How to Use nuclear in a Sentence

nuclear

adjective
  • And the nuclear thing is still there?
    ABC News, 26 Apr. 2026
  • And on top of that, there might- there may be places out there which are not nuclear places.
    CBS News, 19 Mar. 2026
  • And the something else might be a nuclear bomb.
    Matt Gutman, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2026
  • But this was never just about one nuclear plant.
    Nicole Malliotakis, New York Daily News, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Obama was a path to a nuclear weapon.
    NBC news, 7 June 2026
  • What could a new nuclear plant mean for consumers?
    Francesca Pica, jsonline.com, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Iran will not have a nuclear weapon to use on anyone, and that was the point in the first place.
    Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Our world would never be safe if Iran had a nuclear weapon.
    FOXNews.com, 8 June 2026
  • The war in Ukraine risks the use of nuclear weapons at any moment.
    Juan Manuel Santos, TIME, 28 Jan. 2025
  • The Corps has been cleaning up nuclear waste from the creek for years.
    Adriana Diaz, CBS News, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Fear of nuclear war and its effects are close to the surface.
    Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2025
  • It’s best known as the home of the nation’s former nuclear weapons test site.
    Gabe Stern, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Those who are using nuclear blackmail against us should know that the wind rose can turn around.
    Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2022
  • So the wind farm will equal about 1/3 of the nuclear plant’s output.
    Diana Furchtgott-Roth, National Review, 13 Nov. 2023
  • But despite decades of false starts, the case for nuclear remains strong.
    Big Think, 15 Oct. 2025
  • That is where the nuclear case is being rebuilt.
    Ken Silverstein, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Like that’s going to do any good at all in case of a nuclear explosion.
    Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The project highlights a broader shift in nuclear cleanup.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 29 Apr. 2026
  • This is yet more proof that Iran can never be trusted with nuclear weapons.
    James Powel, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The worst case scenario in my business is always that nuclear weapons are used.
    Dana Taylor, USA Today, 10 Feb. 2026
  • The risks of nuclear escalation were at the front of his mind.
    Simon Shuster, TIME, 13 July 2024
  • Tehran has maintained that these talks will only be on its nuclear program.
    Jon Gambrell, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2026
  • The nuclear threat is the most imminent threat.
    Ashley Lutz, Fortune, 6 May 2026
  • The cognoscenti of arms control counter that such a nuclear build-up would be foolish.
    Andreas Kluth, The Mercury News, 29 Aug. 2024
  • Even so, Stanke wants to raise raise awareness of the merits of nuclear.
    The Arizona Republic, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Vladimir Putin putting his nuclear forces on a state for higher readiness.
    ABC News, 27 Feb. 2022
  • More than four-fifths of the nuclear weapons that used to exist in the world have been dismantled.
    Matthew Bunn, The Conversation, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Its nuclear program has been set back by Israeli strikes.
    Bobby Ghosh, Time, 9 Jan. 2026
  • It was used for the North’s sixth and last nuclear test in 2017.
    NBC News, 12 Mar. 2022
  • Trump wants Iran to further scale back its nuclear program.
    Stanislav Hodina, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2026

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'nuclear.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: