RADIATION in a Sentence

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He literally glowed; without a word or a gesture of exultation a new well-being radiated from him and filled the little room.

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 Meanings and Examples of RADIATION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
radiation
 n.  very small particles of a radioactive substance that can cause illness or death
Classic Sentence: (24 in 2 pages)
1  Algebra is applied to the clouds; the radiation of the star profits the rose; no thinker would venture to affirm that the perfume of the hawthorn is useless to the constellations.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS
2  At the present hour, the radiation of diseases from Paris extends to fifty leagues around the Louvre, taken as the hub of this pestilential wheel.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—FUTURE PROGRESS
3  Some were distant, and stood in a dense atmosphere, so that bundles of pale straw-like beams radiated around them in the shape of a fan.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
4  From these no appreciable beams now radiated, except when a more than usually smart gust brushed over their faces and raised a fitful glow which came and went like the blush of a girl.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky
5  He literally glowed; without a word or a gesture of exultation a new well-being radiated from him and filled the little room.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
6  He only looked up at Melanie and talked on, and Melanie looked down at him with an expression that radiated the fact that she belonged to him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
7  The tune, played with precision and in exact time, began to thrill in the hearts of Nicholas and Natasha, arousing in them the same kind of sober mirth as radiated from Anisya Fedorovna's whole being.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII
8  watched as a reddish shadow built up around the head of the judge under their quivering tips and radiated out the to edges of the picture.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Seven Lawyer - Manufacturer - Painter
9  When warmth began to radiate from the stove, and the first ray of sunlight lay on the kitchen floor, Ethan's dark thoughts melted in the mellower air.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
10  They seem to radiate a force and vitality that made her feel smaller and weaker even than she was.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVII
11  On the porch steps stood John Wilkes, silver-haired, erect, radiating the quiet charm and hospitality that was as warm and never failing as the sun of Georgia summer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
12  Cold little ripples of fear that started in the pit of her stomach were radiating outward until the fingers that touched her cheeks were cold, though the rest of her body streamed perspiration.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
13  So saying, with extended arm, he grasped the three level, radiating lances at their crossed centre; while so doing, suddenly and nervously twitched them; meanwhile, glancing intently from Starbuck to Stubb; from Stubb to Flask.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 36. The Quarter-Deck.
14  The absorption of the French by Moscow, radiating starwise as it did, only reached the quarter where Pierre was staying by the evening of the second of September.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXVII
15  The garden, which had been rather spoiled by the ugly buildings which we have mentioned, was composed of four alleys in cross-form, radiating from a tank.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM
Example Sentence: (37 in 3 pages)
16  Depletion of the ozone layer leaves the earth's surface increasingly exposed to harmful radiation from the sun.
17  We really don't yet have technology that can effectively detect the presence of radiation in naval cargo.
18  At least forty nine people were exposed to dangerous levels of radiation.
19  The ionosphere is the uppermost part of the atmosphere, distinguished because it is ionized by solar radiation.
20  As the water levels declined and the vaporization increased, the radiation dose rate above the pool would increase.
21  These gases - we now know - affect something called the ozone layer, which protects the earth from the heating of the Sun's radiation.
22  The threat to a craft of deep space is that its electronics might be wrecked; radiation slowly displaces atoms in solids, to the detriment of any electronic components those atoms are part of.
23  In the chill of deep space, bacteria somehow shielded from cosmic radiation might survive dormant for millions of years.
24  You can fell heat is going to radiate from the metal box.
25  All the roads radiate from the center of the town.
26  Check all radiators for small leaks, especially round pipework connections.
27  Pipes convey hot water from the boiler to the radiators.
28  In the main rooms red-hot radiators were left exposed.
29  Stars are radiators of vast power.
30  You'll need to bleed the radiators to remove the airlocks.