How to Use gamma in a Sentence

gamma

1 of 2 noun
  • But now—now their futures shoot like gamma rays from the moving car.
    — Sam Gillette, PEOPLE.com, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Usher's ninth studio album is due this fall via mega / gamma.
    — Ilana Kaplan, Peoplemag, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Then, those metastable states de-excite, causing the emission of a gamma-ray.
    — Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 4 Sep. 2025
  • But the gamma rays and x-rays in the light were probably not powerful enough to cause harm.
    — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 15 July 2021
  • But the long-lasting burst of gamma rays throws doubt on what exactly happened.
    — Eleonora Troja, The Conversation, 21 Dec. 2022
  • It's believed these jets may be producing some of the gamma-ray emissions.
    — Chris Ciaccia, Fox News, 27 Aug. 2020
  • This explains why the Sun can’t emit gamma-rays through this mechanism.
    — Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 4 Sep. 2025
  • So far, there have been five main variants, alpha, beta, gamma, delta and omicron.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 18 May 2022
  • That group includes the alpha, beta, gamma and delta variants.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2021
  • There was a great product in gamma prototype, which is close to a production car, and no one knew about it.
    — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 18 June 2021
  • The mechanism that produces short gamma-ray bursts in mergers is still unclear.
    — Sanjana Curtis, Scientific American, 12 Dec. 2022
  • But merging neutron stars were only believed to produce short gamma-ray bursts.
    — Joe Wituschek, BGR, 9 Dec. 2022
  • The gamma rays emitted by cesium and cobalt can kill germs multiplying in your meat and make your apples last longer.
    — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 11 Mar. 2022
  • However, for gamma-rays, that explanation couldn’t be the case at all.
    — Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Other strains that have been found include the alpha, beta, epsilon and gamma variants.
    — Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 7 Aug. 2021
  • In a new study, our team of astrophysicists examined this gamma-ray signal.
    — Eleonora Troja, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2026
  • As a result, the gamma-ray signal doesn’t fluctuate with the month or the cycle of lunar phases.
    — Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The scientists were able to observe the eruption using very-high-energy gamma rays for the first time.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 17 Mar. 2022
  • In other words, perhaps gamma-ray bursts represent the rare occasions that jets escape their stars and don't slow down too much.
    — Anna Y. Q. Ho, Scientific American, 26 Nov. 2020
  • Working out at the gym to keep pumped to gamma-ray levels, Ferrigno sometimes saw green sweat oozing from his pores.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al.com, 6 Mar. 2019
  • Over all time intervals, the Moon outshines all other sources — and yes, even the Sun — in gamma-ray light.
    — Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The number of cases found to have been caused by the gamma variant from Brazil remain unchanged at 59.
    — Jeannie Roberts, Arkansas Online, 21 Sep. 2021
  • No high-energy sources, based on searches using X-ray and gamma-ray telescopes, turned up either.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 24 Feb. 2022
  • Variants named beta, gamma, lambda and mu have arisen but did not spread widely, Fichtenbaum said.
    — Anne Saker, The Enquirer, 29 Nov. 2021
  • Then the deuteron captures another proton to form a helium isotope and emits a gamma-ray photon.
    — Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2022
  • The gamma rays travel through the ground and buildings, so a person living on top of such an object could absorb a dangerous dose over time.
    — Jason Fagone, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Aug. 2020
  • Meet the Euler-Mascheroni constant 𝛾, which is a lowercase Greek gamma.
    — Dave Linkletter, Popular Mechanics, 22 July 2022
  • Epurescu accuses him of using the delay with the gamma source as a way to acquire more power over the center and its finances.
    — Edwin Cartlidge, Science | AAAS, 19 May 2021
  • Protons from the outflow of the black hole are interacting with the cloud, leading to gamma-ray emission and the ‘heartbeat’.
    — Popular Science, 24 Aug. 2020
  • Gamma-ray bursts occur when a star collapses in on itself, forming a black hole and releasing a massive burst of gamma rays.
    — Paul Best, Fox News, 4 June 2021

gamma

2 of 2 adjective
  • In the 1960s, when gamma-ray bursts were first detected, scientists didn’t know what to make of them.
    — National Geographic, 2 Mar. 2016
  • The machine uses gamma rays to shrink brain tumors as an alternative to open-skull surgery, Andy Marso reports.
    — Max Londberg, kansascity.com, 23 June 2017
  • Gupta says the team would like to include a gamma-ray detector in their instruments in future to help solidify the connection.
    — Adam Mann, National Geographic, 23 Apr. 2019
  • These are caused by the collapse of a massive star into a black hole or the collision of a pair of the dense stellar remnants called neutron stars, and squirt gamma rays but only in one direction.
    — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2017
  • The collective radiation from all of these hydrogen atom collisions, in the form of light, heat, gamma rays, and X-rays, slowly makes its way to the outer layer of a star.
    — Mike Lynch / Sky Watch, Twin Cities, 18 Mar. 2017
  • World View has since carried other experiments, including a gamma ray detector and a remote-sensing system.
    — Adam Mann, Science | AAAS, 22 June 2017
  • Of course the frisker was measuring gamma waves in addition to alpha and beta particles; all these people presumably cared about was the particles, which could continue to do harm after being removed from the zone.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 10 Apr. 2018

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