How to Use radioactive in a Sentence

radioactive

adjective

• Uranium and plutonium are radioactive.
• But what makes these wild German boars so radioactive in the first place?
  — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 7 Nov. 2023
• 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
• Tritium has a radioactive half-life of a little over 12 years, according to the IAEA.
  — Bloomberg News, oregonlive, 3 July 2023
• 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
• 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 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 sharpest sign of change was a surge in radioactive plutonium that started in Crawford Lake’s mud around 1950.
  — Emily Wright, Washington Post, 16 June 2023
• Jones urged Musk to watch out for radioactive isotopes being slipped into his food.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 11 Dec. 2023
• With Kanye helming the production and serving as the lead artist, Ty colored between the lines and kept the songs rock steady despite Ye’s radioactive raps.
  — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 27 Feb. 2024
• 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 heat from the explosion melted the sandy soil around the tower into a mildly radioactive, glassy crust now known as trinitite.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 8 May 2023
• For example, smoke detectors use a radioactive source to detect smoke in the air.
  — WIRED, 8 Sep. 2023
• All uranium is radioactive, and each isotope has its own unique half-life.
  — Kathryn Higley, The Conversation, 16 June 2023
• The video ends with a pitch for nuclear power, never mind the unsolved question of what to do with its radioactive waste products.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2023
• In the spring of 1986, in their rush to flee the radioactive plume and booming fire that burned after the Chernobyl power plant exploded, many people left behind their dogs.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2023
• The patient receives an injection of these radioactive markers, which diffuse to the target proteins in the brain.
  — WIRED, 26 Oct. 2023
• Miles Morales, the Afro-Latino teen-ager who gets bitten by a radioactive spider in the first film, comes from a stable middle-class family.
  — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 16 June 2023
• The result is the highest resolution estimate ever made of the spread of radioactive fallout across the U.S.
  — Discover Magazine, 26 July 2023
• Nonetheless, British ports of entry screen for all kinds of radioactive substances.
  — WIRED, 13 Jan. 2023
• Not unlike the dark side of the Hanford heritage that many people prefer not to address directly, the radioactive sludge is there, not far beneath the surface.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 June 2023
• While beautiful and probably just the way the architect likes them, the pools are fully exposed to the blistering, radioactive sun.
  — Christopher Cameron, Robb Report, 12 Mar. 2024
• Swift’s friend Kelce, treated as radioactive by Staley’s soft defense, collected nine passes for 143 yards in the half.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Oct. 2023
• Why does a gamer slay that giant, radioactive scorpion?
  — Ian Walker |, Popular Science, 27 Mar. 2024
• About 80 percent of the material is presumed to be radioactive.
  — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Nov. 2023
• Life In the Cosmos For starters, the study authors think that life which emerged early in the universe may have faced less radioactive stress than life that emerged later, as stars that formed in the early universe were more metal-poor.
  — Conor Feehly, Discover Magazine, 29 June 2023
• Yet the relatively small hearts in Lilliputian moons like Enceladus don’t contain enough radioactive matter to keep them toasty for billions of years.
  — Quanta Magazine, 2 Nov. 2023
• The production asks us to commune with Morrison’s radioactive words and insights, to reckon with the story in a public forum.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• Thyroid scan: This involves an injection of radioactive iodine that makes the thyroid light up to create a picture.
  — Julia Naftulin, Health, 24 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024