How to Use globule in a Sentence

globule

noun
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  • The fractal globule makes perfect sense as the shape of a genome.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 29 Dec. 2011
  • Photos of the spill show large chunky globules and long slicks of oil floating on the Gulf's surface.
    — Li Cohen, CBS News, 21 Nov. 2023
  • The gluten is added last, to prevent globules from forming.
    — Douglas Heingartner, IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2018
  • These globules can be seen as dark, small, dense pockets of gas and dust throughout the image.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Milk contains both fat globules and tiny capsules of protein, and both play a role in the type of foam produced.
    — Helen Czerski, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2018
  • Inside, perfectly preserved, is not just this haunting tableau, but also the leg and part of the body of an adult male spider that had the bad luck to step in the same resin globule.
    — Jason Daley, Discover Magazine, 10 Jan. 2013
  • My high-tech globule was air-conditioned, with a huge bed perfect for stargazing.
    — Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Instead of being pink in the middle, the Beast Burger was light brown and spotted with yellowish globules.
    — Marisa Kendall, The Mercury News, 8 June 2017
  • Projected on the walls of the installation are phantasmal globules of red, green, and blue.
    — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2017
  • Our perfectly round ice cream balls also had to be hollow (to give the appearance of more ice cream than there really was in the globule atop the cone).
    — Julie Giuffrida, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Along the San Jacinto River, just across from one hazardous waste site, poisonous globules of mercury appeared on the banks days after the storm.
    — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2017
  • But when heat is introduced, the protein structure falls apart and the emulsion breaks—the fat globules come together into a greasy pool and the proteins congeal to form a stringy mess.
    — Sarah Jampel, Bon Appétit, 28 Jan. 2020
  • Nebulae come in many shapes and sizes, from small dark globules to immense giant molecular clouds.
    — Philip Plait, Scientific American, 24 Apr. 2023
  • In the 1990s Gilbert and George went through a phase of depicting themselves naked, surrounded by magnified turds and giant globules of their own semen and urine.
    — The Economist, 15 Nov. 2019
  • After mixing alcohol and aloe vera gel in a bowl, the mix created weird globules, and the gel began to separate and sink to the bottom.
    — New York Times, 3 Apr. 2020
  • There’s also some promising research about the benefits of a compound called the milk-fat globule membrane, which is intact in cheese but not in milk or butter.
    — Gilad Edelman, Wired, 22 Feb. 2021
  • Diagram of the phosopholipid layer surrounding a fat globule [3].
    — Vince C Reyes, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2013
  • One type of muon detector, called a nuclear emulsion film, catches muons as lines of little black globules.
    — Ben Guarino, Alaska Dispatch News, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Globules form due to the long-chain mucus proteins that exist in the frog saliva, much like human saliva; these proteins tangle like pasta when swirled.
    — Alexis Noel and David Hu, Smithsonian, 1 Feb. 2017
  • Cows' milk, for example, has much larger fat globules than human milk and would have been more difficult for infants to digest.
    — Megan Gannon, National Geographic, 25 Sep. 2019
  • The set by George Tsypin is an ever-present collection of plastic globules of various sizes and shapes, the biggest ones becoming the man-eating monster.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Through their research over the past few years, Aiden and his colleagues have discovered that at the level of a megabase—1 million base pairs—the human genome has wrapped itself into a structure known as a fractal globule.
    — Katherine Harmon, Scientific American, 2 Dec. 2011
  • In this case, those details include delicious globules of fat floating atop ramen made with precision and care.
    — Longreads, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Fat embolization occurs when globules of fat break free from surrounding tissue and travel through the body, becoming lodged in blood vessels or the lungs and blocking the flow of blood or oxygen.
    — Health.com, 25 Sep. 2017
  • In a large mixing bowl, combine all ingredients by hand, making sure to squeeze the mixture through fingers to blend and bond, especially the bread, which tends to form little globules.
    — San Antonio Express-News, 16 Jan. 2018
  • This homogenizes the liquid, dispersing the fat and stabilizing the tasty globules with milk protein.
    — Popular Mechanics, 4 Aug. 2017
  • Then, looking at tattoo biopsies under the microscope, scientists saw macrophages laden with ink globules, and the story of tattoos became one of the immune system.
    — Steph Yin, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2018
  • The origins of this illness are often mysterious, but in its typical form the spaces where young blood cells are supposed to be formed gradually fill up with globules of white fat.
    — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, 15 July 2019
  • They are made possible by new technologies that, for example, whip coconut oil and cocoa butter into tiny globules of white fat that give the Beyond Burger the marbled appearance of ground beef.
    — Julia Moskin, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2019
  • Little white globules of coconut oil, intended to simulate natural marbling in meat, melted and sputtered.
    — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 18 Aug. 2023

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