How to Use atomic in a Sentence

atomic

adjective
  • 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
  • In the summer of 1945, the Navy assembled a large fleet of ex-warships and dropped atomic bombs on them.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 19 May 2021
  • Seed catalogues sold seeds brought to you by the best scientists of the atomic era.
    Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Four days after his return, the United States dropped the first of two atomic bombs on Japan.
    Ken Roberts, Forbes, 25 May 2021
  • The eleventh, a set of atomic clocks in Munich, brings in a discussion of the morality of war.
    Chad Orzel, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
  • The bombing was the third time Iran’s atomic program had been targeted in less than a year.
    Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Asked if atomic bombs would ever be used in war again, Colonel Petrov pauses.
    New York Times, 3 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • That is more than were killed during either of the two atomic bombings that August.
    Paul Kennedy, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2021
  • A month later, the weapons were used in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.
    Jen Juneau, PEOPLE.com, 24 Feb. 2022
  • An atomic pink soup, made from beets blitzed with lemon and yogurt, recalled the tartness of a Turkish salad.
    Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2021
  • The delta seems to have special advantages where atomic power plants are used.
    Thomas E. Stimson, Popular Mechanics, 15 July 2021
  • Fusion is the process by which two atomic nuclei combine to form a single heavier one.
    Aylin Woodward, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The changes in the tunneling current can be resolved into an image of the atomic surface.
    IEEE Spectrum, 23 Oct. 2023
  • If a truce is reached, the atomic agency will need to perform a proper inspection.
    Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2022
  • Believe it or not, that atomic fireball on the table in front of Biden is actually a cake.
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 30 Jan. 2024
  • At an atomic scale, doping substitutes atoms of a host metal with foreign atoms.
    Ars Technica, 2 Jan. 2025
  • In November, Putin signed a decree which changed Russia's nuclear doctrine, lowering the threshold for atomic weapons use.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 4 Jan. 2025

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