Sample Sentences for
nucleus
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    The small reading group became the nucleus of a schoolwide book club.
    nucleus = center
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    They have the nucleus of a good team.
    nucleus = the center (in this case, key central members)
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    The back is cushioned by a gel-like substance in the nucleus of its disks.
    nucleus = center
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    For example, I was terrified of car accidents, death, cancer, brain tumors, nuclear war, pregnant women, loud noises, strict teachers, elevators, and scads of other things.  (source)
    nuclear = using atomic power to create a large explosion (relating to energy from the center of an atom)
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    Might it not, in the tedious lapse of official life that lay before me, finally be with me as it was with this venerable friend—to make the dinner-hour the nucleus of the day, and to spend the rest of it, as an old dog spends it, asleep in the sunshine or in the shade?  (source)
    nucleus = the most important part
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    The reason is that mammalian red cells have no nuclei, and thus no DNA in their red cells.  (source)
    nuclei = cell centers where DNA is found
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    Languid, heat-raddled ladies, small nucleuses about whom revolve a thousand accouterments: creams, ointments to grease themselves, coloring matter in phials—black, pink, red, white, green, silver—to change the color of hair, eyes, lips, nails, brows, lashes, lids.†  (source)
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    The quake and wave had damaged a nuclear power station in a place called Fukushima, about forty miles up the coast from Shogahama.  (source)
    nuclear = relating to the center of an atom (where power is created by splitting the atom)
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    He tried to poke it out with his fingers, but his shivering frame made him poke too far, and he disrupted the nucleus of the little fire, the burning grasses and tiny twigs separating and scattering.  (source)
    nucleus = the center (or most important part) of something
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    These two hydrogen nuclei, or protons, arrived at the solar system two years ago, then reached the Earth.  (source)
    nuclei = centers of atoms
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    The shields make it so nobody bothers with nuclear weapons anymore.  (source)
    nuclear = using atomic power to create a large explosion (relating to energy from the center of an atom)
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    Others stayed with us a day or a week, but these seven remained, the nucleus of our happy household.†  (source)
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    The rays simply destroyed body cells — caused their nuclei to degenerate and broke their walls.  (source)
    nuclei = centers
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