How to Use radioactive in a Sentence

radioactive

adjective

• Uranium and plutonium are radioactive.
• 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
• The neon bugs on The Third Day look almost radioactive.
  — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 28 Sep. 2020
• Like a radioactive neon green just poured out of my body.
  — Cara Lynn Shultz, People.com, 16 May 2025
• His tea was found to have been laced with radioactive polonium-210.
  — Pan Pylas, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Sep. 2021
• Smaker was now radioactive, and six years of work had gone down the drain.
  — Sebastian Junger, National Review, 14 Oct. 2022
• But what makes these wild German boars so radioactive in the first place?
  — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 7 Nov. 2023
• But that’s where a radioactive isotope called carbon-14 may be able to help.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 31 Aug. 2020
• Many of the above radioactive isotopes were released into the ocean at the time of the disaster in 2011—and some traveled.
  — Chris Baraniuk, WIRED, 18 July 2023
• Unwrap the plastic seal and don’t be alarmed that the cheese has developed a skin—it’ll all come out in the radioactive glow of the microwave.
  — Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 12 Dec. 2024
• There's also the intractable issue of where and how to store the deadly radioactive waste.
  — Star Tribune, 26 Jan. 2021
• Clues pointing to the radioactive waste emerged in the process of sorting through this DDT history.
  — Rosanna Xia, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2024
• It’s one of the only sites in the country that accepts radioactive waste from other states.
  — Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2021
• Tritium has a radioactive half-life of a little over 12 years, according to the IAEA.
  — Bloomberg News, oregonlive, 3 July 2023
• There’s no chance of a repeat of 1986, when the explosion and fire sent a radioactive cloud over Europe.
  — Richard Stone, Science | AAAS, 5 May 2021
• There are rolls of packing tape to seal the windows from radioactive fallout.
  — Adam Schreck, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Nov. 2022
• Uranium, of course, is radioactive with a very long half-life.
  — Don Lincoln, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
• How can a battery made from radioactive waste be safe for human use?
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 30 Mar. 2021
• 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
• 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
• The trace amounts of radioactive waste produced in fusion have a half-life of less than 200 years, which is quite manageable.
  — Wal Van Lierop, Forbes, 25 May 2021
• Most Nevadans are opposed to storing the nation's radioactive waste at the site about 100 miles from Las Vegas.
  — Michelle L. Price, Star Tribune, 10 June 2021
• Most Nevadans are opposed to storing the nation’s radioactive waste at the site about 100 miles from Las Vegas.
  — Michelle L. Price, ajc, 11 June 2021
• Tritium is radioactive with a half-life of 12 years and global supplies are low.
  — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 2 Dec. 2020
• 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
• By the middle of 2020, NSO was seen as radioactive by some in the investment fund’s leadership.
  — Ronen Bergman, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2023
• The lead paint test tool contains small amounts of Cobalt-57, a radioactive metal used to make lead measurements.
  — Clara Longo De Freitas, baltimoresun.com, 19 Aug. 2021
• The past Apollo missions followed a tight trajectory to avoid the most radioactive part of the belts and traversed at a high speed.
  — Mrigakshi Dixit, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Jan. 2023
• The weak force—the force that’s responsible for radioactive decay—is felt only by left-handed particles.
  — Zack Savitsky, Wired News, 22 June 2025
• Many groups are approaching the problem by trying to find a cost-effective way to shorten the lifespan of radioactive waste to tens or hundreds of years, through transmutation.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 7 July 2025