Examples of nuke in a Sentence

Verb a pretty sizable piece of real estate would be nuked if an asteroid struck

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun What would happen if a chemical weapon was dropped on Ukraine and/or a short-range tactical nuke? — ABC News, 1 May 2022 That’s another reason to fear Putin’s deployment of a tactical nuke would lead to the West retaliating. — Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic, 7 Mar. 2022 Consider a 1 megaton nuke, reportedly the size of a warhead on a modern Russian intercontinental ballistic missile. — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 9 Mar. 2022 The administration of President George W. Bush withdrew the United States from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and doubled down on missile-defense spending in order to develop weapons capable of stopping an Iranian or North Korean nuke. — David Axe, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2021 And Iran offers him the best opportunity not only to keep Tehran from getting a nuke but to do so in a way that might make Mr. Xi and Mr. Putin think twice about their own aggressive plans. — William Mcgurn, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2022 Four decades later, China might be taking its own swing at the idea of a fractional, orbital nuke. — David Axe, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021 Israel got a nuke, and with the help of just about every other Western power, Israel has striven to be a state that does bad things to other people and not a state to which bad things happen. — Noah Kulwin, The New Republic, 24 June 2021 In this case, the task involves cleaning out a Las Vegas casino vault before the government drops a nuke on the city to eradicate the zombie threat. — Brian Lowry, CNN, 13 May 2021 Recent Examples on the Web: Verb Houck, the co-editor and co-publisher of Edible Alaska, said salmon is such a cook-friendly food that there’s no need to nuke it. — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Apr. 2022 And Joe Manchin and his moderate colleagues seem unwilling to nuke the filibuster. — Patrick Caldwell, The New Republic, 6 Dec. 2021 The £350 million Brexit bus causes a roadblock; former Tory Rory Stewart’s awkward selfies are ready to print in Snappy Snaps; and Labour party leader Keir Starmer steels himself to nuke Geronimo the alpaca. — Will Pritchard, Wired, 13 Nov. 2021 News that China has tested an orbital nuclear bombardment system has created fears that China could nuke America from space. — Michael Peck, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2021 Weirdly, the reheating instructions said to nuke it in the microwave on high for two minutes. — Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Sep. 2021 In the span of a year when everyone’s been on edge, prolific Mexican director Michel Franco managed to nuke our comfort zones not once, but twice, delivering separate provocations at back-to-back editions of the Venice Film Festival. — Peter Debruge, Variety, 5 Sep. 2021 That bacon will get naturally defrosted in no time, without the need to nuke it in the microwave. — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 23 June 2021 All season long, has been building up to a storyline about a crazy, post-apocalyptic cult trying to nuke what’s left of the rest of the world using warheads from a beached nuclear submarine. — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 15 June 2021 See More

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