How to Use physicist in a Sentence

physicist

noun

• To some physicists, Shao makes a strong case.
  — Quanta Magazine, 6 May 2026
• No doubt this is the case for many philosophers and physicists as well.
  — Christian Wiman, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
• In that way, the physicist's work and the poet's are the same.
  — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 18 May 2021
• In the late 1990s, physicists had a stroke of luck.
  — Quanta Magazine, 3 June 2026
• But physicists offer two ways of thinking about why the trick works.
  — Quanta Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024
• Black holes have a problem that physicists still cannot explain.
  — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 9 May 2026
• But physicists aren’t stopping there.
  — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 27 Jan. 2026
• Wells was a novelist, not a physicist, but physics would soon catch up.
  — Matthew Pillsbury, Travel, 28 Dec. 2020
• Sakharov, of course, was one of the outstanding physicists of his age.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 29 Feb. 2024
• The physicists still learned a few new lessons in the process, however.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 5 Mar. 2026
• The hunt has come up short, leaving physicists puzzling over what to do next.
  — Quanta Magazine, 8 Apr. 2026
• Lord Rayleigh was also a physicist.
  — Mariel Carr, Scientific American, 20 Mar. 2026
• Those cautionary tales linger in the minds of physicists.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Feb. 2026
• The Sun is made up of what solar physicists like us call plasma.
  — Samuel Badman, The Conversation, 6 Oct. 2025
• Lee and his schoolmate Zhu Guangya were the two physicists in the group.
  — Yangyang Cheng, NPR, 5 Sep. 2024
• Science emerges as a version of the pastoral, with the physicist as swain.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
• Veena had been an atheist with dreams of becoming a physicist.
  — Rich Schapiro, NBC news, 20 June 2026
• The Schrödinger equation gave physicists a handle on this weird world.
  — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 27 Jan. 2026
• Some particle physicists act as if there’s no crisis at all.
  — Quanta Magazine, 26 Jan. 2026
• But this width was still much greater than the threshold that physicists had predicted.
  — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 15 Aug. 2025
• But many physicists are not convinced by this cut-and-dried distinction.
  — Dipangkar Dutta, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2025
• Last year, superheroes lost out at the box office to a doll, a plumber, and even a physicist.
  — Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 25 July 2024
• At first, the physicist’s wife, an artist, is excited to go along—her day job has lost its lustre.
  — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
• For decades, this has puzzled physicists and engineers alike.
  — Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 29 Jan. 2026
• There are a lot of ex-mathematicians and ex-physicists in the field now.
  — Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
• Keller read Thompson’s movements like a physicist.
  — Sean Gregory, Time, 20 Feb. 2026
• For many of these physicists, the study of engines and computers has become blurred.
  — Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2024
• What do physicists think this failure of quantum field theory is telling us?
  — Quanta Magazine, 11 Mar. 2026
• The idea of quantum jamming is so strange that initially physicists didn’t know quite what to do with it.
  — Matt Von Hippel, Quanta Magazine, 17 Apr. 2026
• But data is patchy, so physicists also let their intuition guide them.
  — Quanta Magazine, 20 Feb. 2026