How to Use radiation in a Sentence

radiation

noun
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  • He goes in for radiation next week.
  • She was exposed to high levels of radiation.
  • The loss has triggered a radiation alert for large parts of the vast state.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 31 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • The flare also produced a mass of CME, which is a cloud of plasma and radiation.
    — Anthony Franze, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • At the same time, the crew will conduct its own research on the effects of spaceflight and space radiation on human health.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 6 May 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
  • Then, a rodent study in 2016 concluded that the radiation emitted by the devices caused cancer in the brains and adrenal glands of mice and rats.
    — Michael Franco, New Atlas, 4 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • In Ukraine, one of the six nuclear reactors in the line of fire on the Dnipro River could be hit by artillery and spew radiation.
    — David E. Sanger, New York Times, 15 May 2024
  • Aerosols can both absorb and scatter radiation from the sun.
    — Kasha Patel, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Jan. 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
  • More than 1,800 people in the area were exposed to harmful radiation.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The sun produced an X9 solar flare — a sudden and intense burst of radiation from the sun — on Oct. 3, the biggest of Solar Cycle 25 so far.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Men in the monitoring group had regular blood tests and some went on to have surgery or radiation.
    — Carla K. Johnson, Fortune Well, 12 Mar. 2023
  • Russia and Ukraine accuse each other of shelling the plant and risking a radiation release.
    — E. Eduardo Castillo, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The package holding the capsule arrived in Perth on Jan. 16 and was stored in the licensed service provider's secure radiation store.
    — Tracey Harrington McCoy, Peoplemag, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Most of the time, Householder took her baby and stepdaughter with her to the radiation treatments.
    — Alexandra Olson, Fortune, 13 May 2024
  • The numbers were climbing on a radiation dosimeter as the minibus carried me deeper into the complex.
    — Tim Hornyak, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2023
  • That's how other, stronger forms of radiation can cause cancer.
    — Kevin Cortez, Popular Mechanics, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The spacecraft will also take early passes through the high radiation zone known as the South Atlantic Anomaly.
    — Michael Sheetz, CNBC, 17 Aug. 2024
  • 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 Fantastic Four follows a group of friends who receive powers from a zap of cosmic radiation during a trip to space.
    — Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 28 July 2024
  • The Office alum underwent 12 rounds of chemo beginning in February and three weeks of radiation beginning in June.
    — Emma Aerin Becker, People.com, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation were the standard.
    — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 24 Oct. 2024

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