How to Use radioactive in a Sentence

radioactive

adjective

• Uranium and plutonium are radioactive.
• And would the radioactive balls warm the ice so much that the ice flowed faster at the base, speeding the balls’ trip to the coast?
  — Paul Bierman, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Sep. 2024
• Smaker was now radioactive, and six years of work had gone down the drain.
  — Sebastian Junger, National Review, 14 Oct. 2022
• But what makes these wild German boars so radioactive in the first place?
  — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 7 Nov. 2023
• Many of the above radioactive isotopes were released into the ocean at the time of the disaster in 2011—and some traveled.
  — Chris Baraniuk, WIRED, 18 July 2023
• Clues pointing to the radioactive waste emerged in the process of sorting through this DDT history.
  — Rosanna Xia, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2024
• Tritium has a radioactive half-life of a little over 12 years, according to the IAEA.
  — Bloomberg News, oregonlive, 3 July 2023
• There are rolls of packing tape to seal the windows from radioactive fallout.
  — Adam Schreck, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Nov. 2022
• Each impact creates a fireball about as hot as the core of the sun, followed by a radioactive mushroom cloud.
  — Max Tegmark, Time, 29 June 2023
• Often, the meat of the pig is deemed too radioactive for human consumption and must be destroyed.
  — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 7 Nov. 2023
• By the middle of 2020, NSO was seen as radioactive by some in the investment fund’s leadership.
  — Ronen Bergman, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2023
• The past Apollo missions followed a tight trajectory to avoid the most radioactive part of the belts and traversed at a high speed.
  — Mrigakshi Dixit, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Jan. 2023
• The sharpest sign of change was a surge in radioactive plutonium that started in Crawford Lake’s mud around 1950.
  — Emily Wright, Washington Post, 16 June 2023
• Spent fuel rods in storage continue to grow less radioactive, but the process is slow.
  — Philip Diehl, The Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2024
• Jones urged Musk to watch out for radioactive isotopes being slipped into his food.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 11 Dec. 2023
• With Kanye helming the production and serving as the lead artist, Ty colored between the lines and kept the songs rock steady despite Ye’s radioactive raps.
  — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 27 Feb. 2024
• These are life-changing events, like a death or getting bitten by a radioactive spider, that shape them.
  — Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 21 June 2023
• The heat from the explosion melted the sandy soil around the tower into a mildly radioactive, glassy crust now known as trinitite.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 8 May 2023
• For example, smoke detectors use a radioactive source to detect smoke in the air.
  — WIRED, 8 Sep. 2023
• All uranium is radioactive, and each isotope has its own unique half-life.
  — Kathryn Higley, The Conversation, 16 June 2023
• The particle has its roots in studies of the weak force, which controls the decay of radioactive elements.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 9 Sep. 2022
• The video ends with a pitch for nuclear power, never mind the unsolved question of what to do with its radioactive waste products.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2023
• In the spring of 1986, in their rush to flee the radioactive plume and booming fire that burned after the Chernobyl power plant exploded, many people left behind their dogs.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2023
• The first general-election ad aired by Levin highlighted his work to clean up radioactive waste at San Onofre.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2022
• The patient receives an injection of these radioactive markers, which diffuse to the target proteins in the brain.
  — WIRED, 26 Oct. 2023
• The decision to close the school comes a week after the release of the Boston Chemical Data Corp. report, which found radioactive waste in the school and its playground.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 20 Oct. 2022
• Miles Morales, the Afro-Latino teen-ager who gets bitten by a radioactive spider in the first film, comes from a stable middle-class family.
  — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 16 June 2023
• The result is the highest resolution estimate ever made of the spread of radioactive fallout across the U.S.
  — Discover Magazine, 26 July 2023
• Nuclear critics, however, point out that the U.S. has not agreed on a permanent place to bury radioactive nuclear waste.
  — Timothy Gardner, Detroit Free Press, 30 Sep. 2024
• In Michigan, several local governments filed suit to halt shipments of radioactive waste to a local hazardous waste landfill, according to a story by the Detroit Free Press.
  — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024