How to Use atom in a Sentence

atom

noun

• There is not an atom of truth to what he said.
• But in the case of a black hole, those parts aren’t atoms.
  — Quanta Magazine, 10 Sep. 2019
• In its heyday, the plane was used to drop the atom bomb on Japan.
  — Andrew Craft, Fox News, 24 July 2018
• The story of these fears begins at home in the US with the atom bomb.
  — Elizabeth King, Longreads, 22 June 2017
• US News & World Report likened it to the splitting of the atom.
  — Amy B Wang, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2018
• The pathway to humans on Mars lies through the atom, split.
  — David W. Brown, Scientific American, 27 Jan. 2022
• The War Is Never Over, is worth a thousand and one atom bombs.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 30 June 2021
• The atom bomb could fall, or Martians could arrive, all that sort of thing.
  — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 10 Feb. 2024
• This means that an electron is mostly free to move from one atom to the next.
  — WIRED, 27 Oct. 2023
• This means an electron can belong to more than one atom at the same time.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 24 Nov. 2022
• The muon is the heavier cousin to the electron that orbits an atom's center.
  — Seth Borenstein, Star Tribune, 7 Apr. 2021
• The muon is the heavier cousin to the electron that orbits an atom’s center.
  — Seth Borenstein, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2021
• The process converts some of the total mass of the atoms into energy.
  — Popular Mechanics, 19 July 2023
• At this lab, the secrets of the atom — and the universe — are being discovered.
  — USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2023
• In other words, the atom has absorbed some light and has not absorbed any light at the same time.
  — Dhananjay Khadilkar, Ars Technica, 16 Dec. 2022
• One atom’s magnet points up, while the other points down.
  — Jason P. Dinh, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2022
• Nudge one oxygen atom a bit to the left, and the temperature won’t budge.
  — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 17 Nov. 2022
• Meanwhile, out the window, a fiery atom bomb explodes in the distance.
  — Rachel Brodsky, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2022
• When the atoms touched the ring, they were found to stick to it, flowing freely along that edge in one direction.
  — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 11 Sep. 2024
• The invention of the atom bomb has shaped both history and ecosystems across the globe.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 22 Aug. 2023
• The second is affixed to the motion of the atoms of the element cesium.
  — Brian Resnick, Vox, 15 Nov. 2018
• A single pulse stripped all but a few electrons out of one atom from the inside out.
  — Fox News, 5 June 2017
• The record was set by the edge of a graphene sheet, meaning the gate is only a single carbon atom across.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 10 Mar. 2022
• Imagine a rock smashing into the ground with a force 150 times greater than an atom bomb.
  — Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 6 Sep. 2022
• Each atom acts like a mini magnet with a north pole that points up or down.
  — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 16 Jan. 2025
• That work set the stage for quantum mechanics to explain the entropy of a gas in terms of its atoms in the 1900s.
  — Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
• The horizon size of such a PBH is merely a thousand times larger than the size of an atom.
  — Avi Loeb, Scientific American, 6 June 2021
• The second has been to study how atoms interact with light.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 13 Apr. 2018
• Nuclear energy is a form of energy released from the nucleus of an atom.
  — Karoline Leonard, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
• And after 80 years, Trinity test atom bomb victims will receive reparations.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA Today, 16 July 2025