How to Use shielding in a Sentence

shielding

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  • Yes, there are lots of hand-wavy ideas about lava tubes and regolith shielding.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Perhaps there was a problem with the shielding around the engines to protect them from heating.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Engineers have added shielding to protect the top of the stainless steel booster from the engine blast.
    — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 8 Nov. 2023
  • The machine contained Cobalt-60 and was removed from its shielding before being left in a field.
    — WIRED, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The underside of the car’s pointy nose is protected with aluminum shielding.
    — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The weight of the shielding would be even greater except for several tricks that engineers have devised.
    — Thomas E. Stimson, Popular Mechanics, 15 July 2021
  • Hiding some 15 feet under the surface of Mars or the moon would provide all the radiation shielding of home.
    — Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2017
  • Or use fixtures on short stakes with rims or other shielding that directs light downward.
    — Nevin Martell, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Sunscreens don't have to be heavy to provide adequate UV shielding.
    — Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 13 June 2022
  • The first titanium Project Alaska Omega watch had a shielding case of anodized aluminum in bright red.
    — Chris Hall, WIRED, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Painting on the shielding ensures a more thorough coverage at much less cost.
    — James Conca, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021
  • To alert drivers, warning signs, shielding, message boards and five billboards will be placed around the construction zone.
    — Morgan Womack, The Indianapolis Star, 31 May 2023
  • This new system provided more shielding than the one used during the Shuttle program.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 3 Apr. 2022
  • One question patients may have is why X-ray technicians and doctors continue to wear shielding when in the X-ray room.
    — Annalisa Merelli, STAT, 2 Feb. 2024
  • But adding much more shielding might pile on more weight than the rubber-and-metal earthquake-resistant foundation can bear.
    — Charles Seife, Scientific American, 15 June 2023
  • So, their spaceship would need to provide some kind of radiation shielding.
    — ABC News, 25 July 2021
  • The connectors are gold-plated and each has multiple shielding.
    — Chris Hachey, BGR, 19 Aug. 2021
  • Some of the radiation emitted by each person is re-absorbed by that person, called self-shielding.
    — Hannah Hudnall, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Much depends on the type of radioactive isotope within a device and whether it is contained within shielding or open to the elements.
    — Tara Subramaniam, CNN, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Apple began removing the metal shielding from the façade of its downtown Portland store overnight, with the store’s floor-to-ceiling windows emerging for the first time in nearly three years.
    — Mike Rogoway | Mrogoway@oregonian.com, oregonlive, 22 Mar. 2023
  • From these data, the team found that super-Earths can keep their cores liquid long enough for magnetic fields to offer a billion years or more of planetary shielding.
    — Adam Frank, The Atlantic, 3 Jan. 2023
  • In recent weeks technicians have added shielding to protect the launch mount and tower from the extreme heating from the launch of Super Heavy, which is powered by 33 Raptor engines.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 1 Apr. 2023
  • That shielding is particularly pronounced at the peak of the 11-year solar cycle, when the sun’s magnetic field is strongest.
    — Katherine Kornei, Scientific American, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Not just in a nipping, lifting, and shielding sort of way, but emotionally supportive?
    — Larissa Hofmann, Vogue, 17 Oct. 2023
  • That’s why spacecraft returning to Earth or landing on Mars carry heat shielding to protect themselves.
    — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Gloves in a Bottle is a remarkable shielding lotion that’s ideal for anyone who washes their hands a lot or simply suffers from dry, cracked skin.
    — Jennifer Chan, Peoplemag, 9 Dec. 2023
  • The mountain's shielding means the military can remain in contact with satellites above even if workers are completely sealed inside.
    — Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2023
  • His own private life and affairs, unlike a pretty young girl’s, seemed obviously worthy of shielding.
    — Sarah E. Igo, The Atlantic, 6 Apr. 2022
  • The unsightly shielding became a symbol of the ills that plagued downtown in the aftermath of vandalism and unrest in the summer of 2020 and of the pandemic’s lingering effects on Portland.
    — Mike Rogoway | Mrogoway@oregonian.com, oregonlive, 22 Mar. 2023
  • One $5 cable—since discontinued on Amazon—has no shielding, an ungrounded and non-reinforced shell, rubber strain relief, and has the pins running straight to the wires, with no board in between.
    — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 18 Oct. 2023

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