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 deaths were due to the earthquake and floods; zero deaths were due to radiation.
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 27 July 2022
• 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 longer the soil was exposed to punishing cosmic radiation and solar wind on the moon, the worse the plants seemed to do.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 13 May 2022
• 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
• When cooking on a stovetop, there is much less radiation and most of the cooking is done where the food is in direct contact with the pan.
  — Kristine Nolin, The Conversation, 3 June 2022
• Like the ants in Them!, these creatures were often caused by radiation.
  — Salama Udaipurwala, JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2024
• This showcased how radiation from space is likely to kill off any amino acids near the surface of the planet.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 28 June 2022
• 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
• The method worked despite the fact that PVC does not absorb microwave radiation.
  — Michael Franco, New Atlas, 31 Dec. 2024
• 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
• And because only one of the pair interact with the sample, the radiation dose is lower too.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 17 Dec. 2024
• Both types of radiation can increase your risk of skin cancer.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 6 May 2022
• This runaway growth gets cut off because the gas that feeds it is eventually driven off by the radiation of the young star.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 6 Apr. 2022
• One CT scan can expose a patient to 10 or 15 times as much radiation as another, Smith-Bindman said.
  — Joanne Kenen, NBC News, 8 Mar. 2025
• Nestled within denser parts of the clouds, the water would have been protected from being destroyed by harsh radiation from nearby stars, Latif said.
  — Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 12 Mar. 2025