ULTRAVIOLET in a Sentence

Learn ULTRAVIOLET from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
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1. The ozone layer surrounding the earth protects our skin from being hurt by the ultraviolet rays.
2. Glass is almost perfectly opaque to deep ultraviolet, which is why it's hard to get a tan through a window.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of ULTRAVIOLET
ultraviolet
 a.  having or employing wavelengths shorter than light but longer than X-rays; lying outside the visible spectrum at its violet end
 n.  radiation lying in the ultraviolet range; wave lengths shorter than light but longer than X rays
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1  Glass is almost perfectly opaque to deep ultraviolet, which is why it's hard to get a tan through a window.
2  The ozone layer surrounding the earth protects our skin from being hurt by the ultraviolet rays.