How to Use soap bubble in a Sentence

soap bubble

noun
Definition of soap bubblenext
  • The Emory team isn’t the first to tackle the physics of soap bubbles.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2020
  • If there’s a gas leak, soap bubbles will form; if there's not, there won’t be any bubbles.
    — Brittany Anas, House Beautiful, 24 June 2023
  • For me, over the years, love had become an elusive soap bubble floating out of reach.
    — Ron Winters, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2022
  • These bubbles come in all forms, from soap bubbles to balloons.
    — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2023
  • Few of us have not paused at one time or another to marvel at the beauty of a soap bubble.
    — John Matson, Scientific American, 9 May 2013
  • Wave the wand slowly or blow on it to create giant soap bubbles.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 4 Feb. 2020
  • Thanks to notes of soap bubbles, rose, white musk, and coconut milk, the candle invites the lightness of spring to winter.
    — India Espy-Jones, Essence, 12 Dec. 2023
  • One example involves the skin of a soap bubble stretched over a surface.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The halo around U Cam is like a soap bubble: a thin shell that has a sharp edge but is probably mostly empty on the inside.
    — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 16 July 2012
  • Ever wonder what colors the surface of oily rain puddles and soap bubbles?
    — Andrew Wagner, Science | AAAS, 15 Sep. 2017
  • Over time the material slowed considerably, and what we're left with is this thin-shelled soap bubble in space.
    — Discover Magazine, 11 Dec. 2011
  • In the image above, this plant is being pollinated by a soap bubble that carries pollen.
    — Keith Ladzinski, National Geographic, 18 Nov. 2020
  • Bracken said of his events, which also include pillow fights and soap bubble battles.
    — Beth Spotswood, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Dec. 2017
  • The soap bubble of iridescent glamour popped suddenly in 2003 after Horn was attacked onstage by one of the tigers.
    — Christina Catherine Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2022
  • Shen and his team found a very complex set of fluid dynamics that govern how the soap bubbles form, evolve and eventually pop.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Powerful fans blow tiny soap bubbles into the audience by the thousands.
    — Wonbo Woo, WIRED, 12 June 2018
  • To honor and recognize children who have been taken from their parents, people blew soap bubbles, which floated away on the breeze.
    — Jeff Gammage, Philly.com, 1 June 2018
  • The glass virtuoso James Carpenter used slender steel cables to suspend an ultraclear wall — then the largest of its kind — that seemed to float like a soap bubble between the shops and the street.
    — Justin Davidson, Daily Intelligencer, 10 Jan. 2018
  • The machine blows perfectly spherical soap bubbles, one at a time, that drift down onto a field of buzzing and sparking electrified wire.
    — Sharon Mizota, latimes.com, 18 Sep. 2017
  • The hopes of the Vikings are as fleeting and ethereal as the snowflake-like soap bubbles that float down from the ceiling of the stadium before kickoff, giving the place a winter wonderland effect.
    — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2023
  • For instance, in 2016, French physicists worked out a theoretical model for the exact mechanism for how soap bubbles form when jets of air hit a soapy film.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 4 Feb. 2020
  • Theatre is ephemeral, but the idea of Broadway—a $1.8-billion industry and a major part of the city’s (and the country’s) artistic lifeblood—disappearing like a soap bubble was hard to fathom.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2020
  • Like the florid feathers of a male peacock or the shimmer of a soap bubble, these structures are iridescent, shining with different hues depending on the angle they’re viewed from.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Jan. 2020
  • Others, like Julia Manhire, stepped a little closer and giggled as Askew smiled, then enclosed her from head to shoulder inside a soap bubble.
    — Kenneth K. Lam, baltimoresun.com, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Young children can help you sort laundry, wash dishes (because playing with soap bubbles is FUN!), and even assist with meal preparation.
    — Eva Dwight, USA TODAY, 15 May 2018
  • In search of the perfect bubble Just two years ago, French physicists worked out a theoretical model for the exact mechanism for how soap bubbles form when jets of air hit a soapy film.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 Sep. 2018
  • Shinjuku Awawa is a giant soap bubble that reminds citizens to wash their hands properly.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 May 2021
  • Glossy black candlesticks by Aesa and shimmering Tom Dixon light fixtures suggest movement, as though they’ve just been blopped down on the table or, like soap bubbles, are wobbling through the air.
    — Eliza Brooke, Vox, 21 Dec. 2018
  • On a marble fortified against bottomless blackness by a shell of air and color, fragile and miraculous as a soap bubble.
    — New York Times, 24 Apr. 2020
  • More recently, French physicists in 2016 worked out a theoretical model for the exact mechanism for how soap bubbles form when jets of air hit a soapy film.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 16 May 2023

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