Larger glass spheres can be used as fillers for cement.

Laser marking of plastic-encapsulated packages may damage the chip if glass spheres in the packaging line up and direct the laser to the chip.

The aquatic specimens were to be enclosed in glass spheres which could be viewed from above and below.

A number of the designs of the glass spheres are unique to the town.

They have been produced in microscopic glass spheres or toruses, for example, with applications in lasing, optomechanical cooling, frequency comb generation and sensing.