 infrared sauna blankets to reap the benefits of heat stress at home.
    — Talene Appleton, Men's Health, 8 Aug. 2023
  • One large whirl captured by an infrared camera shows a thin tendril snaking high above the rest of the flames.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2021
  • Even with infrared sensors, the team did not see movement.
    — New York Times, 12 Dec. 2021
  • The device is equipped with an infrared camera that measures the stress levels and overall health of the turf.
    — David Waldstein, New York Times, 20 June 2023
  • The 35-pound Javelin ranges as far as 2.5 miles under infrared guidance.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Peer through the device’s viewfinder while scanning the room with its infrared light.
    — Stack Commerce, Popular Science, 10 Oct. 2024
  • An infrared camera near the pen's point tracks your writing strokes.
    — Medea Giordano, Wired, 26 Sep. 2021
  • During the night, the researchers filmed the arachnids with an infrared camera.
    — Carolyn Wilke, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Elsewhere, there’s a gym and pool area with infrared saunas, and a restaurant and terrace set along the river.
    — Maresa Manara, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Aug. 2021
  • One used infrared light with a narrow bandwidth, and a second one with 70mm film.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The nebula is imaged here in infrared light by the James Webb Space Telescope.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The sunshield is both an infrared telescope’s only hope and its Achilles heel.
    — Quanta Magazine, 3 Dec. 2021
  • This careful search led Phan's team to a single object, a tiny dot in the infrared data.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 1 May 2025
  • Which is better: an infrared sauna blanket or a steam sauna?
    — Kiana Murden, Vogue, 30 Apr. 2025
  • As the leak wore on, video captured by an infrared camera showed clouds of oily gas blanketing the area.
    — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2022
  • The air temperature in an infrared sauna may be lower than in a sauna using a wood or electric stove.
    — Amber J. Tresca, Verywell Health, 1 May 2025

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