How to Use atom in a Sentence

atom

noun

• There is not an atom of truth to what he said.
• Now bring this scene down to the scale of an atom.
  — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 16 Aug. 2025
• He’s not being asked to split the atom.
  — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 22 Feb. 2026
• So imagine an atom, think of a proton.
  — Outside Online, 17 Sep. 2025
• This is why the atom must be kept as still as possible.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 21 June 2026
• The darker and wider the band, the more abundant the atom.
  — Big Think, 10 Oct. 2025
• The answer lies in the movement of atoms.
  — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 16 Feb. 2026
• The central unit is an oxygen atom.
  — Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 27 Apr. 2026
• In its heyday, the plane was used to drop the atom bomb on Japan.
  — Andrew Craft, Fox News, 24 July 2018
• This means an electron can belong to more than one atom at the same time.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 24 Nov. 2022
• Each disk stood in for an atom, and the springs acted like atomic bonds.
  — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 22 Mar. 2026
• Each atom acts like a mini magnet with a north pole that points up or down.
  — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 16 Jan. 2025
• This means that an electron is mostly free to move from one atom to the next.
  — WIRED, 27 Oct. 2023
• The first is graphene, which is only one layer of carbon atoms thick.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 22 Aug. 2019
• An atom has a small, dense center called the nucleus.
  — Kelling Donald, The Conversation, 13 Oct. 2025
• Between the atoms was void, and all things that existed were atoms.
  — Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025
• These beams knocked boron atoms out of ultrathin sheets of boron nitride.
  — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 15 Sep. 2025
• Inside the fiber, the laser light interacts with xenon gas atoms.
  — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 12 Mar. 2026
• Yet, even within solids, atoms are in a constant motion.
  — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 10 June 2026
• If a single atom of that sample decays, the vial breaks, and the cat dies.
  — Camila Domonoske, NPR, 27 Mar. 2026
• The atom bomb could fall, or Martians could arrive, all that sort of thing.
  — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 10 Feb. 2024
• Jonathan had started with an atom and then, 25 years later, kapow!
  — Simon Doonan, ELLE Decor, 8 Mar. 2019
• Someone said there should be drone strikes against me until not an atom of my body exists.
  — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 2 Oct. 2025
• Of course, the cold-atom approach also has drawbacks.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 24 Sep. 2025
• They harness energy from the sun, wind, rivers, atoms, and ores.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Oct. 2025
• These kinks can move around and, in the right conditions, behave just like atoms.
  — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2025
• The built an acoustic atom, a chip-scale device that can trap and control sound waves.
  — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 3 June 2026
• Optical tweezers can trap the atoms, which act as qubits, and hold them or move them around.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 21 June 2026
• 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
• And that subsequence super atom is very good at slowing the speed of light.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 16 Aug. 2022