How to Use radiation in a Sentence

radiation

noun

• He goes in for radiation next week.
• She was exposed to high levels of radiation.
• The loss has triggered a radiation alert for large parts of the vast state.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 31 Jan. 2023
• The forest is so named because radiation killed the trees and turned their bark red.
  — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 3 May 2023
• This event looms large in the minds of many who are now wary of further radiation exposure in the area.
  — Devika Rao, The Week, 7 July 2023
• The flare also produced a mass of CME, which is a cloud of plasma and radiation.
  — Anthony Franze, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Oct. 2024
• In that column, the man with prostate cancer could not get any more radiation.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 13 Apr. 2023
• Going there every day for weeks and weeks of radiation felt like a warm hug.
  — George Kolasa As Told To Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 9 Aug. 2023
• The hot oven emits thermal radiation and the potato absorbs most of it.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 25 Aug. 2023
• Even elsewhere in the Milky Way, at greater distances, the radiation could still sterilize half of all life on Earth.
  — Max Bennett, Discover Magazine, 18 Mar. 2024
• At the same time, the crew will conduct its own research on the effects of spaceflight and space radiation on human health.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 6 May 2024
• The slightly more distant Europa lies in the clutches of Jupiter’s radiation and tides, too.
  — Nola Taylor Tillman, Scientific American, 24 Apr. 2023
• Then, a rodent study in 2016 concluded that the radiation emitted by the devices caused cancer in the brains and adrenal glands of mice and rats.
  — Michael Franco, New Atlas, 4 Sep. 2024
• The scientists were aware radiation could be harmful, but at the time the link to cancer had yet to be established.
  — Maria Elena Salinas, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2023
• In Ukraine, one of the six nuclear reactors in the line of fire on the Dnipro River could be hit by artillery and spew radiation.
  — David E. Sanger, New York Times, 15 May 2024
• Aerosols can both absorb and scatter radiation from the sun.
  — Kasha Patel, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Jan. 2023
• To bolster their confidence in the finding, the team scoured the tree rings for a telltale sign that aids in dating: a spike in stellar radiation called a Miyake event.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Oct. 2023
• More than 1,800 people in the area were exposed to harmful radiation.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 20 Mar. 2023
• The sun produced an X9 solar flare — a sudden and intense burst of radiation from the sun — on Oct. 3, the biggest of Solar Cycle 25 so far.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
• Men in the monitoring group had regular blood tests and some went on to have surgery or radiation.
  — Carla K. Johnson, Fortune Well, 12 Mar. 2023
• The package holding the capsule arrived in Perth on Jan. 16 and was stored in the licensed service provider's secure radiation store.
  — Tracey Harrington McCoy, Peoplemag, 1 Feb. 2023
• Most of the time, Householder took her baby and stepdaughter with her to the radiation treatments.
  — Alexandra Olson, Fortune, 13 May 2024
• The numbers were climbing on a radiation dosimeter as the minibus carried me deeper into the complex.
  — Tim Hornyak, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2023
• That's how other, stronger forms of radiation can cause cancer.
  — Kevin Cortez, Popular Mechanics, 17 Feb. 2023
• The spacecraft will also take early passes through the high radiation zone known as the South Atlantic Anomaly.
  — Michael Sheetz, CNBC, 17 Aug. 2024
• Mars also lacks a magnetic field and this exposes the surface to high levels of radiation from the Sun and from cosmic rays.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2023
• The Fantastic Four follows a group of friends who receive powers from a zap of cosmic radiation during a trip to space.
  — Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 28 July 2024
• This maximum is due to the amount of torque on the black hole generated by radiation emitted from the accretion disk and swallowed by the black hole.
  — Isaac Schultz / Gizmodo, Quartz, 23 May 2024
• Surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation were the standard.
  — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 24 Oct. 2024
• While Fischer is now cancer-free, last year The Office star underwent a lumpectomy to remove the tumor, followed by chemotherapy and radiation.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024