How to Use rad in a Sentence

rad

adjective
  • The crowd cheered his rad-dad dance moves, and some danced along in their seats.
    Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Nov. 2022
  • In fact, the surf legend himself has worn these rad shorts on some of the best waves in the world.
    Maverick Li, menshealth.com, 13 June 2023
  • That was a rad little flash in the sky to end band practice, San Diego.
    Scott Schwebke, Orange County Register, 10 Apr. 2017
  • To see a young Galadriel as this kind of warrior was rad.
    Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Cleveland's a pretty rad town, with lots of cool stuff to do.
    Abby Gardner, Glamour, 28 Jan. 2020
  • The pho is rad as-is, but adding the basil and sprouts only increased the texture and flavors.
    Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 15 Feb. 2022
  • First of all, a black hole takes center stage, and black holes are pretty rad.
    Liz Kruesi, Discover Magazine, 6 July 2016
  • Picture yourself behind the wheel of this rad red ride.
    Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 27 Sep. 2017
  • Dusty’s first look was rough, but her winter dress with the frozen heart and her metal outfit, to me, were rad!
    Stephen Daw, Billboard, 13 Apr. 2018
  • This video is a perfect glimpse of how f—ing happy and rad my birthday is this year.
    Robyn Merrett, PEOPLE.com, 21 Aug. 2019
  • While in town, check out Neon Alley, a rad outdoor art gallery where two dozen neon signs glow.
    Brittany Anas, The Know, 24 June 2019
  • The Mamas & The Papas were rad, but right now rock needs new songs as singles, not covers.
    Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 1 June 2021
  • Some speedsters need repair, but new paint, a rad name and a little TLC could go the distance.
    Carolina Gusman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2019
  • And thank you for being a really rad grandma for my kids.
    Joelle Goldstein, PEOPLE.com, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Meanwhile, there’s a new skin challenge event that’s live, with a pretty rad legendary skin for Ashe and BOB on the line, as well as come cute sprays.
    Kris Holt, Forbes, 22 June 2021
  • Check out the video above to not only see the bloody kill, but to also feast your eyes on a pretty rad and disgusting vine walker.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 23 Aug. 2019
  • In addition to a set of rad tattoos, Elsi Ferris has long, brown hair.
    Ashley Weatherford, The Cut, 1 Nov. 2017
  • There's also some wording about not driving around with your dog on the roof or standing on the hood of your car, no matter how rad your dog is.
    Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 21 Feb. 2023
  • There aren't nearly enough coming-of-age movies like this out there for teenage girls to begin with, and the fact that this one gets to live on as a series is pretty rad.
    Leah Marilla Thomas, refinery29.com, 1 May 2020
  • Punk fury plus puppet fuzzy makes for a totally rad music-video.
    Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Rookie has a fairly straightforward mission: to speak honestly with teenagers and give them rad things to look at and think about.
    Amy Rose Spiegel, The Cut, 26 Feb. 2018
  • Graham's flirtation with Karen is a bit whatever, but Waterhouse looks rad as hell on the keys.
    Darren Franich, EW.com, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Boyce’s fried chicken menu items at Commerce Kitchen are always rad, so the fried chicken at Main ($15), paired with mashed potatoes and collard greens, likely is too.
    Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 11 Sep. 2021
  • With both actors being more dad than rad, this will likely be a slightly different film than what’s come before it.
    Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 4 Dec. 2019
  • A radian (abbreviated 'rad') is the angle created at the center of a circle when the arc is equal to the same length of the circle's radius.
    Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 14 Mar. 2017
  • All those questions will be answered just as surely as Jeff Probst will at some point be rocking his super-rad orange hat.
    Ew Staff, EW.com, 15 Dec. 2021
  • If the new Star Wars trilogy hasn't been exciting enough, the recent launch of various comic books — most of them pretty rad — have fleshed out stories not seen in the movies.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 3 May 2018
  • If the new Star Wars trilogy hasn't been exciting enough, the recent launch of various comic books — most of them pretty rad — have fleshed out stories not seen in the movies.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 1 May 2017
  • Bonus Points: New employees get a rad action figure of themselves upon hire.
    Nick Davidson, Outside Online, 1 Oct. 2014
  • What’s also rad is this current collection, which sees the 36-year-old moving into sportswear, but doing it her way.
    Faran Krentcil, ELLE, 20 Sep. 2022

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