How to Use cryogenic in a Sentence

cryogenic

adjective
  • This means the cryogenic modules could jam or freeze together.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 12 Mar. 2021
  • How much cryogenic methane and liquid oxygen will boil off in orbit?
    — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 17 Nov. 2023
  • But even accepting the premise of the pseudoscience, what sort of world would a cryogenic client wake up in.
    — Will Nevin, OregonLive.com, 26 Dec. 2017
  • From outer space, this cryogenic version of Earth would have glistened white and bright.
    — Laura Poppick july 22, Literary Hub, 22 July 2025
  • So the two-year starter spent some time last week in OSU’s cryogenic chamber.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 7 Nov. 2019
  • And to keep his one-of-a-kind pieces intact, the singer has created a very unique cryogenic closet.
    — Katie Intner, PEOPLE.com, 21 Oct. 2019
  • Are the advantages enough to overcome the cost of cryogenic cooling?
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 May 2024
  • The static fire test follows a series of cryogenic proof tests earlier this year.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The most recent involved a large leak of the cryogenic liquid hydrogen on one of the supply lines.
    — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Instead of an ugly fence, there might be an ugly fence with massive tanks of cryogenic liquid behind it.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2020
  • By then all the trucks that could move cryogenic liquids, and the people who could drive them, had gone to Florida.
    — Tory Bruno, Scientific American, 23 Feb. 2022
  • The development teams are also still working on the cryogenic arms that link the pad and the rocket at the launch site.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 2 Nov. 2020
  • Crews made sure the rocket was safe and drained its cryogenic fuels once the launch was officially canceled.
    — David Williams, CNN, 29 Aug. 2020
  • He is still locked in cryogenic slumber, still watched over by Homelander (Antony Starr).
    — EW.com, 26 July 2025
  • Their work had to be done on the ground, but their tests had to assess how the telescope would work in deep space at cryogenic temperatures.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 6 July 2022
  • Planes will have to be redesigned since hydrogen requires more space, as well as cryogenic conditions.
    — Christopher Raymond, Fortune, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Kmart has a pantry food section and a Mini Melts cryogenic ice cream vending machine.
    — Anne Kadet, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2017
  • But the challenges of dealing with cryogenic liquids was offset by the benefits.
    — Amy Shira Teitel, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2018
  • The rocket's interim cryogenic propulsion stage and boosters were not.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 3 Apr. 2022
  • Even in the modern era, few mortals can achieve such milestone anniversaries, at least not without the help of a cryogenic freezer.
    — Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 22 June 2026
  • The cryogenic sperm banks that freeze the specimen require extensive screening and testing for all donors.
    — Sophie Strosberg, Parents, 26 Oct. 2023
  • This was done for a variety of reasons, most of which have to do with the difficulty of handling cryogenic liquids.
    — Eric Berger & Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 20 July 2019
  • Sending tissues in a cryogenic stasis to the moon is a related but much more difficult challenge.
    — Ayurella Horn-Muller Syris Valentine, WIRED, 31 Aug. 2024
  • For the last few ships, SpaceX has completed this cryogenic testing milestone around one-and-a-half to three months prior to launch.
    — ArsTechnica, 28 May 2025
  • Unlike Cruise, Ford, who is 80, does not appear to have spent any time in a cryogenic chamber between this film and the last.
    — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The plant in Theodore builds hydrogen trailers and cryogenic trailers used in the industrial gas market.
    — al, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Ghafoor is not the only one struggling to make sense of the possibility of using cryogenic technology in the hopes of cheating death.
    — The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Adding to the supply challenges is the limited number of specialized cryogenic tankers that can transport helium.
    — John Liu, CNN Money, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The culprit was what is known as the bleed system, which feeds cryogenic propellant from the core stage into the four RS-25 engines at its base.
    — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 1 Sep. 2022
  • But leaving out the cryogenic class and concentrating on more day-to-day rocket, missile, and aviation fuels, there's still a lot of room for improvement.
    — David Szondy may 17, New Atlas, 17 May 2026

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