How to Use atomic in a Sentence

atomic

adjective

• For starters, these strips won't turn your teeth atomic white.
  — Shayna Murphy, USA TODAY, 11 July 2019
• Each disk stood in for an atom, and the springs acted like atomic bonds.
  — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 22 Mar. 2026
• Some could have been as small as an atomic nucleus.
  — Quanta Magazine, 23 Jan. 2026
• Shapiro steps appeared in the atomic system.
  — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 13 Dec. 2025
• On the Scoville scale, hot chicken can range from fiery to atomic.
  — Matt Moore, Southern Living, 13 Jan. 2026
• Hopefully that doesn’t involve the use of more atomic weapons.
  — Jack King, Vulture, 31 Dec. 2025
• Quantum atomic clocks are an integral part of the search for dark matter in a key way.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2022
• The area is made up of three giant bunches of cold atomic gas called molecular clouds.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 25 Jan. 2024
• Seed catalogues sold seeds brought to you by the best scientists of the atomic era.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2023
• At the atomic level, that's true—but hydrogen is never found in its pure state.
  — John Voelcker, Car and Driver, 26 Sep. 2022
• The shah entered the atomic age standing on the shoulders of others.
  — Ray Takeyh, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2020
• These are atomic-scale scars caused by the immense pressures of an impact shockwave.
  — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2025
• Asked if atomic bombs would ever be used in war again, Colonel Petrov pauses.
  — New York Times, 3 Aug. 2021
• Putting the eco-friendly stake in the ground is the first step; then there’s taking many, many atomic steps toward it.
  — Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 12 Nov. 2021
• Perhaps the stretch of noise at the end represents atomic decay.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
• Some atoms, meanwhile, can act as atomic clocks, with their rate of decay noting the passage of time.
  — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2020
• Even though Earth’s atmosphere is sparse, it’s still made of atoms, and atoms have atomic nuclei.
  — Big Think, 30 Jan. 2026
• That’s what the atomic clocks have been measuring since they were first used in 1973.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
• The terrible power of atomic weapons would scare statesmen straight.
  — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2026
• That is more than were killed during either of the two atomic bombings that August.
  — Paul Kennedy, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2021
• But Mars has atomic oxygen, and oxygen on Earth causes a green glow.
  — Lillian Ali, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2025
• The bombing was the third time Iran’s atomic program had been targeted in less than a year.
  — Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2021
• Our team of physicists studies whether an even better kind of clock could one day be built from the atomic nucleus.
  — Andrei Derevianko, The Conversation, 14 Apr. 2026
• What begins at the atomic scale builds, step by step, into motion large enough for surveyors to record.
  — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 8 Aug. 2025
• At the opposite end of the scale, at the atomic level, biochemists have caught chance red-handed.
  — Sean B. Carroll, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2020
• To understand how this works, let’s briefly jump into the world of molecular and atomic physics.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 17 July 2019
• This setup acts as an atomic Josephson junction.
  — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 13 Dec. 2025
• As per the researchers, the results deepen the world’s knowledge at the atomic level.
  — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2025
• There have also been attempts to employ their unique patterns to create atomic anti-fraud tags for works of art.
  — Patchen Barss, Quanta Magazine, 18 Aug. 2025
• An atomic chandelier hovers above the dining area.
  — Kristine Hansen, Architectural Digest, 30 Apr. 2026