How to Use atomize in a Sentence

atomize

verb

• Had the plane been at 8,000 feet when the dump occurred, the fuel would never have hit the schools because it would be atomized after leaving the wings, Soucie said.
  — Faith Karimi, CNN, 16 Jan. 2020
• The whole building, this vestige of bohemian Greenwich Village, might be atomized before the end of the year.
  — Mary Kaye Schilling, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2017
• The video replay has been argued about, slow-mo’d, super-slow-mo’d, atomized and picked apart with Zapruder-like focus.
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 5 July 2017
• More value has been created by atomizing sports rights than by selling more at once.
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Apr. 2023
• The advent of streaming atomized the entertainment and media ecosystem in a way that can suck for audiences.
  — Kate Knibbs, Wired, 3 Mar. 2020
• The faucets atomize water, breaking it into a fine mist that still comes out fast enough to clean hands, allowing lavatory-goers to use some 90 percent less.
  — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 30 May 2018
• The decline of the theme song is another example of how fragmented and atomized our culture has become.
  — Christopher J. Scalia, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2019
• After choosing a scent—mine was Coromandel—the fragrance was atomized into the treatment room prior to my arrival.
  — Sunhee Grinnell, Vanities, 7 June 2017
• This kind of local arrangement wouldn’t work in a larger or more atomized community.
  — Longreads, 16 Feb. 2018
• The showerhead atomizes water into millions of droplets, each with more surface area than a regular drop of shower water.
  — Megan Friedman, Popular Mechanics, 11 Aug. 2015
• Patel is clearly studied in action cinema, as evidenced by the long takes in which Kid atomizes one attacker after the next.
  — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 12 Mar. 2024
• Almost half the novel is devoted to a fascinating reenactment of an average week behind the scenes — from pitch meeting to after-show drinks — sometimes atomized right down to the minute.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2023
• Tweets are, by the platform’s very nature, succinct, atomized, and imminently shareable.
  — Adrienne Lafrance, The Atlantic, 23 May 2017
• Giesea, Cernovich, and Posobiec’s effort is notable as one of the first forays of the mostly atomized, online pro-Trump movement into standard electoral politics.
  — Rosie Gray, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2017
• What Americans often fail to imagine is the price of silent disagreement, of thinking differently in a society so atomized that all that holds it together is the fear of and anger at its enemies.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 15 June 2023
• Ultrasonic humidifiers have a small diaphragm that vibrates fast enough to atomize the water before misting it into the air.
  — Chicago Tribune, 17 Jan. 2023
• In their place, the idol of self will rule all, until nothing of our society is left but atomized individuals, self-righteously seeking to destroy everyone who gets in their way.
  — Ben Shapiro, National Review, 20 Sep. 2017
• In a coaxial-swirl injector, the liquid fuels come into the chamber as two rotating liquid sheets, and as the sheets collide, they're atomized to create a propellant that combusts.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Nov. 2021
• There are brief bursts of Technicolor film scoring, atomized single-note tapestries, a conga line, a soft-edged funeral march and much more, each of which takes the stage for a few seconds before disappearing again.
  — Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 May 2018
• On the apps, music is atomized into bits, stripped of biography, history, and iconography.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
• Finally, even under the theocracy, Iranian civil society has flourished, and it has not been atomized as its counterparts were by the dictators who long ruled Iraq and Libya.
  — Eric S. Edelman, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2020
• Think of the functions that take place within financial-services institutions as being sort of decomposed or atomized, and then re-solved in a new way using technology.
  — WSJ, 13 June 2017
• The greater the injection pressure, the more finely the injection system atomizes the fuel, thus permitting even more efficient combustion, according to Bosch.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 19 Sep. 2006
• In this case, federal officials said the fuel dumping procedure did not occur at the optimal altitude that would have allowed the fuel to atomize properly.
  — Faith Karimi, CNN, 16 Jan. 2020
• Amateurs are flooding the internet; piracy has addled the once-dominant studios; production has atomized and scattered.
  — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 5 May 2018
• This collapse in social capital left the American people isolated, atomized, and lonely.
  — Tanner Greer, National Review, 17 Mar. 2020
• Today’s infinite-channel universe has atomized the TV audience, as has the tribal nature of the internet, partisan podcasts and fragmentation of the media in general.
  — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2023
• Modified intake ports and new, higher-pressure fuel injectors enhance fuel delivery to the cylinders and better atomize the gas for higher efficiency and torque.
  — Jeff Yip, Houston Chronicle, 23 June 2018
• In this emergency situation, the fuel-dumping procedure did not occur at an optimal altitude that would have allowed the fuel to atomize properly.
  — Alan Levin, Bloomberg.com, 7 May 2020
• Edmund, Gloucester’s scheming illegitimate son, is the most punishing role of all, a high-lying tenor part featuring music of atomizing intensity.
  — Matthew Aucoin, The New York Review of Books, 7 Dec. 2019

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024