9 sentences with “beam”

You can point a beam of light at a prism to break it down into a rainbow.

In the beam of light shone the wicked little eyes of a raccoon that had dug a tunnel to get there.

There was a baling rope hanging from a beam.

Travis was holding a beam, while Mike was straining to get the lower end in place.

In the first, a powerful beam was directed at the tumor, usually five times a week for seven or eight weeks, until the cancer disappeared.

When it reached 30 centimetres, the tree managed to twist 90 degrees and began to grow horizontally, in the direction of the beam of light.

His conclusions leave no doubt: "They were exterminated by high-tech weapons, far superior to the laser beam," he states in his writings dated 1935.

Thus, the moth "illuminated" by the ultrasound beam tries to move away long before it appears as a target in the bat's brain. To counteract this liveliness of the moths, the bats have developed the hesitant trajectory, criss-crossed by capricious curves, untimely detours and incalculable removals.

The ultrasonic beam of a horseshoe-nosed bat, an ugly critter if ever there was one, has the power, scaled up, of an anti-aircraft searchlight. In a volume of hundreds of cubic metres of empty air, this little monster with wings like umbrellas and ears like eyes can clearly perceive the tiny speck of a moth, which it then tries to invite to a "business lunch" with the guest, like any other menu.