How to Use reflector in a Sentence
reflector
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Ride a scooter a night with a front light and a red reflector to the rear.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2019
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The point of those reflectors was to measure that drift.
—Philip Bump, Washington Post, 18 July 2017
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Bare walls and floors of stone or wood are all sound reflectors.
—Jennifer Adams, Philly.com, 21 Sep. 2017
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The rear reflector and other parts of the sled’s backend are crushed.
—Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 7 Mar. 2023
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Once dry, remove the reflectors from the mold and insert a screw eye into the top of each.
—Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Dec. 2023
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Each Osmo starter kit comes with a base and a reflector.
—Nikita Charuza, Peoplemag, 17 Nov. 2023
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The man wore a helmet and his bike had a flashing rear reflector.
—Jeff Piorkowski/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 27 Oct. 2017
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Sensors at road level shoot beams of light across the road, to a reflector.
—Christopher Intagliata, Scientific American, 25 Feb. 2022
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There was a reflector on the back of the bike, authorities said.
—Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 20 Sep. 2017
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This has the five colors that every reflector has and can be folded up and put in a case.
—Chris Hachey, BGR, 5 May 2021
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The event will discuss safety tips and hand out safety reflectors to keep children safe as the walk the streets in the evening hours.
—Tracy Maness, Houston Chronicle, 29 Oct. 2019
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More than a big dish While the sheer scale of the main dish at Arecibo grabbed the most attention, the dish was purely a reflector.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 19 Nov. 2020
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There are side reflectors, front and rear LED lights, and turn signals to ensure riders are seen on the road.
—Kevin Brouillard, Travel + Leisure, 9 Feb. 2024
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Tie fishing line to the hooks and suspend the reflectors from a metal ring at varying heights.
—Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Dec. 2023
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Have a front light and red rear reflector when riding at night as required by law.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2019
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Q On the positive side, Botts’ Dots are great reflectors at night.
—Gary Richards, The Mercury News, 8 Feb. 2017
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The sound hit the parabolic reflector in the ceiling and bounced back down to the audience.
—Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 4 Jan. 2022
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The soft light came from a white reflector bouncing sunlight.
—Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2022
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At the rear, there's now a thin LED lighting strip connecting the taillights, along with a new skid plate and reflector.
—Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 3 June 2020
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On the positive side, Botts’ Dots are great reflectors at night.
—Gary Richards, The Mercury News, 8 Feb. 2017
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Peel tried to jump a fire hydrant, and instead crashed into the doors of a Duane Reade, causing a reflector to fly off his rear wheel.
—Adam Iscoe, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
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An auxiliary cable broke in August and tore a 100-foot hole in the reflector dish and damaged the dome above it.
—Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 20 Nov. 2020
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It was butted against a massive slab of granite that grew out of the soil and provided a windbreak and heat reflector.
—Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 17 July 2019
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The solar stove has folded reflectors that use the sun to generate heat when opened.
—Tainaya Nash, House Beautiful, 15 July 2019
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The bicycles were equipped with reflectors but no lights.
—Nick Powell, Houston Chronicle, 5 June 2018
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On your seat, mount a flat repair kit, blinking red light and an LED red/orange light and reflector.
—Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 5 June 2019
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Then a small cap below the rear reflector has to be unfolded and slid into the saddle tube to secure the seat post.
—Thomas Ricker, The Verge, 29 July 2019
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Biomass mission will send a 39-foot radar reflector into orbit to measure the state of our world’s forests.
—Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 26 Aug. 2022
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Its burrow was flagged with a reflector so Hicks could put it back exactly where it had been found.
—Elizabeth Miller/undark, Popular Science, 11 Jan. 2020
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The next big step came the very next day, when the telescope’s secondary mirror—a much smaller .74 m (2.4 ft.) reflector—was deployed.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 7 Jan. 2022
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