How to Use microbe in a Sentence

microbe

noun
Definition of microbenext
  • These microbes have a strange way of thanking us for the meal.
    — Popular Science, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The idea is to let this stuff decay and feed the microbes that will feed your lawn.
    — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Apr. 2020
  • The health effects are dependent on the genus, species and strain of the microbe.
    — Valerie Agyeman, Good Housekeeping, 22 Nov. 2022
  • As the cheeses age, fuzzy and sometimes sticky layers of microbes form on the surfaces of the cheese.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 10 May 2023
  • Windfall researched the use of these microbes for a decade and launched it to clients two years ago.
    — Diana Olick, CNBC, 13 Aug. 2024
  • And to all of you listeners, the yearning for more microbe.
    — Jeffery Delviscio, Scientific American, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Food waste and manure are mixed together, and the microbes from the manure break down the food.
    — Hannah Nguyen, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Feb. 2023
  • The book describes his two decades of work scouring the world’s oceans for microbes from a 100-foot sailboat.
    — David Ewing Duncan, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Too late for midnight kissers: Moist lips are rich in microbes.
    — National Geographic, 1 Jan. 2020
  • Just as there are many ways for microbes to infect a body, there are many ways for epidemics to play out in the body politic.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2020
  • The microbes, which are adapted to life in the cold seafloor, have a slow-motion existence.
    — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2020
  • This suggests that both species acquired the microbe from the same source around the same time—or somehow passed it to each other.
    — Tim Vernimmen, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Dec. 2023
  • That suggests the Borgs may exist inside the microbe, the researchers say.
    — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 15 July 2021
  • Both actions will help wake up and get your microbes into shape and at the right numbers.
    — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Mar. 2020
  • Some microbes are helpful to the body, while others can be harmful.
    — Andrea Michelson, Verywell Health, 29 Aug. 2023
  • These wipes are your trusty sidekick for tackling the microbes lurking in your room.
    — Catherine Garcia, theweek, 28 Aug. 2024
  • Still, the discovery of a tiny dead microbe would offer a granule of hope.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 30 July 2020
  • Researchers can add the microbe to the system — or cut out the middleman and just add the hormone instead.
    — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 17 June 2021
  • Getting a wild microbe to take root in a petri dish requires painstaking work, expert skills, and a lot of luck.
    — Monique Brouillette, Wired, 18 Dec. 2020
  • Over time, as the caves cooled, the diversity of microbes inside the caves increased.
    — Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2024
  • This week Jeff and Jonathan talk about the importance of soil microbes in gardening.
    — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Here, in what are called brine channels, live other microbes.
    — Madeline Ostrander, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 May 2020
  • To learn about the oral health of these people, the researchers compared the microbes found in the resin to modern datasets of both healthy and unhealthy mouth microbiomes.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Jan. 2024
  • On the Martian surface, this hardy microbe could only survive for a few hours.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Oct. 2022
  • This wasn’t the first time a miracle microbe had been found at Yellowstone.
    — Claire Turrell, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Mar. 2024
  • And through a process that’s not very well understood, those microbes can be passed from mother to offspring.
    — Elizabeth Anne Brown, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Just as your body runs on a circadian rhythm, so do your microbes.
    — Jessica Migala, Women's Health, 24 July 2023
  • Time in the sun Before so much as the first microbe existed, there had to be amino acids thought to have formed in one of the primordial oozes of early Earth.
    — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 22 May 2023
  • Inside the rumen, microbes break down the sugars in the grass via fermentation, a process that creates methane as a byproduct.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Food scientists warn that other dangerous microbes, not just avian flu, are proven to lurk in milk that has not been pasteurized, a process that kills germs with high heat.
    — Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 25 Nov. 2024

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