How to Use atomic in a Sentence

atomic

adjective

• Get some wet wipes: The pretzel is an atomic shade of orange.
  — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 27 Mar. 2023
• Seed catalogues sold seeds brought to you by the best scientists of the atomic era.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2023
• My generation learned the atomic half-life of cesium-137.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2023
• The area is made up of three giant bunches of cold atomic gas called molecular clouds.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 25 Jan. 2024
• At the atomic level, that's true—but hydrogen is never found in its pure state.
  — John Voelcker, Car and Driver, 26 Sep. 2022
• Fusion is the process by which two atomic nuclei combine to form a single heavier one.
  — Aylin Woodward, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2022
• The changes in the tunneling current can be resolved into an image of the atomic surface.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Oct. 2023
• Believe it or not, that atomic fireball on the table in front of Biden is actually a cake.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 30 Jan. 2024
• They were also constructed of ‘50s atomic nightmares and a fear of science run amok.
  — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 5 May 2023
• On the contrary, the tremendous power of atomic fission was already known when World War II began.
  — Readers, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2023
• Because they are just bound together by those very strong, atomic ties.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 30 Sep. 2022
• That’s in addition to Mechagodzilla, who plays a bigger role here than the fire-breathing atomic metaphor that inspired him.
  — Katie Rife, EW.com, 28 Mar. 2024
• The ravages of toxic waste and the horrific aftermath of atomic war are never seen.
  — Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2023
• Fusion occurs when two atomic nuclei combine to form a new one.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Dec. 2022
• His research revealed that X-rays are diffracted based on the crystal's atomic structure.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 7 Feb. 2023
• To defeat him, Scott goes sub-atomic and short-circuits Darren’s shrinking suit.
  — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 15 Feb. 2023
• And make no mistake, that spot will be very sweet for Toho’s favorite giant atomic monster.
  — Mark Hughes, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• By stacking one layer of graphene on top of another, then twisting one layer, a moiré pattern at the atomic scale emerges.
  — Adrienne Bernhard, Popular Mechanics, 15 June 2023
• In 1945, Americans should have seen the victims of the atomic bombings in the newsreels, the screen journalism of the pre-television, pre-digital age.
  — Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Sep. 2023
• Outside of the tensions over the nuclear deal and Iran's atomic ambitions, a series of attacks and ship seizures in the Mideast have been attributed to Tehran since 2019.
  — Jon Gambrell and Matthew Lee, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2023
• The first wave of atomic movies were sci-fi, a genre that, as film historian Foster Hirsch points out, didn’t even exist as a genre in America until the 1950s.
  — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2024
• But the Nolan film seems much more interested, to me, in taking a much broader view of what Oppenheimer's life meant and also what sort of atomic weapons meant … what the dawn of that era meant.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 July 2023
• The drifting duration of the day wanders out of synch with the steady marching of the atomic second, and this risks opening a rift between the time as told by atoms and the time as told by astronomy.
  — Nate Hopper, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2022
• First, what are the properties of atomic nuclei with a large difference between the numbers of protons and neutrons?
  — Artemis Spyrou, The Conversation, 14 Nov. 2022
• For a typical human being, that threshold is around the size of an atomic nucleus.
  — Popular Mechanics, 8 Sep. 2023
• An image made with atomic force microscopy [b] shows the surface of a silicon-carbide layer.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Jan. 2024
• The monster was historically written as a metaphor for the ills of nuclear weapons and atomic testing.
  — Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 11 Mar. 2024
• That was a reference to Moscow’s thinly veiled threats to use atomic weapons as its nearly nine-month invasion of Ukraine has faltered.
  — Seung Min Kim, Zeke Miller, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Nov. 2022
• Americans remember the atomic bombardments of Japan, but less to mourn civilians’ suffering than to mark the war’s end or to ponder the dawn of the nuclear age.
  — Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2023
• Should the United States attempt to maintain its monopoly position as the sole atomic power?
  — Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024