How to Use irradiate in a Sentence

irradiate

verb

• The food was irradiated to kill any germs.
• Utah feels like a breath of fresh air, like a bunch of light bulbs just went on, irradiating a path to the promise land.
  — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 24 Nov. 2019
• So even across one of the driest and irradiated places on Earth, life can still be found.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 22 Aug. 2019
• In the testing phase, Weigand’s team even had one of the processors irradiated to 292 krad(Si).
  — Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 11 Nov. 2019
• Some of them will go to a distant observer, and some of them will fall into the disk, irradiate the disk, and then bounce off and reflect into the plane of the telescope.
  — Michael Greshko, Quanta Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024
• The contre jour lighting irradiating the sitter’s hair, her jawline and the outlines of her arms and legs while casting her face and most of her body in shadow.
  — Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
• The best time to irradiate, the two found, was 5.5 to 5.7 days into the pupal stage, when the adult fly’s ovaries and testes were developing and thus most sensitive to radiation.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 26 May 2020
• Fallout: If the attack comes from the ground, dirt and debris are irradiated and shot into the air by the explosion, forming the classic mushroom cloud.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 7 Feb. 2018
• Why were pigs still so irradiated when other animals in the same habitats were not?
  — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 7 Nov. 2023
• This water has, thankfully, done its job of keeping the reactors cool, but it has become irradiated in the process, meaning it can’t just be flushed away.
  — Chris Baraniuk, WIRED, 18 July 2023
• These seeds would remain in the body either temporarily or permanently, with the goal of irradiating the area at a low dose over a long period of time.
  — Behzad Ebrahimi, Discover Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
• Such fires are more dangerous around Chernobyl, as the trees and plant life are still irradiated from the 1986 nuclear disaster.
  — NBC News, 6 Apr. 2020
• Researchers want to irradiate the animal to kill off these microbes before giving the furry babe an autopsy and putting it up for display.
  — Joseph Calamia, Discover Magazine, 21 June 2010
• When a man hiding in a fridge is swept by this overpressure wave, he’ll certainly be battered to death inside a tumbling, irradiated oven.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 2 Apr. 2018
• Overall, those who received the radiation had a 0.9% risk of local recurrence, while those who didn’t get irradiated had a 9.5% risk of the cancer returning in the same breast.
  — Angus Chen Reprints, STAT, 15 Feb. 2023
• Because my cancer was on my left side, traditional radiation would pass through my chest wall and irradiate my heart and healthy lung.
  — The Seattle Times, 15 Oct. 2018
• The beam enters the patient in pulses, irradiating the tumor layer by layer, much as a 3-D printer operates.
  — Bonnie Berkowitz, chicagotribune.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• The beam enters the patient in pulses, irradiating the tumor layer-by-layer, much like a 3-D printer operates.
  — Bonnie Berkowitz, Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2018
• The spices are not irradiated or treated with additives.
  — Florence Fabricant, New York Times, 10 July 2017
• Toho’s version of Frankenstein’s monster is a giant as a result of his heart being irradiated by the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
  — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Dec. 2023
• Chilean youths and children deserve to know what this handful of detectives did to stop Nazism, which was irradiating its tentacles in almost the entire continent.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 27 June 2017
• Chilean youths and children deserve to know what this handful of detectives did to stop Nazism, which was irradiating its tentacles in almost the entire continent.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 27 June 2017
• Regolith that had been irradiated and cooled had three different layers.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2023
• Cancer cells overproduce certain kinds of proteins and amino acids fluoresce in the UV spectrum when irradiated.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 24 Nov. 2023
• For more advanced cancer or tumors that are inoperable or not able to be irradiated, chemotherapy has been the standard treatment of decades.
  — Benjamin Leach, Verywell Health, 23 Aug. 2023
• Traditional therapy irradiates tumors with X-ray waves, which are beams of photons, and all tissue along the beams’ paths get a similar dose of radiation.
  — Bonnie Berkowitz, Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2018
• In the Smithsonian’s museum of Asian arts, conservation is a rarefied world of badger-hair brushes and irradiated silks, poultices and pastes, scalpels and solvents.
  — Victoria Dawson, Smithsonian, 18 July 2017
• In the Smithsonian’s museum of Asian arts, conservation is a rarefied world of badger-hair brushes and irradiated silks, poultices and pastes, scalpels and solvents.
  — Victoria Dawson, Smithsonian, 18 July 2017
• Traditional therapy irradiates tumors with X-ray waves, and all tissue along the beams' path gets a similar dose of radiation.
  — Bonnie Berkowitz, chicagotribune.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• During the Cold War, armies expected their troops to keep on fighting on battlefields irradiated by tactical nuclear weapons, and equipped and trained their forces accordingly.
  — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 3 May 2023

Last Updated: 30 Oct 2024