How to Use organism in a Sentence

organism

noun
Definition of organismnext
  • A human being is a complex organism.
  • This galaxy of organisms makes up the base of the oceanic food web.
    — WIRED, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The Imperia speakers made a sound that was wide and vivid and full of dirty weight, the breath of an organism.
    — Sasha Frere-Jones, Harper’s Magazine , 9 Nov. 2022
  • The presence of the organism — thought to be a sea snail — kept the 14-deck Viking Orion adrift 16 miles off the coast of Adelaide, Australia.
    — Natasha Frost, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2023
  • In other words, the Rangers are poised to flood the zone with arms, which really is the best approach to an organism like the bullpen.
    — Dallas News, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Glowing organisms, like the ones observed in the video, are most commonly found in the ocean.
    — Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The catch was that introners were only known to exist in a few organisms.
    — Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
  • These are cells that can grow and live outside of a living organism so they can be kept in a petri dish or a flask.
    — Eva Amsen, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Yet, on the species level, an organism might not need to survive to be reborn.
    — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Image in the Age of A.I. Like a living organism, the project has morphed and evolved alongside its founders.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Among the most vulnerable organisms to this change are the world’s corals.
    — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Either way, the strength of the germline signal regulates the organism’s life span, Dillin said.
    — Quanta Magazine, 8 Jan. 2024
  • To further test the hypothesis that the organism was eating the virus, the researchers added dye to the chlorovirus DNA.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Watch this video to see a few organisms invisible to the naked eye.
    — Alexandra Banner, CNN, 20 Sep. 2024
  • So mycelium is the organism that mushrooms grow from and the substrate is their food and habitat.
    — Bon Appétit, 9 Oct. 2024
  • The egg and each polar body each contain half of the complement of genes needed to make a new organism.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 18 Feb. 2024
  • The harmful effects of a red tide are caused by toxins released by the organism.
    — Li Cohen, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Like corals do in reef ecosystems, the organisms of the open ocean have certain tolerances for heat.
    — WIRED, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The massive organism covers an area of 77 square miles.
    — Danielle Hall, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2022
  • The event exposes the organic carbon from the remains of long dead organisms in the rocks to oxygen in the air and water.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The organism shown in these pictures was big in comparison — maybe about the width of that human hair.
    — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 2 Nov. 2022
  • When these organisms are moved by waves or the paddle of a kayak or canoe, the light becomes visible.
    — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 3 Sep. 2023
  • But many of the paths — routes by which, one mutation at a time, organisms could change their genotypes — reached fairly high points.
    — Quanta Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
  • The organism that causes red tide is back in waters off the coast of Southwest Florida.
    — Ryan Ballogg, Orlando Sentinel, 26 Oct. 2022
  • In 2017, a team of scientists from Germany trekked to Chile to investigate how living organisms sculpt the face of the Earth.
    — Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 12 July 2023
  • Even if millions of cells are destroyed this way, these actions protect the whole organism.
    — Jessica Dulong, CNN, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Insects are the most skilled flyers There are organisms other than insects that can fly.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Ars Technica, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Like the band’s namesake, The Enduring Spirit is a peculiar organism blooming on the bones of old-school death.
    — Pitchfork, 6 Dec. 2023
  • This can provide clues about the types of organisms that were present—because different types of life absorb the heavy and light carbon isotopes at different rates.
    — Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 21 Oct. 2024
  • These tiny creatures are extremophiles, adapted for life in environments that would kill most other organisms.
    — Tom Hawking, Popular Science, 24 Oct. 2024

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