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Ether in sentence

13 examples of Ether in a sentence

I have been able, through careful invention, to transmit, with the mere flick of a switch, electricity across the ether.
But even though, in its current form, in its traditional form, the idea of the soul is still hugely popular, nonetheless we are again reinventing it for the digital age, for example with the idea that you can leave your body behind by uploading your mind, your essence, the real you, onto a computer, and so live on as an avatar in the ether.
But few consumers are concerned to know where a particular typeface came from or when or who designed it, if, indeed, there was any human agency involved in its creation, if it didn't just sort of materialize out of the software ether.
In Western medicine, diethyl ether was the first common one.
Victorians thought the waves had to be waves in some material medium: the ether.
However, like a banana peel in a vaudeville act, this "Fantastic Four" sits out in the ether waiting to cause a pratfall for those rare people unlucky and foolish enough to step on it.
I mean, 10 years after I've seen it and I still give it some pause, whereas something that I might have seen 6 months ago has gone into the ether.
Various believable doctors try their best to pin a diagnose on her ether wanting to go with possession or latent massive depression.
Saddly, the acting and FX were not so great ether.
Serious magazines, general-interest journals, and newspapers traditionally filled the space between the ether of peer-reviewed journals and the deep sea of hoaxes; yet they all struggle to survive the digital revolution.
To be sure, street protests and a chaotic clamor of recrimination have gripped Pakistan, while dire threats float in the Internet ether and a bizarre indifference pervades the rest of the Muslim world.
He at once recognized a scent-bottle belonging to Madame Hennebeau, the little ether bottle which was always with her.
Then there was a row of phials containing dextrine, alcoholic ether, liquid acetate of lead, vinegar, and ammonia drugs which afforded me no comfort.