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154 example sentences for RAY, such as:

1. The gun can fire invisible rays.
2. A ray illuminated Cosette's pale face.
3. But it was not long before this ray paled.
4. His countenance seemed to emit a ray of light.
5. A ray of sunshine, outline for you my all memory.

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 Meanings and Examples of RAY
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ray
 n.  one of a number of lines diverging from a point; a line of light or heat proceeding from a point
Classic Sentence: (134 in 9 pages)
1  But it was not long before this ray paled.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX—NEW TROUBLES
2  At the moment when Jean Valjean paused in front of the bed, this cloud parted, as though on purpose, and a ray of light, traversing the long window, suddenly illuminated the Bishop's pale face.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES
3  At the moment when the ray of moonlight superposed itself, so to speak, upon that inward radiance, the sleeping Bishop seemed as in a glory.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES
4  Great sorrow is a divine and terrible ray, which transfigures the unhappy.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
5  Madeleine's appearance every day as one awaits a ray of warmth and joy.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—SISTER SIMPLICE
6  But the shovel and pick had served as a ray of light to Boulatruelle; he had hastened to the thicket in the morning, and had found neither shovel nor pick.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WH...
7  A wan ray of the December sun penetrated the window of the attic and lay upon the ceiling in long threads of light and shade.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—A NEST FOR OWL AND A WARBLER
8  A ray of moonlight outlined his profile, and Jean Valjean recognized old Fauchelevent.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IX—THE MAN WITH THE BELL
9  His countenance seemed to emit a ray of light.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IX—THE MAN WITH THE BELL
10  A horizontal ray of sunshine lightly touched the face of the sleeping Cosette, who lay with her mouth vaguely open, and had the air of an angel drinking in the light.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVEN...
11  The dormer window permitted the entrance of a ray of moonlight between two blocks of shadow.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVII—THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE
12  As he had ceased to intercept Marius' visual ray, Marius could examine this thing, and in the daub, he actually did recognize a battle, a background of smoke, and a man carrying another man.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XX—THE TRAP
13  At his feet, on the table, a bright ray of light from the full moon illuminated and seemed to point out to him a sheet of paper.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XX—THE TRAP
14  A ray illuminated Cosette's pale face.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—TO ONE SADNESS OPPOSE A SADNESS AND A HALF
15  Contrary to what happens with every other vegetation, every ray of light which falls upon it kills whatever it touches.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—ROOTS
Example Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  An experimental development of this field is to use this ray that concentrates in malignant brain tumors.
2  A ray of sunlight illuminated every filament of the spider web, turning the web into a net of gold.
3  "Zap!" went Super Mario's atomic ray gun as he tried to vaporize another deadly foe.
4  A ray of sunshine, outline for you my all memory.
5  The oblique rays of the sun on the orchards create this typical landscape that traditional iconography would associate with an earthly paradise.
6  May the sun's rays shine brightest on you today with the wind at your heals.
7  Water is not an effective shield against the sun's more harmful rays.
8  If you focus the sun's rays on dry wood with a burning-glass, it will start burning.
9  If you focus the sun's rays through a magnifying glass on a dry leaf, it will start to burn.
10  He focused the sun's rays on a paper with a burning glass.
11  The gun can fire invisible rays.
12  Electric rays stun their prey with huge electrical discharges.
13  The ozone layer surrounding the earth protects our skin from being hurt by the ultraviolet rays.
14  The rays of the late sun slanted in streams through the cypress trees.
15  The shady trees provide protection against the burning rays of the sun.