Sample sentences for IRRADIATE

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Definition

expose to radiation

Much more rarely, irradiate can mean to shine a bright light upon. Even more rarely, it can mean to provide intellectual or spiritual clarity.

The strength of the victory shone forth from her as she lifted her irradiated face from the child on her knees.
Edith Wharton -- The House of Mirth

Let an enemy irradiate the surface of the battlestation.
John Ringo -- Live Free or Die
They'll insert you in a gleaming tube, irradiate your body with the basic stuff of the universe.
Don DeLillo -- White Noise
He had been intent on this prize from the first; but he had never allowed his eagerness to irradiate his refined face.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volumes 1 & 2
The American Medical Association and the World Health Organization have declared that irradiated foods are safe to eat.
Eric Schlosser -- Fast Food Nation
Otherwise you'd live off soy burgers and irradiated powdered eggs."
J.D. Robb -- Immortal in Death
For, d'ye see, rainbows do not visit the clear air; they only irradiate vapour.
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
At once from every part of his being unrest began to irradiate.
James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
He had been intent on this prize from the first; but he had never allowed his eagerness to irradiate his refined face.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2
I want the background to glow, to look irradiated, nuked out.
Christina Garcia -- Dreaming in Cuban
I wish they would consider our children, whose schools and parks sit beside the roads and tracks that will carry that irradiated crap.
Ellen Hopkins -- Burned
"Oh, my life is very simple," said Dorothea, her lips curling with an exquisite smile, which irradiated her melancholy.
George Eliot -- Middlemarch
I don't mind being irradiated.
Michael Crichton -- The Andromeda Strain
Feeney washed down irradiated eggs with black bean coffee without a wince.
J.D. Robb -- Naked in Death
Balthazar all but glowed blue-white from those crude, early Poulsen treatments; he was like an irradiated mummy of a man, sealed in liquid plastic.
Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
He was irradiated by the dawn of a great amazement.
H.G. Wells -- The Invisible Man
First of a they're sterile, because we irradiate them with X-rays.
Michael Crichton -- Jurassic Park
He stands before me again, his bluff hairy face irradiating with a joyful love and pride, for which I can find no description.
Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield
A tenuous light surrounds them, almost as if irradiated by them — the faint breath of their fantastic reality.
Luigi Pirandello -- Six Characters in Search of an Author
"So much the easier what I have to say, and so much the easier for us to agree," returned my guardian, his face irradiated by the gentleness and honour of his heart.
Charles Dickens -- Bleak House

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