How to Use radioactive in a Sentence

radioactive

adjective

• Uranium and plutonium are radioactive.
• Smaker was now radioactive, and six years of work had gone down the drain.
  — Sebastian Junger, National Review, 14 Oct. 2022
• In the past, some radioactive fallout has leaked from test shafts.
  — Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 30 Oct. 2025
• Then, for more than seven decades, its radioactive hull was lost to the deep.
  — National Geographic, 11 May 2020
• How can a battery made from radioactive waste be safe for human use?
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 30 Mar. 2021
• His tea was found to have been laced with radioactive polonium-210.
  — Pan Pylas, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Sep. 2021
• But what makes these wild German boars so radioactive in the first place?
  — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 7 Nov. 2023
• Its slow radioactive decay is where most of the Earth’s heat comes from.
  — cincinnati.com, 17 Mar. 2020
• Listen to this week’s episode to get the radioactive scoop from Ben.
  — Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 1 July 2026
• Uranium, of course, is radioactive with a very long half-life.
  — Don Lincoln, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
• But that’s where a radioactive isotope called carbon-14 may be able to help.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 31 Aug. 2020
• There are rolls of packing tape to seal the windows from radioactive fallout.
  — Adam Schreck, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Nov. 2022
• And would the radioactive balls warm the ice so much that the ice flowed faster at the base, speeding the balls’ trip to the coast?
  — Paul Bierman, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Sep. 2024
• Like, a heap of dirty diapers on rotten eggs adorned with some radioactive waste kind of garbage.
  — Marina Gomberg, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Feb. 2021
• Blazes at such sites could release toxins ranging from acid mine drainage to radioactive smoke.
  — NBC News, 23 Dec. 2020
• All uranium is radioactive, and each isotope has its own unique half-life.
  — Kathryn Higley, The Conversation, 16 June 2023
• There's also the intractable issue of where and how to store the deadly radioactive waste.
  — Star Tribune, 26 Jan. 2021
• Like the radioactive waste itself, some bad ideas won’t disappear.
  — Zak Podmore, Denver Post, 21 Jan. 2026
• Jones urged Musk to watch out for radioactive isotopes being slipped into his food.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 11 Dec. 2023
• When the fire finally stopped, men climbed onto the roof to clear radioactive debris.
  — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 26 Apr. 2026
• These are life-changing events, like a death or getting bitten by a radioactive spider, that shape them.
  — Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 21 June 2023
• The new generators packed in many more tubes, which led to quicker wear, which led to a leak of radioactive steam.
  — Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 28 May 2026
• Tritium is radioactive with a half-life of 12 years and global supplies are low.
  — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 2 Dec. 2020
• State authorities say the water in the breached pond is not radioactive.
  — Fox News, 6 Apr. 2021
• Factoring is becoming too risky for lenders and too radioactive for brands.
  — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 30 June 2026
• The end result also produces toxic waste, some of which is radioactive.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 11 Feb. 2026
• Each impact creates a fireball about as hot as the core of the sun, followed by a radioactive mushroom cloud.
  — Max Tegmark, Time, 29 June 2023
• Often, the meat of the pig is deemed too radioactive for human consumption and must be destroyed.
  — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 7 Nov. 2023
• But the risks and costs of opting for a radioactive battery would have to be balanced against the benefits.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 25 Aug. 2025
• Think in terms of a giant, radioactive junkyard, over and above the barrels and the containers and so forth.
  — cincinnati.com, 28 Jan. 2020