How to Use black light in a Sentence

black light

noun
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  • According to the insect calendar, these creatures are highly active during hot summer nights and can be found with a black light at night.
    — Abigail Celaya, The Arizona Republic, 4 May 2024
  • Step 5: Test your black light box Turn the black light on, put a rock inside, and close it.
    — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Check out this schedule for black light mine tours in 2022.
    — Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Apr. 2022
  • There, in a dark room bathed in black light, man-smelling, stale with sweat and cologne, a show was about to begin.
    — New York Times, 12 May 2022
  • The groomers give glow-ups under a black light, and the judges must eliminate one team.
    — Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2021
  • The device stamps a small image of a hand that can be seen under a black light.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 28 Aug. 2019
  • See Fiona fairies, enjoy a black light puppet show and more.
    — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Use a black light to change up the look of the room and create fun, colorful changing lights.
    — Seventeen.com Editors, Seventeen, 1 Dec. 2022
  • The best way to find a leak is with ultraviolet dye and a black light.
    — Motormouth Bob Weber, Star Tribune, 30 July 2021
  • The group took the picture at the edge of a large white tent with a chandelier hanging on the top and behind a black light post.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 24 Nov. 2023
  • The mechanism that can make Europa's ice glow is a bit like what's used by a black light poster.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 10 Nov. 2020
  • To pull this off you’ll need black light bulbs, neon decorations and glow sticks of course.
    — Hannah Jeon, Good Housekeeping, 16 Nov. 2022
  • After driving for a day or two, shine a black light and the leak will show up iridescent green.
    — Motormouth Bob Weber, Star Tribune, 30 July 2021
  • The film’s candy collars begin to pull and blur, the scene acquiring the feel of a black light painting found in an ‘80s dorm room.
    — Ben Croll, Variety, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Mouse urine fluoresces in UV light, so shining a black light around can show where the rodents pee.
    — Adam Hadhazy, Popular Mechanics, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Also, the show uses special effects such as fog, haze, strobes and black lights.
    — Don Maines, Houston Chronicle, 28 Jan. 2020
  • At the end of the pampering session, a black light revealed glow-in-the-dark fingernails and makeup.
    — Allison Bagley, Houston Chronicle, 24 Jan. 2018
  • The details of Cynthia's glittery skull look only appear in the dark or under a black light.
    — Devon Abelman, Allure, 18 Oct. 2017
  • The Jingle and North Star options include black light keychain chargers to make the putty glow.
    — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Dec. 2017
  • Ruthie applied metallic Rub 'n Buff wax for golden accents on a mod all-black light.
    — Maria V. Charbonneaux, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Lippert, blond and bespectacled, flipped on a black light.
    — Adlan Jackson, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Looking at pretty shapes on the iPhone X will be the next best thing to sitting in front of a lava lamp in real life (read: in a mall store that also sells black lights).
    — Heather Schwedel, Slate Magazine, 12 Sep. 2017
  • The decor is Spartan, mostly some fluorescent paint and black lights.
    — Rene Rodriguez, miamiherald, 5 May 2018
  • The decor is Spartan, mostly some fluorescent paint and black lights.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 Feb. 2024
  • There's a ton to do in this North Houston getaway, including 18 holes of indoor black light mini golf.
    — Vicki Salemi, Chron, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Shortly after opening, Sky Zone Greenfield will offer glow evenings when the black lights will come on and shirts and balls will glow as kids and adults bounce to music.
    — Jane Ford-Stewart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 June 2018
  • But the newest innovation is the smiley in the center, which only shows up under black light.
    — Fortune, 13 Jan. 2018
  • Attendees will be given supplies to mix their own paint and create a black light painting.
    — Zipporah Osei, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • The space on the second floor (Suite 200) features a practice robot, which collects and shoots balls, but does not hit them back, and a table with lines and net that glow under black light.
    — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Yes, black light tattoos indeed glow — but only under black lights.
    — Devon Abelman, Allure, 21 Oct. 2020

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