How to Use physical science in a Sentence

physical science

noun
  • There are so many areas of life where people are arguing about physical science.
    — Lisa Rennie Sytsma, Christian Science Monitor, 20 June 2025
  • The trustees have resolved to place the elements of physical science at the very beginning of the course.
    — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 2 Dec. 2021
  • The first two releases handled the physical science of a changing climate and the impacts of climate change.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 5 Apr. 2022
  • Our view of the stars and planets has been crucial to the physical sciences, to navigation, to religion, to myth.
    — Suzannah Showler, Harper's Magazine, 14 Apr. 2022
  • He’s known for using his in-depth knowledge of the natural and physical sciences to enhance his paintings and sculptures.
    — Lily Carey, Discover Magazine, 23 May 2024
  • Twenty-six states require a physical science (usually chemistry or physics).
    — Kendra Pierre-Louis, The Atlantic, 4 May 2022
  • At that event last March, Oliver, a sixth-grader at the time, won the Grand Award in physical sciences.
    — Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Jan. 2025
  • The physical science building is nestled in a forest, where slime molds bloom and trees tilt their leaves in obedience to their own circadian clocks.
    — Quanta Magazine, 10 Oct. 2023
  • The first installment, in August, addressed the physical science of climate change.
    — Tim McDonnell, Quartz, 28 Feb. 2022
  • That very objective quality of the physical sciences was deemed more important, or that was my perspective.
    — Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 24 July 2023
  • My interest in science fiction inspired me to want to understand the physical sciences and to learn how to use natural laws and logic to make things.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 1 June 2024
  • Since Galileo’s time the physical sciences have leaped forward, explaining the workings of the tiniest quarks to the largest galaxy clusters.
    — Dan Falk, Scientific American, 25 Sep. 2023
  • The Thoreau who built literary castles in the air put the solid foundations of physical science beneath them.
    — Robert M. Thorson, The Conversation, 8 May 2026
  • This mindset could help explain the gender gap in physical sciences, engineering, math and computer science fields.
    — Lacy Schley, Discover Magazine, 10 Nov. 2017
  • The physical science evaluation of those risks is a cornerstone for societal action.
    — Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2022
  • In 2019, women earned less than half of all math and physical science degrees and minority students earned less than a quarter.
    — Dana Dovey, Marie Claire, 16 Apr. 2020
  • Over the past 30 years the physical science that explains the dangers of our interference with the climate system has become ever clearer.
    — Naomi Oreskes, Scientific American, 18 Oct. 2021
  • The report reflects the best insights of top scholars drawn not just from the physical sciences and engineering but also from economics and other social sciences.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Oct. 2019
  • The physical sciences can tell us nothing of spiritual reality, in which man and the universe are eternally harmonious.
    — Lisa Rennie Sytsma, Christian Science Monitor, 20 June 2025
  • In fact, many of the physical sciences—such as astronomy and particle physics—rely on it as well, and can also suffer from replication difficulties.
    — Condé Nast, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
  • That evidence, plus physical science research, lends credence to the WWA findings and that of other groups, though this is very early in the storms' wake.
    — Andrew Freedman, Axios, 15 Oct. 2024
  • But research in social and behavioral science for the best solutions has been lagging behind communication of climate and the physical science of it.
    — Kira Barrett, The Conversation, 26 July 2023
  • The garden seeks to function as a practical lab for environmental education and the physical sciences, so the event will feature a nature tour and a honey tasting.
    — Dakota Kim, Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
  • After graduating with dual degrees in math and physical science, she was hired to work at Langley in 1951.
    — Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 3 Feb. 2017
  • This is reflected in science fairs and Olympiads, where girls choose more socially-relevant, biology projects and boys choose more abstract, physical science topics.
    — Sarah White, Discover Magazine, 16 July 2019
  • Finally, McDonnell had to put the whole package in the language of the physical sciences to avoid any unfortunate connection with the occult.
    — Susan Lahey, Popular Mechanics, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Chemistry and Agriscience is a UC physical science course that deals with the chemistry of soils and agriculture and how that affects the life processes of plants and animals.
    — Ramona Sentinel, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Parts one and two of the sixth assessment report dealt with the physical science of climate change and impacts, adaptation and vulnerability, respectively.
    — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2022
  • The office is the nation’s leading funder of the physical sciences, and supports a fleet of facilities used extensively by academic and commercial researchers.
    — Science News Staff, Science | AAAS, 18 May 2018
  • For me, it’s been one big journey learning about the weather and decision science, where the physical science interacts with the social science, and how to make sure the right people have the right information to make good decisions about fires.
    — Joan Meiners, The Arizona Republic, 21 Sep. 2022

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