How to Use helium in a Sentence

helium

noun
  • Where did the helium come from?
    — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 24 Nov. 2025
  • At the end of our sun’s life, too much helium will build up in the core.
    — Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 16 Feb. 2023
  • The helium didn’t go out of the bubble all at once.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2025
  • The fusing helium sends a shock wave deep into the dwarf’s core.
    — Lyndie Chiou, Quanta Magazine, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Back at the house, a helium balloon floats above the kitchen table.
    — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 29 July 2025
  • Lots of people count on helium.
    — Regina G. Barber, NPR, 6 Apr. 2026
  • There’s not a chance, either, that there wouldn’t be enough helium to fill all the balloons.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Plus, there is a helium shortage.
    — Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 22 Nov. 2025
  • When the star is cooler, the density of helium and iron is high.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 8 Oct. 2018
  • Linde is not that reliant on Qatar for helium and has its own stores of supply.
    — Matthew J. Belvedere, CNBC, 25 Mar. 2026
  • That first year, five of the ones with helium bodies were released into the air.
    — Gillian Telling, PEOPLE, 27 Nov. 2025
  • EeroQ is making its chips with lots of tiny pools that can hold a drop of liquid helium.
    — ArsTechnica, 3 June 2026
  • When the gas flow stopped in late February, the helium stopped with it.
    — Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • The other is the high-pressure test in which helium is pumped through the system to see if gas leaks out.
    — Ronald D. White, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2024
  • In the sun’s core, helium builds up as the hydrogen dwindles.
    — Mike Lynch / Sky Watch, Twin Cities, 25 Mar. 2017
  • The song itself likens the thrill of falling in love to the high of inhaling helium.
    — Jeff Benjamin, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
  • It was filled with helium and cost money the family could ill afford to spare.
    — Mary Pflum Peterson, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2018
  • To maintain stability, fabs blow helium gas on the backs of wafers to draw heat away.
    — Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 18 Mar. 2026
  • The sun just released a burst of a rare form of helium known as helium-3 (3He).
    — Victoria Corless, Space.com, 11 Apr. 2025
  • The helium flow problem was caused by a faulty seal in the quick-disconnect for the tubing.
    — Jon Martindale, PC Magazine, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Inside this tube is a gas, such as helium or argon, with a wire running along the axis of the tube.
    — WIRED, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The vessel’s tech is at the bleeding edge, too, with helium being the main source of fuel.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Each held a sign with a victim’s name and picture, and each clutched an orange helium balloon.
    — Joe Heim, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Eventually, the helium in a red giant's core will be spent, and the core will shrink again.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Those deuterons then go on to fuse to become helium, and energy is released.
    — Paul Sutter, Space.com, 14 Oct. 2025
  • What is helium used for other than parade balloons?
    — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 24 Nov. 2025
  • The princess, who shares her father's ginger locks, wore her hair long and loose and clutched a big bunch of red helium balloons.
    — Edward Segarra, USA Today, 18 May 2026
  • From beer cans and helium balloons to mortgages, here are the shortages and price spikes that have started to pop up.
    — Suzanne Nuyen, NPR, 7 Apr. 2026
  • The fusion of two hydrogen atoms to make helium is the main process that powers the sun and other stars.
    — Philip Ball, Scientific American, 16 May 2023
  • And the overall lift of the vehicle is equal to the weight of the air that is being displaced by the helium.
    — Bloomberg News, The Denver Post, 30 Apr. 2017

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