How to Use uranium in a Sentence

uranium

noun
  • The uranium would be flown in by transport planes.
    — David Perlmutt, Charlotte Observer, 6 Aug. 2025
  • And uranium needs to be enriched to ninety per cent to build a bomb.
    — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 4 Jan. 2021
  • It gets released from the ground as uranium decays in rocks and soil.
    — Beth Nakamura, The Oregonian - OregonLive.com, 22 Nov. 2019
  • Centrifuges are tall tubes that enrich a gaseous form of uranium.
    — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Get rid of the enriched uranium?
    — Arkansas Online, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Those with water must contend with runoff from uranium mines.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2020
  • Dates of attack, will an airspace close, will enriched uranium change hands.
    — Jon Wertheim, CBS News, 17 May 2026
  • Dates of attack, will an airspace close, will enriched uranium change hands.
    — Jon Wertheim, CBS News, 28 June 2026
  • These halites form out of sea water and are unlikely to have much uranium in them.
    — Don Lincoln, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Tehran has since ramped up uranium enrichment at a pace not seen since its signing.
    — Tara John, CNN, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Iran this year began enriching amounts of uranium greater than the caps set by the deal.
    — Tracy Wilkinson Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2020
  • Tribes have played a central role in pushing for the uranium mining ban.
    — Ian James, The Arizona Republic, 27 Feb. 2021
  • Just as Iran’s soil is sacred, enriched uranium is the same.
    — Will Clark, NBC news, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The mass of the two palladium atoms plus neutrons is less than the mass of the uranium.
    — Rhett Allain, Wired, 10 Nov. 2020
  • The amount of uranium that has changed to lead can tell us the amount of time that has passed since the zircon’s formation.
    — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2024
  • The target was a gold-uranium cylinder about the size of a pencil eraser.
    — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2021
  • Tehran has already produced a small amount of uranium metal this year that was not enriched.
    — NBC News, 21 June 2021
  • Iran has exploited the right to enrich uranium to speed up its weapons program.
    — Benjamin Weinthal, FOXNews.com, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Apparently it is lined with lead and uranium, which keeps the mouse from passing through the walls.
    — Star Tribune, 18 July 2021
  • That is important for Niger, which has one of the largest reserves of uranium in the world.
    — Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Trump insists Iran should not be allowed to enrich any uranium at all.
    — Michael Collins, USA Today, 28 Feb. 2026
  • As the neutrons passed through the particles, some were absorbed by uranium atoms.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Iran has also produced uranium metal, which can be used in the core of a nuclear weapon.
    — Laurence Norman, WSJ, 23 Feb. 2021
  • Those four goals of regime change, uranium, missiles, and the Strait of Hormuz.
    — CBS News, 12 Apr. 2026
  • This retro glassware is known to contain uranium, and it shouldn't be used for any long-term storage of food products.
    — Heather Bien, Southern Living, 5 June 2026
  • On the 29th, the day the uranium arrived, Navy Capt.
    — David Perlmutt, Charlotte Observer, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Zang and his co-authors dated the sample of the prints by assessing uranium.
    — Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 21 Sep. 2021
  • Suzuki argued that Japan had enough uranium deposits at home and overseas to build the bomb.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
  • That material is just a short step away from weapons-grade 90%-enriched uranium.
    — CBS News, 28 Feb. 2026
  • An airplane that burned uranium was precisely that.
    — Colin Jones, New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2025

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