How to Use tungsten in a Sentence

tungsten

noun
  • Most were caught within a foot or two of the bottom on small tungsten jigs tipped with wax worms.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Jan. 2018
  • Greenland is rich in iron ore, copper, zinc, graphite, tungsten and more.
    — Frank Holmes, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
  • The children in the film are working in the wolfram [tungsten] mines.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 12 Feb. 2026
  • That great sink rate is due to the fly’s big tungsten bead head and the glassy coat of epoxy usually applied to it.
    — Morgan Lyle, Field & Stream, 30 Mar. 2020
  • The tiny bead on this rubber bracelet is made from tungsten, a material strong enough to break glass.
    — Kristy Alpert, Travel + Leisure, 6 Oct. 2024
  • The source focuses a stream of electrons from the back of the tube onto the tungsten target.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 5 Dec. 2017
  • Solid, dense metals, like gold or tungsten, have very high densities.
    — Big Think, 8 May 2026
  • Fraser and his team ended up building lighting rigs using old tungsten lights — a lot of them.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The springs that lofted the truck so high had the compressibility of tungsten.
    — Car and Driver, 30 Nov. 2016
  • One day, an engineer submitted a request for a one-inch tungsten cube.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Made with a space-age tungsten micro-filament, the iBrew is simple to use.
    — Wired Blogs, WIRED, 27 Sep. 2004
  • The fallout over the theft of the small tungsten cube will continue, however.
    — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Those in the dental chair can be especially grateful for tungsten.
    — Kevin Williams, CNBC, 3 June 2026
  • In the case where the head size of the jig looks the same, a lead head may weigh 1/4 ounce, while the tungsten is a 1/2 ounce.
    — Derek Horner, Outdoor Life, 7 July 2022
  • The more tungsten in a dart barrel, the smaller it can be made without sacrificing weight.
    — David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 29 May 2024
  • Global tungsten supply is under strain.
    — Robert Ginsburg, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Later, the area was an important source of tungsten, but the last shaft closed in 1993.
    — Seattle Times Staff, The Seattle Times, 25 Dec. 2017
  • One of the concerns scientists have about fusion reactors has to do with tungsten.
    — Michael Franco, New Atlas, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Such alternative lead weights (made of steel, tin, tungsten, and alloys) are more expensive than lead.
    — Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Prices of three niche elements — tungsten, sulfur and helium — have climbed sharply in recent weeks.
    — Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Blazé Milano does one with a tungsten hue, ideal for both meetings and extra glam happy hour cocktails.
    — Vogue, 15 May 2019
  • The weight of gold, with the fragility of ceramic, makes tungsten is extremely difficult to mine.
    — Anna Coren, CBS News, 28 Dec. 2025
  • As for the presence of tungsten, the researchers are unsure whether Brahe knew what the element was.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024
  • These tungsten atoms would then condense on the slightly cooler inside of the glass bulb, blackening it and dimming the light over time.
    — Natalia Sánchez Loayza, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Processors will strip out their coltan, gold, tin, and tungsten so they can be used in new equipment, thus reducing demand for new mining.
    — National Geographic, 21 Apr. 2020
  • Winchester Long Beard delivered the extra yards, and at the price of lead, not tungsten.
    — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 4 May 2020
  • The inner walls of the reactor will be shielded by tungsten, which will limit erosion by the conditions.
    — ArsTechnica, 9 June 2026
  • The electrons quickly jump into nearby tungsten clusters.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 27 Dec. 2025
  • The tungsten raised some eyebrows because at the time of Brahe's work, the element hadn't ever been described.
    — Michael Franco, New Atlas, 25 July 2024
  • The wars are projected to compound shortfalls in overall tungsten supply as defense demand grows.
    — Kevin Williams, CNBC, 3 June 2026

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