How to Use nondestructive in a Sentence

nondestructive

adjective
  • But nondestructive techniques like geophysics and surface geology can only give you a broad picture.
    — Howard Lee, Ars Technica, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Researchers say their model will serve as a useful, nondestructive way to study, in real-time, traumatic head injuries such as concussions.
    — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 12 Aug. 2014
  • The nondestructive technology resulted in thousands of X-rays of the mummies and their coffins.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 9 Nov. 2024
  • Smart Objects make for nondestructive, reusable raster and vector images that update throughout your project.
    — PCMAG, 12 Nov. 2024
  • First, the researchers used nondestructive (like noninvasive testing for a human) surface tests at the Stonehenge site.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 31 July 2020
  • The research team used Raman spectroscopy, a nondestructive method that preserves valuable samples, to study the bones, Shankland said.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 31 Oct. 2024
  • This tactile technology opens up a non-optical way for the nondestructive testing of the human body and flexible electronics.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 20 Feb. 2023
  • About 93% of racial justice protests in the US since Floyd's death have been peaceful and nondestructive, according to a new report.
    — Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN, 18 Sep. 2020
  • This team used a nondestructive method to extract ancient DNA from objects to investigate the identity of the person that may have made or worn the object.
    — Ryan McRae, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Lightroom Classic has a big, ever-present Import button and media auto-detect that launches the nondestructive importer.
    — PCMAG, 30 May 2024
  • Those numbers give inspectors a hard, testable threshold for nondestructive evaluation, something previous alloys could not offer.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 6 Aug. 2025
  • These particles have been in wide use for decades, but new imaging techniques are expanding the field to the study of rocks and sediments for geoscience, nondestructive analyses of art and antiquities, and even living plants.
    — James Riordon, Scientific American, 29 July 2022
  • The Live Filter Layers menu offers a wealth of nondestructive effects, including those that add noise, blur, change lighting and colors, distort, and sharpen.
    — Michael Muchmore, PC Magazine, 13 Mar. 2026
  • This repurposing of corporate icons will offer future artists and activists a powerful means of expression which will be easily accessible to the masses and at the same time will be safe and nondestructive.
    — Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 30 June 2010
  • The microscopes are too rare, too fragile, and too historically important to just unfasten and remove the lenses, so Cocquyt and colleagues had to find a nondestructive way to get a closer look.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Forbes, 15 May 2021
  • In recent decades, scientists have turned toward nondestructive techniques like CT scanning to create three-dimensional renderings of fossils.
    — Jack Tamisiea, New York Times, 1 June 2023
  • The machine scanned the skull using bright, nondestructive X-rays, generating over 9,000 high-resolution images and terabytes of data.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 7 Mar. 2026
  • This was confirmed in 2016, when the blade was subjected to X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (a nondestructive testing method) to analyze its composition.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 23 Feb. 2022
  • The sponsors of the Shipyards Act should be certain to include funding for robust technical training for machinists, electricians, nondestructive testing personnel, and welders.
    — Jim Talent, National Review, 3 May 2021
  • So Collins's postdoctoral fellow in York, Sarah Fiddyment, developed a nondestructive method to extract ancient proteins from parchment.
    — Ann Gibbons, Science | AAAS, 25 July 2017
  • Many of these components require multi-axis machining, high-temperature curing, and specialized nondestructive inspection.
    — Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 17 Nov. 2025
  • To alleviate concerns about destroying remains, Snow has adapted nondestructive methods to recover DNA.
    — Erika Engelhaupt, Scientific American, 18 Oct. 2023
  • The feat was possible thanks to nondestructive digital imaging technology and collaborations between archaeologists and tattoo artists.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Just like regular Photoshop layers and adjustment layers, new generative layers protect your original image by allowing nondestructive edits.
    — Shelby Putnam Tupper, PCMAG, 13 Sep. 2023
  • In Arecibo’s case, Córdova says, some of the facility’s structural degradation was difficult, if not impossible, to see using nondestructive technology.
    — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 11 Dec. 2020
  • After a proof-of-principle paper last year, Wiemann and Briggs are applying their nondestructive technique—shining a laser on specimens to reveal ancient chemical bonds—to help solve paleontological mysteries.
    — Gretchen Vogel, Science | AAAS, 8 Oct. 2019
  • The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology later reported nondestructive waves and canceled the alert by early afternoon.
    — Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
  • While swabbing is considered the gold standard in forensic science, brushing could be a quick, nondestructive method the authors could consider in the future, said Kelly Meiklejohn, associate professor in forensic science at Western Sydney University in Australia.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Officials for both the village of Homer Glen and Homer Township will hold separate special meetings Friday to vote on a formal objection to plans for a nondestructive hydro-excavation company on 159th Street in unincorporated Will County.
    — Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2026

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