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
  • The point of those reflectors was to measure that drift.
    — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 18 July 2017
  • Bare walls and floors of stone or wood are all sound reflectors.
    — Jennifer Adams, Philly.com, 21 Sep. 2017
  • The rear reflector and other parts of the sled’s backend are crushed.
    — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 7 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • Each Osmo starter kit comes with a base and a reflector.
    — Nikita Charuza, Peoplemag, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The man wore a helmet and his bike had a flashing rear reflector.
    — Jeff Piorkowski/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Sensors at road level shoot beams of light across the road, to a reflector.
    — Christopher Intagliata, Scientific American, 25 Feb. 2022
  • There was a reflector on the back of the bike, authorities said.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 20 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Have a front light and red rear reflector when riding at night as required by law.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2019
  • Q On the positive side, Botts’ Dots are great reflectors at night.
    — Gary Richards, The Mercury News, 8 Feb. 2017
  • The sound hit the parabolic reflector in the ceiling and bounced back down to the audience.
    — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 4 Jan. 2022
  • The soft light came from a white reflector bouncing sunlight.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • On the positive side, Botts’ Dots are great reflectors at night.
    — Gary Richards, The Mercury News, 8 Feb. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The solar stove has folded reflectors that use the sun to generate heat when opened.
    — Tainaya Nash, House Beautiful, 15 July 2019
  • The bicycles were equipped with reflectors but no lights.
    — Nick Powell, Houston Chronicle, 5 June 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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