RADIATE in a Sentence

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61 example sentences for RADIATE, such as:

1. The sun's radiation penetrates the skin.
2. Sunlight consists of different wavelengths of radiation.
3. Nuclear testing has exposed millions of people to radiation.
4. Exposure to radiation can lead to malformation of the embryo.
5. His treatment was a combination of surgery, radiation and drugs.

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 Meanings and Examples of RADIATE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
radiate
 v.  spread out; effuse; issue or emerge in rays or waves
Classic Sentence: (24 in 2 pages)
1  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
2  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
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  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
10  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
11  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.
12  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
13  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
14  But when snow had ended the skating and she tried to get up a moonlight sliding party, the matrons hesitated to stir away from their radiators and their daily bridge-whist imitations of the city.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
15  Their hearts shut again till spring, and the nine months of cliques and radiators and dainty refreshments began all over.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
Example Sentence: (37 in 3 pages)
16  His treatment was a combination of surgery, radiation and drugs.
17  Her hair started falling out as a result of radiation treatment.
18  The radiation leak has had a disastrous effect on/upon the environment.
19  The sun, a lamp, or an electric heater all warm us by radiation.
20  There is a greater incidence of cancer in the families of radiation workers.
21  Three thousand factories and defense facilities are contaminated by radiation.
22  Sunlight consists of different wavelengths of radiation.
23  They suffer from health problems and fear the long term effects of radiation.
24  The reproduction and growth of the cancerous cells can be suppressed by bombarding them with radiation.
25  Exposure to radiation can lead to malformation of the embryo.
26  Nuclear testing has exposed millions of people to radiation.
27  An accident at the power station could result in large amounts of radiation being released.
28  Wearing the correct type of clothing will reduce the risk from radiation.
29  The sun's radiation penetrates the skin.
30  Depletion of the ozone layer leaves the earth's surface increasingly exposed to harmful radiation from the sun.