How to Use atomic in a Sentence

atomic

adjective

• The delta seems to have special advantages where atomic power plants are used.
  — Thomas E. Stimson, Popular Mechanics, 15 July 2021
• Asked if atomic bombs would ever be used in war again, Colonel Petrov pauses.
  — New York Times, 3 Aug. 2021
• The asteroid that struck Mexico was as strong as 10 billion atomic bombs.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 3 July 2021
• Some even tagged him in photos of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
  — Ben Westcott, CNN, 30 July 2021
• The patented process builds complex parts at the atomic level, enabling superior density and surface finish at small sizes.
  — Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 July 2021
• Fusion, which powers stars, forces small atomic nuclei to meld together into larger ones, releasing large amounts of energy.
  — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 17 Aug. 2021
• This halts the core's collapse, at least temporarily, and this process continues, over and over, with progressively heavier atomic nuclei.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Wired, 29 June 2021
• This was almost a full year before atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the Americans.
  — Peter Cowie, WSJ, 13 Aug. 2021
• But the pandemic also proved out some essential things about the company’s business model that had innately prepared it for an atomic shock to the system.
  — Peter Lane Taylor, Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021
• That is what happens when individual nerves bounce around and collide with tens of thousands more nerves: the energy generated, at some atomic level, is transformed and released as noise.
  — New York Times, 11 July 2021
• Commercial satellite images have ​also shown activities in a nuclear complex north of Pyongyang, where the country has been making fuel for atomic bombs.
  — New York Times, 17 June 2021
• Get some wet wipes: The pretzel is an atomic shade of orange.
  — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 27 Mar. 2023
• In Dune, the Great Houses have signed a convention against the use of atomic weapons.
  — Andy Greenberg, Wired, 28 Sep. 2021
• That’s what the atomic clocks have been measuring since they were first used in 1973.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
• Or at least that’s what my own atomic childhood taught me.
  — Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic, 3 Mar. 2022
• It’s at least a hundred times more deadly than the atomic bombs dropped on Japan.
  — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 21 Apr. 2022
• Putting the eco-friendly stake in the ground is the first step; then there’s taking many, many atomic steps toward it.
  — Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 12 Nov. 2021
• Seed catalogues sold seeds brought to you by the best scientists of the atomic era.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2023
• The eleventh, a set of atomic clocks in Munich, brings in a discussion of the morality of war.
  — Chad Orzel, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
• By the time of the Cold War, its inner core was re-adapted as an atomic shelter behind a four-ton door.
  — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2022
• Quantum atomic clocks are an integral part of the search for dark matter in a key way.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2022
• My generation learned the atomic half-life of cesium-137.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2023
• The area is made up of three giant bunches of cold atomic gas called molecular clouds.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 25 Jan. 2024
• Washington expects more atomic moves from Mr. Putin in the days ahead.
  — New York Times, 21 Mar. 2022
• Scientists began measuring the length of each day in the 1960s with the advent of atomic clocks.
  — Sarah Raza, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2022
• And once the 1960s kicked off, the material offered the perfect structure and shine for the atomic looks of Courrèges.
  — Kristen Bateman, Vogue, 3 Dec. 2021
• At the atomic level, that's true—but hydrogen is never found in its pure state.
  — John Voelcker, Car and Driver, 26 Sep. 2022
• A month later, the weapons were used in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.
  — Jen Juneau, PEOPLE.com, 24 Feb. 2022
• By the time the film was released in 2023, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Vladimir Putin’s nuclear saber-rattling had thrust atomic anxieties back into public consciousness.
  — Bryan Walsh, Vox, 21 Nov. 2024
• Escalating without air defenses is either leading with one’s chin or setting the pieces of the puzzle in place to justify a move towards developing atomic weapons.
  — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 4 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Dec 2024