How to Use filament in a Sentence

filament

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  • This allows the rhubarb filaments to singe and caramelize in the oven’s high heat.
    — Melissa Clark, New York Times, 31 May 2023
  • The filaments are about one light-year wide each, and tens of light-years long.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 11 Sep. 2019
  • Eliminate the black filament on the back of the shrimp.
    — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 9 Feb. 2023
  • This is a filament that hangs off the back of a fishing boat.
    — Lela Nargi, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Still, the researchers are unsure what caused the filaments and the bubbles to form in the first place.
    — Denise Chow, NBC News, 16 Sep. 2019
  • The jacket is made from 100% polyester MTR filament fleece that feels soft and warm.
    — Lindsay Modglin, Health, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Viewers should be able to see the filament of the lightbulb, not the glow surrounding the bulb.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2024
  • Then the filament unwinds and moves through the shaft, flipping right-side out as well.
    — Viviane Callier, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2022
  • The crown is made of rushes wrapped into a wreath and tied with gold filament.
    — Fox News, 6 Sep. 2019
  • Insert the filament through the pen so your kiddo can dream up their 3D art.
    — Stack Commerce, Popular Science, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Made out of hundreds of feet of plastic filament, the full-size camper took a total of nine days to print.
    — Megan Barber, Curbed, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Fronts and filaments In the new study, the team focused on these filaments.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 6 June 2024
  • Researchers are not sure why the grass-like filaments form and what their function is.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 15 Nov. 2019
  • The new research offers a fresh take on the role of the magnetic fields throughout the filaments of the cosmic web.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Each stalk is referred to as a filament and is topped by an anther (which contains the pollen).
    — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Feb. 2022
  • There’s an effort to replace the statue with one made out of a fiber filament.
    — USA TODAY, 3 July 2019
  • Think of the filter in a mask not as a sieve but as a thicket—a dense tangle of miniscule filaments.
    — Ferris Jabr, Wired, 30 Mar. 2020
  • First, the filaments will pull themselves apart as the voids around them squeeze them out of existence.
    — Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2023
  • Use cold or warm water, not hot, which can break down the filament in your pillows.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Cost is free to use tools, with a small fee for materials such as the 3D print filament and vinyl.
    — Jody MacE, charlotteobserver, 11 Aug. 2017
  • The arm is connected to a tube on the ground that feeds a mix of fiberglass and resin into the robot to create the wet filament.
    — Liz Stinson, Curbed, 12 Oct. 2018
  • Their soft filaments ensure that you’re left with a smooth, mark-free finish, and are easy to clean when you’re finished for the day.
    — Alex Rennie, Popular Mechanics, 3 Mar. 2023
  • In other words, a filament might be a pancake viewed along its edge.
    — Nia Imara, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The masks are made with a special filament that can be form-fitted to the user’s face using heat.
    — Mark Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Mar. 2020
  • Don’t use a Microplane; those little filaments of cheese clump in the sauce, rather than melting.
    — Jessica Battilana, SFChronicle.com, 28 June 2019
  • Your fingers will start to glow from the light that passes through the tissue, but the image of the filament is lost by the random path the light takes through your hand.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 4 Aug. 2018
  • All or part of it may be dark because of a broken filament or a sketchy shunt (see glossary).
    — David Agrell, Popular Mechanics, 28 Sep. 2017
  • And he, the boy who never grew up, aloft the Omega, a golden filament in the vibrant violet light.
    — Patti Smith, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
  • The technique employs a collection of molecules that form a filament and dance.
    — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 5 July 2024
  • The country's cooking is heterogenous, but there are filaments that connect the different regions' ways of feeding themselves.
    — Scott Hocker, theweek, 3 Sep. 2024

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