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How to use fallout in a sentence

17 example sentences · noun

Fallout means the event of small airborne particles falling to the ground in significant quantities as a result of major industrial activity, volcano eruption, sandstorm, nuclear explosion, etc. Example: “It was 5 February 2010 and Safdar had already dealt with the fallout of one explosion that day: an hour before, a motorbike laden with explosives had slammed into a bus carrying Shia Muslims to a religious procession.”

Examples of fallout by meaning

nounThe event of small airborne particles falling to the ground in significant quantities as a result of major industrial...

  • It was 5 February 2010 and Safdar had already dealt with the fallout of one explosion that day: an hour before, a motorbike laden with explosives had slammed into a bus carrying Shia Muslims to a religious procession.2017 April 6, Samira Shackle, “On the frontline with Karachi’s ambulance drivers”, in the Guardian

nounA negative side effect; an undesirable or unexpected consequence.

  • Psychological fallout in the shadow of terrorism

More sentences with fallout

  • And amid all the finger-pointing and pushing to overcome the political fallout of the shooting, neither Mr.2026 January 28, Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Hamed Aleaziz, “Shooting Aftermath Leaves Homeland Security Department in Turmoil”, in The New York…. From the entry domestic
  • During the concert Chris Martin appeared to reference the kiss-cam couple and to anticipate the fallout.2025 July 18, Rory Carroll, “Are they ‘having an affair’ or just shy? The couple caught on Coldplay’s kiss cam”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry kiss cam
  • Most weather-related fallouts and concentrations were not quite so Stephen Kingesque, but many were memorable.2014, Edward S. Brinkley, “The Changing Seasons: All over the map”, in North American Birds, volume 67, number 3, Colorado Springs, CO…. From the entry Stephen Kingesque
  • Finkel speculated that the recession could amplify the fallout from monetary mismatchings.2009 August 16, Catherine Rampell, “I Say Spend. You Say No. We’re in Love.”, in New York Times. From the entry mismatching
  • The composition of the fallout can also be changed by "salting" the weapon to be detonated.1964, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, page 417. From the entry salt
  • We all know about the fallout of reality TV shows and especially the suicides of two of the former Love Islanders.2022, Rylan Clark, Ten: The Decade That Changed My Future, London: Seven Dials, The Orion Publishing Group Ltd, →ISBN. From the entry Love Islander
  • In the angry fallout that followed, nearly all the original Talossans washed their hands. 25 years was enough.2005, Robert Ben Madison, Ár Päts: The Classic History of the Kingdom of Talossa 1979-2005, 3 edition, Preßeu Støtanneu, archived from the…. From the entry Talossan
  • Watch mergers and acquisitions for executive fallout.1966, Business Management: Practical Solutions to Management Problems, page 32. From the entry executive fallout
  • The atomitat resulted from an idea Swayze had some years ago at a civil defense discussion on family fallout shelters.1966 May 29, Mike Cochran, “Three Years in Subterranean House”, in The Japan Times, number 24,204, page 4. From the entry atomitat
  • The levels of activity in atmospheric fallout were determined in rain and dustout was collected on vaseline-coated sheets.1960, Journal, American Water Works Association- Volume 52, Issues 1-6, page 90. From the entry dustout
  • I need to get it all out at once, inflicting the damage in one foul swoop before facing the fallout left in my wake.2017, BJ Harvey, One Shot, page 59. From the entry in one foul swoop
  • It doesn't take the bad guys long to notice his efforts to save the humans below from the fallout of their superfight in the sky.2013, Dan Margules, ScripTipps: Superman & Superman II. From the entry superfight
  • As Don says of the fallout of the slavery-cotton South, “This system is like you break a man’s leg, then you blame him for limping.1996, Dale Maharidge, quoting Donald Northcross, “Progressives”, in The Coming White Minority: California’s Eruptions and America’s…. From the entry jimminy cricket
  • The central preoccupation of the Gileadean society is human reproduction, because most members are sterile or infertile due to the build-up of toxic wastes and nuclear fallout.1999, Virginia Olessen, Revisioning Women, Health and Healing: Feminist, Cultural, and Technoscience Perspectives, page 234. From the entry Gileadean
  • He added that immaculate disinflation wrongly suggested that the trend was unexplainable, when “disinflation is primarily due to the fading economic fallout from the pandemic and Russian war in Ukraine”.2024 March 19, Valentina Romei, “Central bankers see ‘immaculate disinflation’ within reach”, in Financial Times, archived from the…. From the entry immaculate disinflation

Meaning of fallout

  1. noun The event of small airborne particles falling to the ground in significant quantities as a result of major industrial activity, volcano eruption, sandstorm, nuclear explosion, etc.
  2. noun The particles themselves.
  3. noun A negative side effect; an undesirable or unexpected consequence.

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Questions about fallout in a sentence

How do you use fallout in a sentence?
Fallout is used as a noun. For example: “It was 5 February 2010 and Safdar had already dealt with the fallout of one explosion that day: an hour before, a motorbike laden with explosives had slammed into a bus carrying Shia Muslims to a religious procession.”
What is a short sentence with fallout?
“Psychological fallout in the shadow of terrorism”
What does fallout mean?
Fallout means the event of small airborne particles falling to the ground in significant quantities as a result of major industrial activity, volcano eruption, sandstorm, nuclear explosion, etc.

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