Example sentences for: radioactive

How can you use “radioactive” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A Russian acrobat gets in, as does a Chinese physicist specializing in detecting radioactive leaks.

  • The incident, which exposed 22 employees to radioactive water, came one week after the worst nuclear accident in Japan's history.

  • The Daily Telegraph said that while it was "obviously right" that radioactive uranium from Georgia should end up at Dounreay rather than be "made into nuclear weapons in Iraq or Iran," Blair "should have allowed Parliament and the public to consider the issues involved before, rather than after, the event."

  • Advocates blame slow adoption of irradiation on technophobic lobbying groups that ignore the evidence and stir public fears with outrageous claims that the process makes food radioactive.

  • Or, as Tom Leherer sang in "The Wild West Is Where I Want To Be," in the only line I can recall, "Where the scenery is attractive, and the air is radioactive."


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