How to Use atomic in a Sentence

atomic

adjective

• Or the cut to the atomic-bomb explosions in Dr. Strangelove.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 22 Feb. 2021
• Get some wet wipes: The pretzel is an atomic shade of orange.
  — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 27 Mar. 2023
• In Dune, the Great Houses have signed a convention against the use of atomic weapons.
  — Andy Greenberg, Wired, 28 Sep. 2021
• That’s what the atomic clocks have been measuring since they were first used in 1973.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
• Or at least that’s what my own atomic childhood taught me.
  — Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic, 3 Mar. 2022
• It’s at least a hundred times more deadly than the atomic bombs dropped on Japan.
  — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 21 Apr. 2022
• The shah entered the atomic age standing on the shoulders of others.
  — Ray Takeyh, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2020
• Putting the eco-friendly stake in the ground is the first step; then there’s taking many, many atomic steps toward it.
  — Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 12 Nov. 2021
• In the summer of 1945, the Navy assembled a large fleet of ex-warships and dropped atomic bombs on them.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 19 May 2021
• Seed catalogues sold seeds brought to you by the best scientists of the atomic era.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2023
• Four days after his return, the United States dropped the first of two atomic bombs on Japan.
  — Ken Roberts, Forbes, 25 May 2021
• The eleventh, a set of atomic clocks in Munich, brings in a discussion of the morality of war.
  — Chad Orzel, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
• The bombing was the third time Iran’s atomic program had been targeted in less than a year.
  — Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2021
• In August of 1945, the world changed when the United States detonated the first atomic bombs in Japan.
  — Andrea King Collier, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Aug. 2020
• Asked if atomic bombs would ever be used in war again, Colonel Petrov pauses.
  — New York Times, 3 Aug. 2021
• At the opposite end of the scale, at the atomic level, biochemists have caught chance red-handed.
  — Sean B. Carroll, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2020
• By the time of the Cold War, its inner core was re-adapted as an atomic shelter behind a four-ton door.
  — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2022
• Quantum atomic clocks are an integral part of the search for dark matter in a key way.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2022
• My generation learned the atomic half-life of cesium-137.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2023
• The restless mass of the glacier, constantly on the move, regularly sent atomic blasts down the ridge.
  — Cassidy Randall, Rolling Stone, 2 Mar. 2025
• The area is made up of three giant bunches of cold atomic gas called molecular clouds.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 25 Jan. 2024
• Washington expects more atomic moves from Mr. Putin in the days ahead.
  — New York Times, 21 Mar. 2022
• Scientists began measuring the length of each day in the 1960s with the advent of atomic clocks.
  — Sarah Raza, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2022
• Some atoms, meanwhile, can act as atomic clocks, with their rate of decay noting the passage of time.
  — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2020
• And once the 1960s kicked off, the material offered the perfect structure and shine for the atomic looks of Courrèges.
  — Kristen Bateman, Vogue, 3 Dec. 2021
• Few had the training and orientation to be able to apply theories about atomic physics to the study of the stars.
  — Elizabeth Landau, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Mar. 2025
• At the atomic level, that's true—but hydrogen is never found in its pure state.
  — John Voelcker, Car and Driver, 26 Sep. 2022
• That is more than were killed during either of the two atomic bombings that August.
  — Paul Kennedy, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2021
• His grandfather’s cousin was killed in the atomic bombing.
  — National Geographic, 7 Aug. 2020
• The sites were intended to shoot down enemy bombers carrying atomic weapons.
  — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 27 Mar. 2025