How to Use strong force in a Sentence

strong force

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Definition of strong forcenext
  • Are strong bones the reason sharks are such a strong force in the ocean?
    — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Attempts to apply this idea to the strong force failed.
    — Andrew Crumey, WSJ, 3 June 2022
  • But in the strong force, there are three fundamental types of charge.
    — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
  • The deuteron is a bound state of a proton and a neutron, and the binding comes from the strong force, which is carried by gluons.
    — Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2022
  • When a window-sized hole opens in an airplane, there is a strong force that sucks air out, experts say.
    — Martin Finucane, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2018
  • Parties of the centre-right and right that are sceptical of the accord will be the strongest force in the new congress.
    — The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
  • The noise that comes out is a bit loud, but the fine steam comes out in a strong force, thoroughly covering your surface.
    — Chris Hachey, BGR, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Gluons, the particles of the strong force, connect with two up quarks and one down quark to create a proton.
    — Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2023
  • In the vote, the AfD emerged as the third-strongest force in the German Parliament and the main opposition party.
    — Katrin Bennhold, New York Times, 2 July 2018
  • More than many of my other pieces, this has a lot of power, being pulled in strong forces of rhythm and whirlwind, which is unique to this piece.
    — Joshua Barone, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Nor does it get involved with the strong force—the one that holds atomic nuclei together.
    — The Economist, 13 Jan. 2018
  • Australian women proved to be a strong force in the country’s elections this weekend.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 23 May 2022
  • These quarks are held together by the strong force, one of the four fundamental forces of nature.
    — Elizabeth Fernandez, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2021
  • The telescope, though, was soon to meet with unusually strong forces of nature.
    — Sarah Scoles, WIRED, 15 June 2018
  • The research is also a window into the strong force, the least understood of all nature's forces.
    — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Kalbitz said the party hopes to become the strongest force there after state elections next year.
    — Christoph Noelting, The Seattle Times, 4 Sep. 2018
  • Thanks for being a strong force and positive influence in my life.
    — Country Living, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Weinberg’s work helped physicists understand how the strong nuclear force emerges from the strong force.
    — Katie McCormick, Quanta Magazine, 12 June 2023
  • Weinberg’s work helped physicists understand how the strong nuclear force emerges from the strong force.
    — WIRED, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Strings also appear in the way the strong force acts among quarks, which are the elementary particles that make up a proton.
    — Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The strong force—the most powerful of the four fundamental forces of nature—keeps this mess confined to the insides of protons and neutrons.
    — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Quarks cling to one another through the strong force so mightily they cannot be isolated.
    — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 5 June 2019
  • Ledbetter is nationally known as a strong force in the fight for closing the pay gap between women and men.
    — The Anniston Star, al, 3 Oct. 2021
  • Critics ask what is the point of maintaining military aid to Lebanon if Hezbollah remains the strongest force in the country.
    — Nicholas Blanford, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Sep. 2017
  • Stefani might have the most artists so far, but Legend's team is shaping up to be a strong force, especially on the technical front.
    — Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya, Billboard, 2 Oct. 2019
  • The fashion industry has also been a strong force in the recent expansion of the anti-fur movement.
    — Lauren Alexis Fisher, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 Mar. 2018
  • The corresponding force particles are called the W and Z bosons (for the weak force), gluons (for the strong force) and photons (for the electromagnetic force).
    — Andreas Crivellin, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2022
  • Since quarks are involved in both cases, experts would have expected the weak-force symmetry-breaking to extend to the strong force as well.
    — Quanta Magazine, 27 Nov. 2019
  • This is, of course, exactly what does happen with the strong nuclear force; gluons are massless, but the strong force is confined and therefore short-range.
    — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 22 Nov. 2012
  • But the theory of the strong force was not developed to explain how nucleons stick together.
    — WIRED, 10 Aug. 2023

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