Example Sentences

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As Bonlieu toiled away in Auckland, Warrior crew members were moving a community of cancer-stricken Marshall Islanders, ignored by the American government that had irradiated their atoll, to a new home.

From Slate • Jul. 22, 2025

Eddings, who knew from experience that addressing racial injustice at work could create intense blowback, wondered at the time if he had irradiated his career.

From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2021

The voice whose quivering whisper had entranced his ear, had irradiated his heart, had been lifted against him in cold condemnation.

From A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance by Mitford, Bertram

A haunting thing of mystery and glamour, such mystery and glamour as had irradiated his long and wonderful night.

From Success A Novel by Adams, Samuel Hopkins

Maxwell, the other enthusiast, was an admiring disciple of Paracelsus, and boasted that he had irradiated the obscurity in which too many of the wonder-working recipes of that great philosopher were enveloped.

From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 by Mackay, Charles