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 plume has been pushed away by the sun's radiation, not unlike the tail of a comet.
  — Ariana Garcia, Chron, 5 Oct. 2022
• 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
• Like the ants in Them!, these creatures were often caused by radiation.
  — Salama Udaipurwala, JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 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
• Oh, and this bunker is flooded with radiation that can mutate us.
  — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2024
• 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
• Russia and Ukraine accuse each other of shelling the plant and risking a radiation release.
  — E. Eduardo Castillo, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Dec. 2022
• 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
• But at what cost? Elevated radiation has been detected at a former Bay Area landfill turned art park.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2024
• This conclusion was reached thanks to new data about the accelerations of nearby pulsars—rapidly spinning neutron stars that emit beams of radiation that sweep out through space light the beacon of a lighthouse.
  — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 29 Dec 2024