How to Use ablate in a Sentence

ablate

verb

• The waves were powerful enough to ablate the pink granite into grey ash at the demo site, where samples were made available during the tour.
  — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2025
• The intense heat of re-entry ablates their materials into fine particles.
  — Leonard David, Space.com, 13 Feb. 2026
• The thermal barrier is designed to ablate, or erode, during reentry, but the shield cracked and chipped away in an unexpected manner on the Artemis I mission in 2022.
  — Cyrus Farivar, ArsTechnica, 10 Apr. 2026
• For the pair of galaxies, the hot gas cloud of ionized gas, filled with free electrons and which stretches for millions of light years around the cluster is like tumbling into a vat of treacle that then begins to scour the gas on the leading edge of the infalling galaxies, ablating it.
  — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 25 Sep. 2025
• Gerding also showed the first results of IAP's new three-channel multi-species lidar that's set up to search for different materials expected to be ablated by reentering space debris.
  — Leonard David, Space.com, 13 May 2026
• This energy ablates sympathetic nerve fibers without compromising arterial integrity, reducing nerve activity and allowing the body to naturally regulate blood pressure.
  — Memorialcare, Oc Register, 16 Feb. 2026
• As with the Apollo spacecraft, Orion’s heat shield is made principally of a material known as Avcoat, a combination of epoxy resin and silica fibers, designed to absorb the fires of reentry and slowly burn off, or ablate, carrying the reentry heat away from the capsule and crew.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 11 Apr. 2026
• However, lasers also can generate picosecond (10-12 second) or femtosecond (10-15 second) pulses to measure distances more precisely, and concentrating pulse energy into such short time spans might raise their peak power to levels that could ablate material from the sensor surface.
  — Jeff Hecht, IEEE Spectrum, 24 Jan. 2019