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How to use radioactive in a sentence

29 example sentences · adjective, noun

Radioactive means exhibiting radioactivity. Example: “Even sleazy tactics and his radioactive mouth may not be able to contain this debacle.”

Examples of radioactive by meaning

adjectiveExhibiting radioactivity.

  • Burton water, for example, is radioactive by Beetham's standards up to the ninth degree.1917, H. G. Wells, “The First Vision”, in The Soul of a Bishop
  • Today, no one would intentionally smear radioactive materials on their face, but in 1933, the dangers of radioactivity were not yet fully understood.2020 March 8, Jacopo Prisco, “When beauty products were radioactive”, in CNN

adjectiveDangerous and disgusting, particularly of people or ideas.

  • Even sleazy tactics and his radioactive mouth may not be able to contain this debacle.
  • He’s become radioactive.’2009, Michela Wrong, It’s Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle Blower

nounAny radioactive substance.

  • Any ship nearby will receive a lethal dose of gamma rays, neutrons, and other radioactives.2016, Travis S. Taylor, Les Johnson, On to the Asteroid

More sentences with radioactive

  • This radioactive decay produces a hassium that lasts for several seconds.From the entry hassium
  • This radioactive decay leaves behind a protium as well.From the entry protium
  • Lead bricks were placed around the radioactive source so that the escaping gamma rays would be limited to a collimated beam rather than filling the lab.From the entry collimate
  • Class 4 contains flammable solids, while Class 7 encompasses radioactive materials.2025 September 10, Noël Fletcher, “CVSA Hazmat Safety Blitz Snags Nearly 1,200 Violations. Improper Placarding Top Violation Among U.S.…. From the entry HM/DG
  • Flecks of spring green – the kind generated from radioactive waste – coat the unwieldy triangles.2022 April 20, Mariella Rudi, “Tostitos Hint of Lime has zero lime – but it’s still the perfect chip”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The…. From the entry kaleidoscope
  • Taylor also bought a pig—a radiation-shielding container made of thick lead—to stash the most radioactive materials in.2015, Tom Clynes, The Boy Who Played with Fusion, page 36. From the entry pig
  • The caravans were the demarcation between the non-radioactive areas and the radioactive areas.2006, Roger Cross, Avon Hudson, Beyond Belief: The British Bomb Tests: Australia's Veterans Speak Out, page 92. From the entry caravan
  • We need new methods of reducing and coping with wastes—radioactive, sewage, gaseous, and liquid.1971, John R. Wish, Marketing and social issues: an action reader, John Wiley & Sons. From the entry exhaustless
  • Once a thriving Celestial world, now a radioactive hellscape.2024 December 17, Tim Miller, “Exodus: Odyssey” (4:17 from the start), in Secret Level, season 1, episode 11, spoken by Kara Voss (Lily…. From the entry hellscape
  • Without providing evidence, Shoigu said Ukraine could escalate by using a “dirty bomb” – conventional explosives laced with radioactive material.2022 October 24, Peter Beaumont, “Ukraine war heading for ‘uncontrolled escalation’, says Russia”, in The Guardian. From the entry dirty bomb
  • They’re bottom-feeders, and apparently the mud still contains a lot of radioactive particles, but the catfish don’t seem to mind.”2013, Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being, Canongate Books (2019), page 213. From the entry catfish
  • First, you just don't go down to the radioactive material center, like a Home Depot, and get some nuclear material.2007, W. j. Caniano, The Powers That Be: America's Dirtiest Secrets, page 97. From the entry Home Depot
  • These can be any number of things, from down-hole motors to mandrels and radioactive sources for survey purposes.2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, page 44. From the entry jewellery
  • Stripperella must stop a man bitten by a radioactive Beaver who has turned into the rampaging Werebeaver monster.2004 February 24, Sarah Baisley, “Stripperella Takes on Radioactive Beaver In New Episodes”, in Animation World Network, archived from the…. From the entry werebeaver
  • The by-product of this process, which depletes uranium of its most radioactive isotopes, is called depleted uranium (DU).1999, Naomi H. Harley [et al.], A Review of the Scientific Literature As It Pertains to Gulf War Illnesses, volume 7: Depleted Uranium…. From the entry deplete
  • Whalelike things that glided serenely through murky depths, warmed by a radioactive core they had assembled in the moon’s core.1995 September, Gregory Benford, “The Place of Angry Gods”, in Sailing Bright Eternity (The Galactic Center Novels; 6), New York, N.Y.…. From the entry whalelike
  • The water is first filtered and processed to eliminate as much as possible substances that might become radioactive.1955 April, Rafe Gibbs, Popular Mechanics, volume 103, number 4, Hearst Magazines, page 250. From the entry hot garbage
  • He now believes that fibre lasers could be used to transmute elements, as a way of disposing of highly radioactive waste from nuclear power stations.2013 August 16, David Larousserie, “Super-lasers blaze knowledge frontier”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 10, page 35. From the entry publish
  • Besides, they selectively sorbitize ions of ammonium and of non-ferrous, alkaline-earth and radioactive metals, thereby enhancing their usefulness as filtering materials in water treatment.1998, Raj K. Singhal, Mine Planning and Equipment Selection 1998, →ISBN, page 703. From the entry sorbitize
  • These identification plaques will serve as one aspect of continuing control and are intended to be a long-term indication of a sealed radioactive source downwell.1979, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Annual Report, page 216. From the entry downwell
  • The radioactive isotope molybdenum-99 (half-life of 66 hours) decays to generate technetium-99m, which has a half-life of only six hours and is used in hospitals for medical imaging.2013, Paul Parsons, Gail Dixon, The Periodic Table: A Field Guide to the Elements, London: Quercus, →ISBN. From the entry moly cow
  • I was at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles for a radioactive iodine scan, this one at diagnostic levels—less radiation than the therapeutic levels I would eventually endure.2010, R Alan Smith, Our Eyes Are on You, →ISBN, page 148. From the entry atomic cocktail
  • Pandora's box of holocausts gracefully cruising satellite infested heavens, waiting, the season of the button, the penultimate migration, radioactive perfumes for the fashionably, for the terminally, insane.1984, “Fugazi”, in Fish (lyrics), Fugazi, performed by Marillion. From the entry button
  • An article in Today's Health, a magazine published by the American Medical Assn., said public officials have received a rash of calls from persons who believe they are radioactive.1961 November 19, Cedar Rapids Gazette, page 122. From the entry nucleomitophobia

Meaning of radioactive

  1. adjective Exhibiting radioactivity.
  2. adjective Dangerous and disgusting, particularly of people or ideas.
  3. noun Any radioactive substance.

Full definition of radioactive

Questions about radioactive in a sentence

How do you use radioactive in a sentence?
Radioactive is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “Even sleazy tactics and his radioactive mouth may not be able to contain this debacle.”
What is a short sentence with radioactive?
“He’s become radioactive.’”
What does radioactive mean?
Radioactive means exhibiting radioactivity.

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