How to Use megaton in a Sentence

megaton

noun

• Of course, picking HL2 as this year’s winner leaves a megaton of game in the runner-up slot: World of Warcraft.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 20 Aug. 2019
• Then the Mustang and Camaro got redesigned, losing their megaton-blast V-8s in the process.
  — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 3 Aug. 2016
• The Soviet Union tested its first megaton-range weapon 62 years ago.
  — Alex Wellerstein, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2017
• That brought the total for June, July, and the first part of August to more than 180 megatons, roughly three and a half times more than the country of Sweden emits in a year.
  — Kendra Pierre-Louis, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2019
• Equipped with a two-megaton warhead, it could be used to take out entire ports or U.S. carrier strike groups.
  — Alex Hollings, Popular Mechanics, 5 Apr. 2023
• The second measurement to get accustomed to is the megaton.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2023
• The Obama administration was planning to retire this weapon, which is the last of the megaton-class bombs.
  — Michael R. Gordon, WSJ, 24 Dec. 2020
• Reports from Russia indicate the bomb could be as large as 100 megatons.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 16 Jan. 2018
• Over the first 18 days of August alone, Arctic wildfires emitted 42 megatons of carbon dioxide.
  — Kendra Pierre-Louis, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2019
• The band ended Hiroshima-style, with a ten-megaton rage detonation just before a Paris gig in 2009.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 11 Sep. 2019
• The use of megaton bombs to kill individuals meant, of course, that many hundreds of thousands of other people would also be killed.
  — Jessica T. Mathews, The New York Review of Books, 20 Aug. 2020
• By her calculations, even an area the size of London could grow enough seaweed to sequester ten megatons of carbon dioxide per year.
  — Saima May Sidik, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2024
• The sources of this electrical power released over 85 megatons of carbon dioxide.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2023
• The four-megaton weapon did not detonate only because its fourth and last safety switch held in place, the other three 50-cent pieces of equipment having armed themselves.
  — Michael Auslin, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2017
• By comparison, the Tunguska event -- which flattened a huge forested area in Russia's Siberia -- is thought to have only been about 10 megatons of force.
  — Mike Wehner, Fox News, 28 June 2017
• Tsar Bomba,’’ with a force estimated at about 50 megatons.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2019
• Most hydrogen bombs are rated in megatons, the equivalent of 1,000 kilotons.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 7 Feb. 2018
• Every year, krill remove as much as 23 megatons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, according to new research published by the World Wildlife Fund.
  — Joshua Goodman, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2023
• Or from slitting their throats, sticking his pickax in their sternum, or attaching them to a plummeting megaton bomb.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 4 May 2023
• The larger circle showed the range of a 9 megaton two-stage thermonuclear bomb, and the smaller circle showed the range of a 15 kiloton bomb comparable in strength to the bomb dropped on Hiroshima — not the other way around.
  — New York Times, 2 Sep. 2017
• The explosion blew the silo blast doors off and sent chunks of debris flying everywhere, including the nine-megaton nuclear warhead that sat atop the missile.
  — Vince Guerrieri, Popular Mechanics, 18 Sep. 2020
• The country’s capacity to take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere is tiny in comparison now — in the low single-digit megatons so far.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 11 Apr. 2024
• Early data enabled Boslough and Crawford to estimate the size of the fragments: the biggest was nearly 2 kilometers across, and the power of the blast reached around 1 million megatons, dozens of times the power of the nuclear arsenal on Earth.
  — Richard Rapaport, WIRED, 1 Oct. 1995
• The blast, which was later attributed to a comet or asteroid fragment, is generally estimated to have been about 10 megatons.
  — Fox News, 23 June 2017
• While there is no indication that North Korea could increase this number, even 0.1 percent is effective when power is measured in megatons.
  — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 28 Sep. 2017
• The strongest flares release energy equivalent to millions of 100-megaton hydrogen bombs exploding at the same time, or about one tenth of the total energy emitted by the entire Sun in one second.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2023
• In the last three years alone, the area affected by forest fires has tripled, spewing megatons of greenhouse emissions into the atmosphere, according to official Russian estimates.
  — Frederik Pleitgen, CNN, 6 Aug. 2019
• Even Trump, master media manipulator, doesn’t understand the megaton load of this subject.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 18 July 2018
• Designed to vaporize coastal cities and military facilities with up to a 100 megaton warhead, an incoming Poseidon torpedo would have to be stopped at all costs.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 22 Oct. 2018
• One of the five new nuclear weapons systems Russian President Vladimir Putin unveiled last week was a terrible new doomsday torpedo that can cross entire oceans to deliver a multi-megaton punch.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 7 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024