How to Use electrostatic in a Sentence

electrostatic

adjective
Definition of electrostaticnext
  • Just measure the window, cut the electrostatic film to size, and stick it on the glass.
    — Stephen Treffinger, House Beautiful, 14 Oct. 2013
  • An electrostatic charge works like a magnet to trap the floating menaces and attach them to the fibers.
    — Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2020
  • The Miofive comes with two 3M double stick pads and two electrostatic clear stickers.
    — Dallas News, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Austin Butler, the 30-year-old actor who plays Elvis, has bedroom eyes and cherubic lips and nails the king’s electrostatic moves.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 25 May 2022
  • Plus, the masks use electrostatic absorption, which means that rather than passing through the fiber, the particles are trapped.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 7 Jan. 2022
  • To grab any pet hair and dust bunnies before wet mopping, let the Braava loose in dry-sweeping mode for the electrostatic pad to pick up the debris.
    — Jamie Kim, Good Housekeeping, 16 Nov. 2022
  • To remove dust, use a microfiber cloth or electrostatic duster like a Swiffer duster.
    — Shannon Quimby, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Oct. 2023
  • There is also an electrostatic touch panel with a bright and sharp LCD output.
    — Douglas Helm, Popular Mechanics, 19 June 2022
  • To grab any pet hair and dust bunnies before wet mopping, let the Braava Jet M6 loose in dry-sweeping mode, so the electrostatic pad picks up the debris.
    — Lynn Redmile, Good Housekeeping, 27 Apr. 2022
  • The electric charge is a key part of the electrostatic interaction, the force between electric charges.
    — Rhett Allain, Wired, 28 Jan. 2022
  • The truth is that Shure’s electrostatic earphones win the prize of best in their class by default: no one else is doing anything as ambitious as this.
    — Vlad Savov, The Verge, 30 Apr. 2018
  • The goal is to send electrons close enough to atomic nuclei in a protein to feel an attractive electrostatic force.
    — Eric Hand, Science | AAAS, 23 Jan. 2020
  • Just as socks can stick together when pulled from the dryer, small particles will stick to the electrostatic properties of the mask.
    — Claire Bugos, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Aug. 2021
  • Your ears might receive a small electrostatic discharge from the earbuds.
    — Brittney McNamara, Teen Vogue, 10 Dec. 2018
  • Their fibers are pressed close together and have an electrostatic charge that attracts molecules to stick to the mask rather than passing through.
    — Dave Kolpack, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Feb. 2022
  • The airline bought 750 electrostatic sprayers to clean planes after every flight.
    — Roland Li, SFChronicle.com, 17 Oct. 2020
  • The energy blasts had barely even gotten the attention of the Springhawk's electrostatic shields, let alone strained them.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 26 Apr. 2021
  • The process involved the use of a Clorox Total 360 System, an electrostatic spraying unit used by hospitals and clinics.
    — NBC News, 6 Mar. 2020
  • Every night at closing, the lounges undergo an electrostatic spray to kill any germs on surfaces.
    — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 2 July 2020
  • When a train reaches the end of the line, crews will wipe down poles with disinfectant and use electrostatic foggers to spray disinfecting mist into the train cars.
    — Rachel Swan, SFChronicle.com, 27 May 2020
  • The latter version will also come with two extra sets of electrostatic carbon filters (the former comes with just one), an in-flight adapter, and an extra soft pouch.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 26 Apr. 2023
  • An electrostatic charge attracts particles and pushes them through filters in the ear pieces.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 30 Mar. 2022
  • This is thanks to an electrostatic charge and pleated design that attracts even the smallest particles.
    — Adria Greenhauff, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Apr. 2023
  • And at such small scales in the body, gravity ceases to matter; instead, microrobots must fight against the raging torrent of the bloodstream, and confront the push and pull of electrostatic forces.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 6 June 2021
  • The study of how electrostatic forces affect living things in an ecosystem is known as electric ecology.
    — Oliver Whang, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2022
  • The spokes may be caused by electrostatic charges within the rings, but their nature remains mysterious.
    — Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 24 Feb. 2016
  • A fan sucks air into the elegantly-curved base-station, where it is drawn through an electrostatic filter.
    — Charlie Sorrel, WIRED, 5 Aug. 2011
  • However, the electrostatic charge is effective at grabbing particles of all sizes out of the air.
    — Aaron Steckelberg, Bonnie Berkowitz, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Others raised their phones and recorded the electrostatic cabaret: incessant purple bolts splintering the sky for hours.
    — James Ross Gardner, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2020
  • Soft, lightweight, and flexible flaps use electrostatic forces to pick up a fragile object.
    — David Berreby, National Geographic, 18 Aug. 2020

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