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an optical device that produces an intense monochromatic beam of coherent light- The nightclub has a laser light show.
- We use a laser for precise cutting.
- "In exactly twenty minutes, this laser beam will blow up the moon and send huge chunks of it crashing down upon every major city in the world!" laughed Dr. Diaper.Dav Pilkey -- Captain Underpants (# 1)
- a laser beam carrying heavy power works best in vacuumRobert A. Heinlein -- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
- The NS laser, with modifications, has been standard police issue since 2023.J.D. Robb -- Naked in Death
- The Laser-Matic 2000 blew up, tearing apart the old warehouse.Dav Pilkey -- Captain Underpants (# 1)
- You destroyed my Laser-Matic 2000.Dav Pilkey -- Captain Underpants (# 1)
- The huge laser beam turned off, and pieces of the machine began flying off in all directions.Dav Pilkey -- Captain Underpants (# 1)
- Heavy gears began shifting and spinning, and a laser beam from the crystal shot straight up through a hole in the roof.Dav Pilkey -- Captain Underpants (# 1)
- So George, Harold, and Captain Underpants frantically looked all over the Laser-Matic 2000, searching for a way to shut it down and stop the inevitable disaster.Dav Pilkey -- Captain Underpants (# 1)
- I summon all my own strength, focus it like a laser beam into the fingers and palm of my right hand.Gayle Forman -- If I Stay
- Some of the men wore night-vision headsets and all of them bristled with weapons—compact machine guns, laser-sighted pistols, combat knives.Ransom Riggs -- Hollow City
- Then he turned off the lights and took out a laser pointer.Jodi Picoult -- Nineteen Minutes
- There's a catalogue, put together by Charna, a professional-looking computer-and-laser-printer affair.Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
- She looks at me with those laser beam eyes of hers.Gayle Forman -- Where She Went
- For a minute she simply stares at the name centered at the top of the résumé, laser-printed in an elegant font.Jhumpa Lahiri -- The Namesake
- "There's a laser machine.Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl -- Beautiful Creatures
- Then he saw the eyes and the barrel of the gun, three dark orbs zeroed in on him like black laser beams.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity
- Argon brushed past Foaly, pressing a laser disk into the console's player.Eoin Colfer -- Artemis Fowl
- There were virtual-reality suits with working laser guns.Rick Riordan -- The Lightning Thief
laser = a device that concentrates intense light on a small spot
laser = an optical device that produces an intense monochromatic beam of coherent light
laser = an optical device that produces an intense beam of light
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