How to Use nuke in a Sentence

nuke

1 of 2 noun

• And then there’s the nuke stuff, and that’s made at a lab in Berkeley or L.A.
  — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 1 Mar. 2023
• Look, the French have been ramping their nukes up and down for years.
  — David Roberts, Vox, 31 Mar. 2018
• Ross gives Christmas a lift just before the nuke goes off in the ocean.
  — Richard Newby, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2023
• The nuke tests were behind some very strange sights in our skies, too.
  — Fox News, 22 May 2017
• That’s a decrease of 350 nukes, or about a warhead a day.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 19 June 2018
• But what about our neighbor, the eyes and ears of nukes, StratCom?
  — Erin Grace, The Seattle Times, 27 Jan. 2018
• Eleven months had passed since the nuke had gone off in his industry.
  — Albert Chen, SI.com, 10 Sep. 2019
• The Chinese and Indians have told them not to use nukes.
  — Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 13 June 2023
• Oil drillers who need to blow up an asteroid with a nuke.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2018
• This just turns this move into a full-on AOE nuke, which is one of the best damage options in the game.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2023
• This is the nuke that North Korea is believed to have tested last year.
  — Daily Intelligencer, 12 June 2018
• The two leaders had been speaking about Iran, nukes, and Syria.
  — Jason Pontin, WIRED, 4 May 2018
• His pudgy finger would have caressed the launch buttons of nukes.
  — Doug Bock Clark, GQ, 25 Sep. 2017
• So, red baseball caps, scarves, and firing off some nukes.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 2 Feb. 2018
• Kim wants to keep his nukes precisely to prevent any threat to his regime.
  — Trudy Rubin, Philly.com, 24 May 2018
• But America’s avowed and only aim is to get Mr Kim to give up his nukes.
  — The Economist, 21 Apr. 2018
• After the Soviet Union failed, there were like 1,700 nukes in Ukraine.
  — ABC News, 19 Feb. 2023
• Those nukes were the first, and to this day only, nuclear bombs used in warfare.
  — Paul Schrodt, Men's Health, 20 July 2023
• Tens of thousands of people would perish; many more if nukes were used.
  — The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
• What kind of nuclear fallout would there be from a small-yield nuke?
  — Peter Weber, The Week, 5 Oct. 2022
• Apparently Trump thought the way to get Kim to give up all his nukes was to threaten to destroy him.
  — Trudy Rubin, Philly.com, 24 May 2018
• The tangled history of nukes and space is again resurfacing, just up the road from the Redstone test stand.
  — Wired, 27 Sep. 2019
• Erie doesn’t have much power, not like last year when Christin Stewart was hitting nukes.
  — Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 10 June 2018
• Even for Donald Trump, launching 80 nukes a year seems extreme.
  — Garrett M. Graff, WIRED, 26 Aug. 2019
• Pyongyang has literally starved its people to death for the sake of its nukes.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 15 Dec. 2017
• There’s talk of Russia using [nukes] as a tactical weapon in Ukraine.
  — Time, 24 July 2023
• Yes, North Korea has broken promises to get rid of its nukes before.
  — The Star-Telegram Editorial Board, star-telegram, 12 June 2018
• Look, the whole world is stupid and selfish and lazy and nukes are about to rain down on us, so why even make another goddamn polar bear?
  — Heather Havrilesky, The Cut, 1 Nov. 2017
• The Outer Space Treaty—which was hammered out in 1967, before anyone even set foot on the moon—says no one can deploy nukes or claim territory for their own.
  — WIRED, 8 Nov. 2023
• China is in the process of rapidly building nukes, and will likely double its nuclear arsenal to more than 1,000 warheads by the end of the decade, according to the Pentagon.
  — Mathias Hammer, TIME, 13 Nov. 2023

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nuke

2 of 2 verb

• When this happens, one of those sprays will help to nuke the smell.
  — Jolie Kerr, Town & Country, 19 July 2017
• The Supreme Court needs to take this case — and then nuke it into oblivion.
  — Robert Verbruggen, National Review, 18 Sep. 2019
• Even Bloomberg seems too scared to nuke Sanders from orbit.
  — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 26 Feb. 2020
• It’s time to nuke the blue slip and let all nominees get a hearing and an up-or-down vote.
  — Jonathan S. Tobin, National Review, 11 Sep. 2017
• But the government doesn’t have a ton of confidence in the Avengers and decide to nuke New York.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 23 Apr. 2018
• Transfer to microwave-safe bowls and nuke it to reheat.
  — The Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen, Good Housekeeping, 21 Sep. 2020
• Both are tasty enough to nuke the corner store Hostess options.
  — Chuck Blount, ExpressNews.com, 12 July 2019
• The zombies are fast, the money is in the millions, and the government is set to nuke Las Vegas in 32 hours.
  — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 13 Sep. 2022
• Agent 007 and a Russian beauty foil a madman in a submarine, who is out to nuke the world.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2021
• North Koreans are not going to nuke the Americans out of the blue.
  — Herman Wong, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2017
• Will Santa’s weaponized sleigh get nuked over North Korea?
  — George Mathis, ajc, 30 Nov. 2017
• In a lot of ways, nuking the Supreme Court filibuster was a fait accompli.
  — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 2 May 2017
• The next step is to nuke the pothole again, heating the mix to about 300 degrees Fahrenheit to vulcanize the asphalt and create a tight bond.
  — Jason Daley, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2011
• Zing News Google remotely nuked this phone, but here's the fastboot barcode screen.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 17 Apr. 2023
• According to Reuters, Trump really was prepared to nuke the deal.
  — Bess Levin, vanityfair.com, 28 Apr. 2017
• Listening to this version is like sleeping while the city’s being nuked.
  — Alfred Soto, Billboard, 26 Oct. 2017
• The bill is unlikely to pass in the evenly split Senate, barring a decision by the Democrats to nuke the filibuster.
  — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 20 Apr. 2021
• My people are the ones who feel compelled to get up every twenty minutes to nuke their coffee, yet again.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2020
• Weirdly, the reheating instructions said to nuke it in the microwave on high for two minutes.
  — Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Sep. 2021
• Stir in cheese, then nuke for 1 additional minute, or until set.
  — Lisa Lillien, Redbook, 28 July 2012
• How about the Iran nuke deal that will probably end up destroying Israel?
  — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 23 May 2017
• Skynet nukes Earth and then unleashes armies of evil robots in the Terminator movies.
  — Annalee Newitz, Popular Mechanics, 4 Apr. 2023
• Moscow has long threatened to nuke Britain during tense moments dating back to the 1956 Suez Crisis.
  — Michael Peck, Forbes, 3 May 2022
• Be careful, everyone: If the fans don't behave, the franchise may have to nuke another fridge.
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 5 Dec. 2022
• That bacon will get naturally defrosted in no time, without the need to nuke it in the microwave.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 23 June 2021
• Bluntly put, in a trifecta, the players are going to have to leave out some runners who deeply threaten to nuke their tickets.
  — Guy Martin, Forbes, 26 Aug. 2022
• The Prinz Eugen capsized in 1946 after being nuked—twice—during the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 17 Sep. 2018
• As long as China can hit back and nuke at least a handful of American (or Russian) cities, the balance of terror remains.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 23 Jan. 2019
• Houck, the co-editor and co-publisher of Edible Alaska, said salmon is such a cook-friendly food that there’s no need to nuke it.
  — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Apr. 2022
• There was a case to be made for the firing after Pelini verbally nuked the fanbase in a rant recorded without his knowledge.
  — Andy Staples, SI.com, 21 Sep. 2017

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