How to Use metabolize in a Sentence

metabolize

verb
Definition of metabolizenext
  • Food is metabolized by the body.
  • This gives the body enough time to digest and metabolize the CBD.
    — Carol Lee, Discover Magazine, 6 Jan. 2024
  • And, in the body, both are likely to get metabolized to psilocin, Moss said.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 5 July 2024
  • On the menu: fats like cheese and nuts that metabolize slowly and last all day.
    — Outside Online, 19 Oct. 2020
  • The toughest part of this show was the tone and not knowing how it would be metabolized.
    — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 June 2024
  • That may have something to do with the way the pills are metabolized, Barnett said.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 24 June 2024
  • The drug is metabolized very quickly, but remains in the body for a long time, well after the high wears off.
    — Robert McCoppin, chicagotribune.com, 21 Oct. 2019
  • This does not explain the high levels of the drug in his system at the time of his death, as ketamine metabolizes in a few hours.
    — Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 June 2024
  • The method of consumption plays a role in how quickly the body metabolizes Delta 8 THC.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 12 Aug. 2023
  • As the city grew, the tides both helped and hindered as Boston struggled to metabolize its own wastes.
    — Courtney Humphries, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Apr. 2018
  • There seems to be something wrong with the way Brittany’s body metabolizes liquor.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 21 May 2024
  • Plant roots need oxygen to metabolize and pay the oxygen back to us through their leaf function.
    — oregonlive, 27 Mar. 2022
  • These foods take longer to break down and metabolize due to their complex starch structure.
    — Barbie Cervoni Ms, Rd, Cdces, Cdn, Verywell Health, 4 May 2023
  • The root of the problem is a lack of vitamin D, which the body requires to metabolize calcium and build strong bones.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 28 Oct. 2022
  • How the body digests and metabolizes food is at the core of nutrition science.
    — Sheah Rarback, miamiherald, 17 Oct. 2017
  • Milk is not advised as a drink for infants because it cannot be metabolized until around the age of one.
    — CNN, 21 Oct. 2019
  • What's more, women tend to metabolize the meds more slowly.
    — Courtney B. Rubin, Good Housekeeping, 27 July 2017
  • The joy is that being able to metabolize the reality of the difficulty of the world.
    — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The Lancet study said that when the children's blood sugar level dropped, the body would start to metabolize fatty acids to produce a boost of glucose.
    — Swati Gupta, CNN, 13 June 2019
  • Actors must get used to rejection, but few metabolize it as Culkin seems to: with a zip of pleasure.
    — Mattie Kahn, Vogue, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Still, Zellweger has become wary of projects that ask her to take on too much without the time to properly metabolize it all.
    — New York Times, 25 Sep. 2019
  • One variation of the CYP1A2 gene prompts the body to rapidly metabolize caffeine.
    — Gretchen Reynolds, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2018
  • With her help, his angst metabolized into a searing peek under the hood.
    — Peter Rubin, Longreads, 6 July 2023
  • And while much of the sugar found in kombucha is metabolized in the fermentation process, some is still present when consumed.
    — Christina Manian, Rdn, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Noradrenaline is synthesized in the body from dopamine, which in turn is metabolized from L-dopa.
    — Denise Gellene, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2018
  • When consumed, delta 8 is metabolized by the body and excreted through urine.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Because most of the NDMA would have been metabolized before reaching the urine, the actual amount in the body could have been much higher, the researchers wrote.
    — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 28 Oct. 2019
  • When taken in pill form, researchers say that phenylephrine is metabolized by the body so well that only a small portion makes it to the bloodstream, per CNN.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The test examines a dozen genes to determine how well the patient will metabolize certain drugs and how his or her brain will respond to them.
    — Lucette Lagnado, WSJ, 6 May 2018
  • Read: Playing God with the atmosphere Bacteria that metabolize carbon could also be of use in the ocean.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 20 Sep. 2024

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