How to Use helium in a Sentence

helium

noun

• But it will be grounded as the NPS did not approve the use of helium.
  — Washington Post, 2 July 2019
• One of the most fascinating of these revolves around helium.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 31 Dec. 2024
• When mall staff took down the notes, protesters used helium balloons to display their grievances.
  — Mary Hui, Quartz, 23 July 2019
• Engineers had detected a loss of pressure in one of the helium tanks that are part of the rocket’s engine system.
  — New York Times, 22 July 2019
• That day, the Winns each had four tanks containing a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen and helium.
  — William Langhorne, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 July 2019
• The hot, partially molten region pushes upwards on what’s above, similar to how a helium balloon might rise up against a sheet draped over it.
  — The Conversation, oregonlive.com, 8 July 2019
• The Guardian reported Wednesday that the permit allows the baby blimp to be filled only with air, not helium.
  — Christina Prignano, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2019
• Another gauge of erosion comes from a set of isotopes—of helium, beryllium, and aluminum—that form when cosmic rays bombard surface rocks.
  — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 26 June 2019
• Another 12 percent of the mass in the galaxy is just gas floating between stars (mostly hydrogen and helium).
  — Brian Resnick, Vox, 27 June 2019
• These stars have already exhausted the hydrogen fuel at their hearts, converting it to a core of helium that sits, inert, as a hydrogen shell around the core continues to burn.
  — Joshua Sokol, Science | AAAS, 19 July 2019
• Balloons, especially helium balloons purchased to release into the air.
  — Denise Coffey, courant.com, 15 July 2019
• Michaels Along with an assortment of party supplies for various occasions throughout the year, Michaels now fills helium balloons too.
  — Anna Halkidis, Parents, 4 Jan. 2025
• During the helium core fusion stage, the star rapidly increases in size, expands, and cools becoming an RSG star, said Guinan.
  — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
• At the end of our sun’s life, too much helium will build up in the core.
  — Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 16 Feb. 2023
• The fusing helium sends a shock wave deep into the dwarf’s core.
  — Lyndie Chiou, Quanta Magazine, 8 Feb. 2023
• The cause is the same as the last couple of delays: a leak of helium from the craft’s service module.
  — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 22 May 2024
• Beneath the swirling storms of Jupiter or Saturn’s hazy cloud tops, where helium drops from the sky.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 14 June 2021
• The other is the high-pressure test in which helium is pumped through the system to see if gas leaks out.
  — Ronald D. White, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2024
• The views on just what the root cause is and the physics of the deorbit burn needs of the thrusters and helium leaks are the items holding up the decision.
  — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2024
• The vessel’s tech is at the bleeding edge, too, with helium being the main source of fuel.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 11 Jan. 2022
• In the Falcon 9, helium is the gas of choice to pressurize the propellant tank.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 25 Oct. 2022
• The helium balloon flight isn't the only reason Blaine has been in the news in recent years.
  — Kimi Robinson, The Arizona Republic, 1 Sep. 2020
• About 17 Earth-masses of the core are made of ice and rock – the rest is a hydrogen and helium-based fluid.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 16 Aug. 2021
• On top of that, a helium shortage that started in 2022 didn't help.
  — Anna Halkidis, Parents, 4 Jan. 2025
• There are two stable types of helium: helium-3 and helium-4.
  — Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2021
• The fusion of two hydrogen atoms to make helium is the main process that powers the sun and other stars.
  — Philip Ball, Scientific American, 16 May 2023
• Inside this tube is a gas, such as helium or argon, with a wire running along the axis of the tube.
  — WIRED, 8 Sep. 2023
• In this case, the part that isn't working is about 3 inches long and keeps helium from flowing back out of the rocket.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 11 Apr. 2022
• But as the cost of helium continues to rise, so does the cost of the couple’s tradition.
  — courant.com, 31 Oct. 2019
• The plan was for the balloons, filled with helium and a small amount of sulfur dioxide, to float high into the stratosphere.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN, 12 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Feb 2025