How to Use radical in a Sentence

radical

1 of 2 adjective

• The new president has made some radical changes to the company.
• There are some radical differences between the two proposals.
• The computer has introduced radical innovations.
• The radical shift of the state GOP hasn’t come about overnight.
  — Adrian Walker, BostonGlobe.com, 20 May 2022
• Needling Biden as a pawn of the radical left won’t do it.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 22 Oct. 2020
• Time for some radical changes, first and foremost at the top.
  — WSJ, 15 Sep. 2022
• Here’s a radical idea: turn the top six into a top nine.
  — Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 12 Mar. 2021
• But a sweaty woman with a big gun—and a child—was radical.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2023
• What many of us don't know is that her life was just as radical as her work.
  — The Editors, Town & Country, 3 Nov. 2022
• The most timid Democrats in the world could adopt it without fear of sounding radical.
  — Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 11 Sep. 2020
• That would have been a truly radical way for Stills to go.
  — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 8 Aug. 2019
• In other words, no radical changes seem to be in the offing.
  — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2021
• Calls for radical changes to policing have been at the heart of months of racial justice protests.
  — oregonlive, 5 Jan. 2021
• Because Democrats don't want to be radical on the issue, most of them, some do.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 17 Sep. 2023
• The substance of his platform would have seemed radical just a few years ago.
  — I.k. | Washington, The Economist, 1 Aug. 2019
• There is a lot that’s sensible in her plan; not a lot that’s new and radical.
  — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2022
• From snug to substantial, the house presents radical shifts in scale.
  — Celia Barbour, House Beautiful, 13 Dec. 2016
• Critics always have to make the case that Austen was radical.
  — Lizzie Skurnick, New York Times, 14 July 2017
• Over the next 13 months, there will be radical change across all of your serious bonds.
  — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 28 Oct. 2018
• Public calls mounted for the court to make radical changes.
  — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Nov. 2021
• Putting your own story into the world is a radical act.
  — Kylie Groat, Seventeen, 1 May 2018
• But some of the changes our experts predict are less radical.
  — Brian Raftery, EW.com, 31 Mar. 2022
• Twenty-five years ago, a small group of San Diego women had a radical idea.
  — Barbara Bry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Nov. 2023
• To get anything done the radical has to commit evil acts for good causes.
  — David Brooks | Opinion, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Dec. 2017
• Believe it or not, that was considered a radical idea at the time!
  — Claire Shaffer, Rolling Stone, 31 July 2022
• Many balked at the idea, dismissing it as too radical, too raw.
  — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 30 May 2023
• The original mall was vacated and razed in 2020 to make way for the radical reimagining of the site.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 14 Feb. 2024
• Rick is obsessed with how their ideas are still very radical.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 29 Aug. 2021
• But few pop stars have gone in as radical a direction as André 3000, who stepped away from a chart-topping career.
  — Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Apr. 2024
• Yet, one by one, Superstar seduced them with this radical idea: that the DEA might bring about the largest narcotics eradication in history without firing a single bullet.
  — Patrick Winn, Rolling Stone, 13 Apr. 2024

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radical

2 of 2 noun

• He was a radical when he was young, but now he's much more moderate.
• In the ’20s and ’30s, there were millions of radicals in the United States.
  — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 27 July 2018
• Radicals from around the world flocked to Somalia to join in the fun.
  — Mark Moyar, The Atlantic, 14 May 2017
• But in the weeks since, the wild-haired radical has pedaled backward.
  — Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2023
• As in his Senate life, the Joe Biden of 2020 is no Democrat’s idea of a radical.
  — Matt Flegenheimer, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2020
• Right now, to my way of thinking, the Democrats are the radicals, because after four and five and six months.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 17 Sep. 2023
• The death toll from the bombings—the work of Islamist radicals—exceeded 250.
  — Saeed Shah, WSJ, 9 May 2019
• In the next movie, the villains were right-wing cops abusing the law to eliminate radicals.
  — Graeme McMillan, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2018
• Post knew, and had published, many of the leading reformers and radicals of the day.
  — Adam Hochschild, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2019
• Spider highlights a troupe of right-wing radicals as their paths crisscross on the cusp of a coup d'état in Chile in the early '70s.
  — Tara Bitran, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Nov. 2019
• There were always new-left radicals who tried to build bridges.
  — John B. Judis, Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2020
• In the process, these radicals damage cells and compounds such as DNA and proteins.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 17 Jan. 2024
• The radicals of the CUP stayed on the outside, though they were given regular updates on the plan.
  — Esteban Duarte, Bloomberg.com, 12 Oct. 2017
• Arrayed against it are conservatives on the right and radicals on the left.
  — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 28 June 2019
• My roommate thought Dylan was a radical who wanted to shake things up, as if that were a bad thing.
  — Beth Thames | [e-mail], al, 26 May 2021
• On one side were black and white radicals and liberals.
  — Bill McGraw, Detroit Free Press, 29 July 2017
• But he's moved far enough to the left that many Republicans still hammer him as a radical.
  — Arkansas Online, 3 Sep. 2020
• Nor has the president proved to be the leftist radical that some of his opponents feared.
  — Washington Post, 6 June 2021
• In many ways, rock musician Wayne Kramer was a true radical.
  — Steve Appleford, Rolling Stone, 17 Feb. 2024
• The truth of the matter is that these are just a few radicals from an enormous group of followers of the religion of Islam.
  — Sehrish Ali, Teen Vogue, 15 Feb. 2018
• People who lose their homes and households try to do things in desperation and this strengthens the hands of the radicals.
  — Washington Post, 11 Feb. 2020
• The radicals get the headlines simply because their voices are the loudest.
  — Michael Zimm, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2018
• Their West Hampstead apartment became a hub for artists and radicals of all stripes.
  — Penelope Green, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2023
• Imagine that Christian radicals took over the Vatican in Rome and held it for almost a month.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2023
• The pose of the radical has been subverted to capitalist ends.
  — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 23 June 2020
• The waifs and radicals may be gone, but the atmosphere in the Flore and beyond is more highbrow than the doomsayers imply.
  — The Economist, 28 Apr. 2018
• As with the ragtag group of radicals in their film, each brought their expertise to pull off a job that no one thought was possible.
  — Katie Rife, Vulture, 12 Apr. 2023
• Stills was an army brat and far from a hippie radical; he was driven and a perfectionist.
  — Bill Wyman, Vulture, 20 Jan. 2023
• French authorities said it was used by IS radicals who killed a priest in Normandy.
  — Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2018
• According to Camp, the hydrating salve is a solid choice for protecting mature skin from UV rays, as well as from free-oxygen radicals.
  — Jenny Berg, Vogue, 1 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024