How to Use dark energy in a Sentence

dark energy

noun
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  • Nico and her purple eyes and the dark energy of the staff?
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Those with tons of dark energy might be cat’s-eyes, and so on.
    — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The rest of us will relish its dark energy and brute force, along with the jagged rhythms of its prose.
    — Gabriel Krauze, Star Tribune, 2 July 2021
  • Child-size carts sometimes bring a dark energy to the aisles, though.
    — Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2020
  • That means that the amount of total dark energy changes over time.
    — Don Lincoln, CNN, 3 June 2021
  • The show also thrums with the dark energy of New York City at a turning point.
    — Adam Kirsch, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2021
  • In the present day, dark energy makes up 68% of the matter and energy of the universe.
    — Don Lincoln, CNN, 3 June 2021
  • The Webb will search out the first stars and galaxies to have formed in the universe, but is not designed for dark energy.
    — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2018
  • At first blush, black holes and dark energy seem to have nothing to do with each other.
    — Byadam Mann, science.org, 13 Feb. 2023
  • But that dark energy gave rise to a great music and art movement.
    — Lauren Sloss, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2020
  • The fate of the universe, as well as the nature of physics, scientists say, depends on the nature of this dark energy.
    — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2018
  • In that case, dark energy might be the work of something called quintessence.
    — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2021
  • Yes, there might have been dark matter and dark energy present as well, even at these early stages.
    — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
  • If this value were the true strength of dark energy, space would be ballooning much, much faster.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 24 Apr. 2023
  • From the start Moll is vibrating with so much dark energy if feels like the slightest rip will tear her wide and send her demons screaming from the void.
    — Barbara Vandenburgh, azcentral, 17 May 2018
  • There’s so much space that dark energy makes up 70% of everything.
    — Quanta Magazine, 3 Dec. 2021
  • The shape of that future depends on how dark energy behaves.
    — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 13 Aug. 2022
  • At stake is the standard theory of the cosmos that has reigned since the discovery of dark energy.
    — Quanta Magazine, 8 Aug. 2019
  • At present there is no solution to the dark energy problem.
    — Stephon Alexander, Wired, 31 Aug. 2021
  • And dark matter and dark energy are key features of the standard model.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 18 July 2018
  • Guy and his colleagues hope to shed light on what dark energy really is.
    — Ramin Skibba, Wired, 13 Jan. 2022
  • If dark energy strengthens, the Universe could rip apart.
    — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 17 June 2021
  • The main objective of DESI is to reveal more about the dark energy found throughout the universe.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 18 Jan. 2022
  • These matter more, and hence are far more real, than wave functions or dark energy.
    — John Horgan, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Even the animals that men killed for food came back to life before they could be eaten, their flesh writhing and pulsing with a dark energy.
    — Keri Blakinger, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2023
  • It's designed to map the Milky Way, explore dark energy and dark matter, and survey the solar system.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 8 Sep. 2020
  • Up until now, researchers have been able to track dark energy’s effects up to about 9 billion years ago.
    — Chelsea Gohd, Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2019
  • SpaceX is set to launch a high-profile European space telescope to study dark energy.
    — USA TODAY, 5 July 2023
  • The event demanded an all-black dress code, matching both the album’s dark energy and, incidentally, the stormy night.
    — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2024
  • If the volume of the universe increases, then the total energy stored in dark energy increases as well.
    — Janna Levin, Quanta Magazine, 29 Aug. 2024

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