How to Use radiation in a Sentence

radiation

noun

• He goes in for radiation next week.
• She was exposed to high levels of radiation.
• The forest is so named because radiation killed the trees and turned their bark red.
  — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 3 May 2023
• This event looms large in the minds of many who are now wary of further radiation exposure in the area.
  — Devika Rao, The Week, 7 July 2023
• In that column, the man with prostate cancer could not get any more radiation.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 13 Apr. 2023
• Going there every day for weeks and weeks of radiation felt like a warm hug.
  — George Kolasa As Told To Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 9 Aug. 2023
• The hot oven emits thermal radiation and the potato absorbs most of it.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 25 Aug. 2023
• Even elsewhere in the Milky Way, at greater distances, the radiation could still sterilize half of all life on Earth.
  — Max Bennett, Discover Magazine, 18 Mar. 2024
• The slightly more distant Europa lies in the clutches of Jupiter’s radiation and tides, too.
  — Nola Taylor Tillman, Scientific American, 24 Apr. 2023
• The scientists were aware radiation could be harmful, but at the time the link to cancer had yet to be established.
  — Maria Elena Salinas, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2023
• To bolster their confidence in the finding, the team scoured the tree rings for a telltale sign that aids in dating: a spike in stellar radiation called a Miyake event.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Oct. 2023
• The numbers were climbing on a radiation dosimeter as the minibus carried me deeper into the complex.
  — Tim Hornyak, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2023
• Mars also lacks a magnetic field and this exposes the surface to high levels of radiation from the Sun and from cosmic rays.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2023
• The report found radiation levels so high for some workers that some at the company doubted the results.
  — Michael Phillis and Jim Salter, Chicago Tribune, 12 July 2023
• The Libyans who threaten Doc Brown are gone, swapped for radiation poisoning, which as yet has no defenders.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 3 Aug. 2023
• Lightning storms rolled around the globe, and ultraviolet radiation rained down in the absence of an ozone layer.
  — David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2023
• The continuing growth of the hole would have led to exposure to toxic sun radiation worldwide.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 29 Sep. 2023
• What are the risks? Space radiation is definitely going to affect the entire body.
  — Nicholas Stfleur, STAT, 16 Feb. 2024
• Over the past five years, she’s been in and out of the hospital for radiation, chemotherapy, surgeries and hormone therapy, as the cancer spread to her liver, lymph nodes, spine and bones.
  — Sophia Liang, The Courier-Journal, 23 Feb. 2024
• From shipwrecks to sharks to nuclear radiation, there are a number of beaches across the globe that are better to avoid than to visit on your next vacation.
  — Nina Derwin, Redbook, 22 Apr. 2023
• As a result, even if there's lots of material available for a black hole to feed on, its diet ends up limited: Feed on too much, and the radiation chokes off the food supply.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 6 Nov. 2023
• After six weeks of radiation and a hysterectomy, her plans were dashed.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 11 Aug. 2023
• There are dark places out there in the deep universe, vast Saharas hundreds of millions of light years across, empty except for a stray hydrogen atom or a bit of radiation.
  — Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2023
• Meanwhile, the United States is wiring Ukraine with sensors that can detect bursts of radiation from a nuclear weapon or a dirty bomb and can confirm the identity of the attacker.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 30 Apr. 2023
• The film explains that the radiation led to various diseases, mainly cancer.
  — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 14 Dec. 2023
• Does an eclipse emit special radiation that can instantly blind you?
  — Bill Chappell, NPR, 8 Apr. 2024
• The singer announced in the summer of 2022 that he had been diagnosed with stomach cancer and was being treated with chemotherapy, radiation and surgery.
  — Bill Friskics-Warren, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2024
• That’s why alpha radiation is often considered to be the least harmful of the radiation types.
  — WIRED, 8 Sep. 2023
• Over time, though, as the cesium-137 from Chernobyl dispersed, the radiation levels of most animals within the massive fallout zone dropped to less-than-dangerous levels.
  — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 7 Nov. 2023
• So, some patients were assigned to not receive radiation and there were no differences in quality of life after 18 months or in 5-year survival rates.
  — Elsa Pearson Sites, STAT, 8 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024