How to Use radiation sickness in a Sentence

radiation sickness

noun

• In the end, their mother succumbs to radiation sickness as Gen carries her to the hospital on his back.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Aug. 2020
• In the months that followed, countless others died from burns and radiation sickness.
  — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2022
• Humans, by contrast, get radiation sickness at doses of 0.5 gray and are killed by 5 gray.
  — Richard A. Lovett, Science | AAAS, 28 June 2019
• If delivered all at once, .5 gray is enough to cause radiation sickness.
  — Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 28 June 2019
• The suffering would play out over many days, as survivors, afflicted with acute radiation sickness, picked their way through the rubble to die at home.
  — Jeffrey Lewis | Opinion, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Dec. 2017
• How the two who reportedly died of radiation sickness fit into these numbers is not clear.
  — Will Englund, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2019
• Hundreds of servicemen fell ill, and many died of cancer and radiation sickness in the years following the accident.
  — Laura Yan, Popular Mechanics, 1 July 2018
• The capsule contained trace amounts of Cesium-137, a highly radioactive isotope that can cause radiation sickness and burns.
  — Devika Rao, The Week, 1 Feb. 2023
• All suffered intense radiation sickness, and one died six months later as a result.
  — Pete McKenzie, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2022
• Most likely, Mars explorers will need to spend most of their time living underground to reduce the chance of radiation sickness or cancer.
  — Katie MacK, CNN, 11 May 2021
• Many of the original radium girls were dead of radiation sickness within five years.
  — Sarah Watts, Discover Magazine, 23 Mar. 2018
• Two people died instantly after the explosion, and 28 people died as a result of acute radiation sickness in the following weeks and months.
  — Terrell Jermaine Starr, The Root, 30 Jan. 2018
• The city was leveled for miles and the survivors suffered radiation sickness, life-changing injuries and unshakable trauma.
  — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2023
• They're considered one of the threats to humans on a potential mission to Mars: During the months-long journey through space, cosmic rays would damage the cells of astronauts and could cause radiation sickness.
  — Author: Sarah Kaplan, Anchorage Daily News, 12 July 2018
• Five workers at the scrapyard and four waste collectors ended up in hospital with radiation sickness.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 20 Mar. 2023
• Seven other people were in the room with him during the accident; three were hospitalized for acute radiation sickness.
  — Julian G. West, The Atlantic, 2 Apr. 2018
• Even at Fukushima, one of the worst accidents at a nuclear power plant, there were no deaths from radiation sickness; casualties came in the chaos of evacuation.
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 26 July 2022
• The Soviet state directed that only the most severe cases of radiation sickness be noted in patients’ records.
  — Mona Charen, National Review, 7 June 2019
• In a world where the public’s opinion on nuclear power is waning, being able to pop a pill to treat uranium radiation sickness could help ease at least some worries about nuclear.
  — Lacy Schley, Discover Magazine, 27 June 2019
• This group, collectively named hibakusha, were stigmatized in Japan due to fears that radiation sickness was transmissible and could be passed down to children.
  — Monique Brouillette, Popular Mechanics, 28 Aug. 2023
• Leukine, which was approved in 1991 to bolster immune systems weakened by chemotherapy, was OK’d in March to treat radiation sickness in case of a nuclear explosion.
  — Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2018
• He was hospitalized and died of radiation sickness within 9 days.
  — Sarah Watts, Discover Magazine, 23 Mar. 2018
• People have been told to stay at least 16.5 feet away as exposure could cause radiation burns or radiation sickness, though driving past the capsule is believed to be relatively low risk, akin to taking an X-ray.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 31 Jan. 2023
• The vast majority of those who survived the initial attack would also die over the coming months from radiation sickness, infectious diseases, famine and exposure.
  — Ira Helfand, CNN, 17 Mar. 2022
• Found swimming in the lagoon, the pig was donated to the Smithsonian zoo after recovering from radiation sickness.
  — Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2021
• If, God forbid, there’s ever a nuclear war, a Lexington biotechnology startup will be able to sell a drug that’s been proven effective against radiation sickness.
  — Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2018
• While the risk to the general community is low, exposure to the substance could cause radiation burns or radiation sickness, Emergency WA said on its website.
  — Archie Hunter, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2023
• High doses of radiation delivered over a short time period, like those endured by victims and clean-up workers at Chernobyl, cause acute radiation sickness and death within days.
  — Monique Brouillette, Popular Mechanics, 6 July 2023
• And like Slotin, Merriman dies horribly of radiation sickness within days.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Aug. 2020
• Witness the effects of acute radiation sickness suffered by early scientists studying radioactive elements, or by survivors of atomic bomb blasts.
  — David Warmflash, Discover Magazine, 6 Apr. 2015

Last Updated: 7 Oct 2024