How to Use plasma in a Sentence

plasma

noun
Definition of plasmanext
Synonyms for plasmanext
  • Our new TV is a 50-inch plasma.
  • The plasma, which is the liquid part of the blood, is easy to restore.
    — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 3 Aug. 2022
  • One of the crew members then used the plasma cutter to cut a piece out of the top of the tire as sparks flew out.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 23 Mar. 2024
  • Buy young blood for the plasma and inject it to slow the aging process.
    — Marianne Garvey, CNN, 28 July 2022
  • The tokamak is lined with strong magnets that hold the plasma in.
    — Angela Dewan, CNN, 8 Feb. 2024
  • In some cases, like with this flare, plumes of plasma can also be part of the process.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 5 July 2023
  • The process to collect plasma begins with the patient on a bed.
    — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 7 Oct. 2021
  • The plasma machine is switched off with eight minutes left to go.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 15 June 2024
  • The plasma machine is switched off with eight minutes left to go.
    — Andrea Chang, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2024
  • The plasma contains white blood cells and platelets, which are rich in what are known as growth factors.
    — Kaleigh Fasanella, Allure, 2 Feb. 2022
  • The global plasma industry has, to say the least, a troubling past.
    — Adam Gaffney, The New Republic, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The flow of plasma within the sun creates the star’s magnetic field.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 May 2024
  • One of the most popular in-office ones is platelet-rich plasma (PRP).
    — Audrey Noble, Vogue, 15 July 2024
  • One is that the plasma interacts with the satellite itself, Spencer said.
    — al, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Sunspots are the sites of powerful magnetic storms where plasma wells up and falls back to the surface.
    — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 14 June 2023
  • And then this plasma glows in all kinds of fantastic colors.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Those locations included the brain, plasma, the heart, lymph nodes, adrenal gland, and eyes.
    — Erin Prater, Fortune, 17 Dec. 2022
  • Then it was given different shapes to try to recreate in the plasma.
    — Amit Katwala, Wired, 16 Feb. 2022
  • These beams also heat the plasma and supply it with fresh fuel.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Oct. 2023
  • The coronal holes are cooler and less dense relative to the plasma that surrounds them.
    — Jacquelyne Germain, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Nov. 2022
  • This rechargeable device features a plasma lighter rather than flame for the ability to light things in the wind, rain, or snow.
    — Collin Morgan, Car and Driver, 4 Jan. 2023
  • The flare also produced a mass of CME, which is a cloud of plasma and radiation.
    — Anthony Franze, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Oct. 2024
  • The ball of hot plasma 93 million miles away that happens to make life on earth possible? Yup.
    — New York Times, 13 May 2022
  • The platelet-rich plasma, or PRP, is produced after the blood extraction process.
    — Lauren Tappan, Town & Country, 25 July 2022
  • The test runs a laser along the length of a hair, using its energy to turn it into a plasma for analysis.
    — Evan Bush, NBC News, 5 Jan. 2023
  • After three hours, the team found that drug plasma concentrations in dogs with the patch were more than 150 times higher than in the dogs that took a tablet.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Similarly, in a star’s core, heat can push huge flows of plasma up and out to then crash into the core’s perimeter.
    — Timmy Broderick, Scientific American, 31 July 2023
  • He was first diagnosed with the cancer of the plasma cells in September 2019.
    — Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Aug. 2021
  • These types of solar storms occur when eruptions from the sun, known as coronal mass ejections, hurl giant clouds of plasma into space.
    — Denise Chow, NBC News, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Between the lines: Coronal mass ejections are large bursts of plasma from the Sun that cause geomagnetic storms when they are directed at Earth.
    — Kelly Tyko, Axios, 10 Oct. 2024

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