How to Use nuke in a Sentence

nuke

1 of 2 noun

• Could war lead to more nukes around the world?
  — Leila Gharagozlou, CNN Money, 29 Mar. 2026
• The nuke tests were behind some very strange sights in our skies, too.
  — Fox News, 22 May 2017
• Russia is thinking about putting nukes in space.
  — Andreas Kluth, Twin Cities, 17 Aug. 2025
• Eleven months had passed since the nuke had gone off in his industry.
  — Albert Chen, SI.com, 10 Sep. 2019
• Look, the French have been ramping their nukes up and down for years.
  — David Roberts, Vox, 31 Mar. 2018
• In total, nine countries have nukes.
  — Andreas Kluth, Twin Cities, 17 Aug. 2025
• The case for European nukes is clear to some.
  — Clare Sebastian, CNN Money, 22 Jan. 2026
• There will be nukes pulled from all formats of Bowman.
  — Corey Merriman, New York Times, 13 May 2026
• Or nukes — thanks, Clamshell Alliance!
  — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 1 Feb. 2026
• Kim wants to keep his nukes precisely to prevent any threat to his regime.
  — Trudy Rubin, Philly.com, 24 May 2018
• What kind of nuclear fallout would there be from a small-yield nuke?
  — Peter Weber, The Week, 5 Oct. 2022
• Ross gives Christmas a lift just before the nuke goes off in the ocean.
  — Richard Newby, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2023
• His pudgy finger would have caressed the launch buttons of nukes.
  — Doug Bock Clark, GQ, 25 Sep. 2017
• Tens of thousands of people would perish; many more if nukes were used.
  — The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
• But what about our neighbor, the eyes and ears of nukes, StratCom?
  — Erin Grace, The Seattle Times, 27 Jan. 2018
• Those nukes were the first, and to this day only, nuclear bombs used in warfare.
  — Paul Schrodt, Men's Health, 20 July 2023
• Critics say low-yield nukes are more likely to be used than their high-yield counterparts.
  — Adam K. Raymond, Daily Intelligencer, 7 Feb. 2018
• Don’t be surprised to see plans to build a new nuke in Illinois within the next few years.
  — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 11 Jan. 2026
• But the fentanyl is the same exact thing as a nuke coming into this country.
  — Tracy Wright, FOXNews.com, 16 Nov. 2025
• The biggest threat to the hostility in the world is a nuke-armed Iran.
  — NBC news, 17 May 2026
• Pyongyang has literally starved its people to death for the sake of its nukes.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 15 Dec. 2017
• This is the nuke that North Korea is believed to have tested last year.
  — Daily Intelligencer, 12 June 2018
• Xi kept close to his previous positions, such as no nukes for Iran.
  — Rob Crilly, The Washington Examiner, 15 May 2026
• The second section focuses on the debate about who could have launched the nuke in the first place.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025
• If anything, the nuke adds a sense of urgency, a ticking time bomb for the next season.
  — Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 30 Dec. 2025
• The two leaders had been speaking about Iran, nukes, and Syria.
  — Jason Pontin, WIRED, 4 May 2018
• Erie doesn’t have much power, not like last year when Christin Stewart was hitting nukes.
  — Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 10 June 2018
• Yes, North Korea has broken promises to get rid of its nukes before.
  — The Star-Telegram Editorial Board, star-telegram, 12 June 2018
• But America’s avowed and only aim is to get Mr Kim to give up his nukes.
  — The Economist, 21 Apr. 2018
• Given all of this history, could North Korea give up its nukes?
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 1 May 2018

nuke

2 of 2 verb

• When this happens, one of those sprays will help to nuke the smell.
  — Jolie Kerr, Town & Country, 19 July 2017
• Iran wants it as a deterrent to being nuked.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 21 June 2026
• Both are tasty enough to nuke the corner store Hostess options.
  — Chuck Blount, ExpressNews.com, 12 July 2019
• The only real solution is to nuke the whole thing and start over from scratch.
  — Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2025
• The Supreme Court needs to take this case — and then nuke it into oblivion.
  — Robert Verbruggen, National Review, 18 Sep. 2019
• That bridge has been burned, detonated, destroyed, nuked, lasered to death.
  — Mark Harris Outkick, FOXNews.com, 29 Apr. 2026
• Stir in cheese, then nuke for 1 additional minute, or until set.
  — Lisa Lillien, Redbook, 28 July 2012
• Listening to this version is like sleeping while the city’s being nuked.
  — Alfred Soto, Billboard, 26 Oct. 2017
• My people are the ones who feel compelled to get up every twenty minutes to nuke their coffee, yet again.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2020
• Zing News Google remotely nuked this phone, but here's the fastboot barcode screen.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 17 Apr. 2023
• Weirdly, the reheating instructions said to nuke it in the microwave on high for two minutes.
  — Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Sep. 2021
• North Koreans are not going to nuke the Americans out of the blue.
  — Herman Wong, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2017
• In a lot of ways, nuking the Supreme Court filibuster was a fait accompli.
  — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 2 May 2017
• One of them nukes a ton of Gmail functionality, and neither is explained very well.
  — ArsTechnica, 30 Apr. 2026
• How about the Iran nuke deal that will probably end up destroying Israel?
  — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 23 May 2017
• That bacon will get naturally defrosted in no time, without the need to nuke it in the microwave.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 23 June 2021
• Biologists have captured and moved sea otters many times, once to save the animals from being nuked.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 28 Sep. 2019
• Bluntly put, in a trifecta, the players are going to have to leave out some runners who deeply threaten to nuke their tickets.
  — Guy Martin, Forbes, 26 Aug. 2022
• Agent 007 and a Russian beauty foil a madman in a submarine, who is out to nuke the world.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2021
• Again, not a call to nuke the filibuster exactly, but a demand for legislative action.
  — W. James Antle Iii, The Washington Examiner, 20 Mar. 2026
• Skynet nukes Earth and then unleashes armies of evil robots in the Terminator movies.
  — Annalee Newitz, Popular Mechanics, 4 Apr. 2023
• But the government doesn’t have a ton of confidence in the Avengers and decide to nuke New York.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 23 Apr. 2018
• There was a case to be made for the firing after Pelini verbally nuked the fanbase in a rant recorded without his knowledge.
  — Andy Staples, SI.com, 21 Sep. 2017
• And Joe Manchin and his moderate colleagues seem unwilling to nuke the filibuster.
  — Patrick Caldwell, The New Republic, 6 Dec. 2021
• The zombies are fast, the money is in the millions, and the government is set to nuke Las Vegas in 32 hours.
  — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 13 Sep. 2022
• The bill is unlikely to pass in the evenly split Senate, barring a decision by the Democrats to nuke the filibuster.
  — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 20 Apr. 2021
• Houck, the co-editor and co-publisher of Edible Alaska, said salmon is such a cook-friendly food that there’s no need to nuke it.
  — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Apr. 2022
• But that is unlikely in the evenly-split Senate, barring a decision by Democrats to nuke the filibuster.
  — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 20 Apr. 2021
• As long as China can hit back and nuke at least a handful of American (or Russian) cities, the balance of terror remains.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 23 Jan. 2019
• The next step is to nuke the pothole again, heating the mix to about 300 degrees Fahrenheit to vulcanize the asphalt and create a tight bond.
  — Jason Daley, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2011