How to Use ablative in a Sentence

ablative

adjective

• The heat shield is made of Avcoat, an ablative material that burns away bit by bit, which carries heat away from the capsule.
  — Stephen J. Beard, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2026
• Linguistically speaking, pluribus is defined as the ablative plural of the Latin word for plus or more.
  — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 7 Nov. 2025
• At its base is a heat shield made of an ablative mixture called Avcoat, reformulated from the Apollo era.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Jan. 2026
• There’s a known issue with a part of the Orion capsule’s heat shield, which is a part affixed to the spacecraft’s circular bottom that’s made of an ablative material — meaning it’s meant to char and erode as it’s exposed to heat.
  — Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 3 Apr. 2026
• Orion's ablative material, Avcoat, was also used on NASA's Apollo moon missions.
  — Leonard David, Space.com, 17 Feb. 2026
• The Alma Hybrid combines ablative and non-ablative laser technology to reduce wrinkles, improve texture, and rejuvenate skin with minimal downtime.
  — Nick Franck, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
• The Navy stated that the contract supports both production and development, indicating continued refinement of ablative materials to meet evolving threats and stricter performance requirements.
  — Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 17 Nov. 2025
• The powerhouse pairing of Sciton’s MOXI, a non-ablative laser with BBL Hero, a broadband light device (from $1,500).
  — Elycia Rubin, HollywoodReporter, 29 Sep. 2025
• Besides getting neuromodulators in her forehead, eleven lines, and lips, Hope often gets HydraFacials at Rise and is interested in getting a Moxi treatment (a non-ablative resurfacing laser).
  — Elizabeth Gulino, Allure, 26 Mar. 2026
• However, following the uncrewed Artemis 1 lunar flight test in late 2022, it was found that ablative thermal protective material had unexpectedly chipped away from Orion's heat shield during its plunge through Earth's atmosphere.
  — Leonard David, Space.com, 17 Feb. 2026
• Chunks of the ablative material became dislodged as the capsule plunged back into Earth’s thick inner atmosphere, a process that can heat the capsule’s exterior to more than 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit (2,760 degrees Celsius).
  — Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 31 Dec. 2025
• Cause of the issue In a post-flight analysis of the Artemis 1 heat shield, NASA identified more than 100 locations where ablative thermal protective material was liberated during Orion's speedy reentry.
  — Leonard David, Space.com, 17 Feb. 2026