How to Use nuclear winter in a Sentence

nuclear winter

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  • This is about the kids, and the challenge of surviving this nuclear winter of a school year.
    — Ellen McCarthy, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2020
  • After the nuclear winter, it has been said, bright shoots will arise from the rubble.
    — Jamie Kitman, Car and Driver, 1 Jan. 2023
  • Bridich is trying to tap-dance around a nuclear winter that’s partly of his own making.
    — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 21 Jan. 2020
  • How to describe Seattle skies this past week, skies that should be blue but instead looked like a nuclear winter?
    — Erik Lacitis, The Seattle Times, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Not when the skies go dark with the asteroid version of a nuclear winter, dust and debris covering the sun.
    — Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 19 Nov. 2018
  • Some researchers say the asteroid, which may have led to a thermal pulse or something like a nuclear winter, is what did the dinosaurs in.
    — Valerie Ross, Discover Magazine, 13 July 2011
  • Inevitably that gives rise to doubts about the firm’s strategy, which is to slash costs and sit tight, hoping the industry’s nuclear winter ends.
    — The Economist, 5 Oct. 2017
  • The researchers are certain that the fish died within an hour of the asteroid strike, and not as a result of the massive wildfires or the nuclear winter that came in the days and months that followed.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 23 Feb. 2022
  • What followed were global wildfires, years of nuclear winter and acid rain.
    — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 24 May 2018
  • Then, in 1995, the volcano erupted, leaving the island looking like a nuclear winter.
    — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 20 Aug. 2021
  • After the blasts comes the fallout, the depthless smoke of nuclear winter, the ensuing end of the crops that sustain our mortal bodies, and the certain starvation of those too unlucky to have survived the war.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 5 Jan. 2020
  • But as Halloran points out, that number doesn't even take into account the nuclear winter that could devastate crops around the world and lead to a massive famine after such a war.
    — Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, 11 Aug. 2017
  • Buildings are chard Brutalist monoliths, and the cold overcast skies overhead bring to mind nuclear winter.
    — Mark Hughes, Forbes, 8 May 2021
  • What if, instead of climate change or nuclear winter, we were delivered that deus ex machina?
    — New York Times, 20 June 2018
  • The newspaper covered topics including survival in a nuclear winter, and how to deal with depressed teens who watch the TV special.
    — Peter Hartlaub, SFChronicle.com, 3 Oct. 2019
  • The brilliance of his plan is its simplicity: an atomic exchange with North Korea will bring on nuclear winter.
    — Cincinnati.com, 20 Sep. 2017
  • The impact would have thrown trillions of tons of dust into the atmosphere, blocking the sunlight and causing a worldwide nuclear winter, leading to the collapse of entire ecosystems.
    — David Bressan, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2021
  • But what are the likely effects on global food production during a nuclear winter?
    — Matt Benoit, Discover Magazine, 7 May 2022
  • The years that followed would have been like the apocalyptic nuclear winter that scientists say would follow a nuclear war, complete with raging fires and black-out skies.
    — Nola Taylor Redd, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
  • Time for your weekly nuclear winter forecast: The likelihood of fallout has lessened somewhat, with chances of a full-scale nuclear war looking slim.
    — Jason Fields, The Week, 14 Apr. 2022
  • During nuclear winter, wild foods surviving in tropical forests will include baobab trees, mopane worms, and palm weevils.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 22 June 2022
  • Thankfully, nuclear winter isn’t going to befall us quite yet.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2010
  • Grose herself remembers lying awake at night as a child worrying about nuclear winter.
    — Stephanie H. Murray, The Week, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Its annual settings are attended with a kind of fretful enthusiasm — a bit like Groundhog Day, if Punxsutawney Phil was the herald of nuclear winter, with no spring ever to come again.
    — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 20 Jan. 2022
  • That’s because laurel has evolved to withstand fire, flood, nuclear winter, and, ultimately, Clayton.
    — Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Oct. 2022
  • With baseball entering its second month of a nuclear winter launched by a Dec. 2 lockout by owners, all transactions involving players have been frozen.
    — Dan Schlossberg, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2022
  • Nuclear gamesmanship suggests that a first strike is a mistake, since in time, a retaliatory strike may very well ruin the striker and possibly all of us in a political nuclear winter.
    — Dan Rockmore, Slate Magazine, 6 Apr. 2017
  • Yu says these particles weren’t previously considered in nuclear winter models because of the assumption that they’ll be quickly degraded in the stratosphere.
    — Madeleine Stone, National Geographic, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Toronto was working with a friendly cap environment and had room to build out the supporting cast; Portland's roster is already incredibly expensive and the rest of the league is creeping toward financial nuclear winter.
    — Andrew Sharp, SI.com, 20 Apr. 2018
  • It would also be followed by a nuclear winter scenario, in which particles of dust and ash sent skyward would enter the upper atmosphere, blocking sunlight and lowering temperatures globally for several years.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 22 Apr. 2022

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