How to Use appendage in a Sentence

appendage

noun

• The court system acts as an appendage to the government.
• These appendages can accelerate up to 23 meters per second (or 50 miles per hour), with the force generated equivalent to that of a bullet fired from a gun.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
• And of course the appendages looked exactly like the tails of pigs.
  — Olga Ingurazova, Smithsonian, 29 Sep. 2017
• The appendage, found at the same quarry as the 2015 skeleton, is long and deep.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Dec. 2020
• Six metal appendages set the hexagon in its place at the center of the medal.
  — Chantelle Lee, TIME, 10 July 2024
• Soon, the appendage starts finding tasty treats and hauling them out of the house.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 29 June 2022
• The other appendage—and there are a lot of legs to image on these things—did not.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 Feb. 2023
• In her 1934 line, a handsy jacket, cape, bag and belt featured the appendage, too.
  — Katharine K. Zarrella, WSJ, 27 Aug. 2022
• Ah, that church or those churches are just an appendage of the party.
  — Jonathan Leeman, Washington Post, 14 June 2018
• The United States banned the sale of shark fins last year but the appendage still fetches a high price in markets abroad.
  — Dino Grandoni, BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2023
• Like scales, spines and hairs, feathers are skin appendages.
  — Michael B. Habib, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2024
• The inside of the old steeple has become an artful appendage in the Q Prime office.
  — Tom Roland, Billboard, 29 Mar. 2024
• The monarch caterpillar has only two such appendages, one at each end of the body.
  — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 12 Mar. 2020
• In the new study, the team identified a pair of large appendages with grasping jagged edges near the creature’s mouth.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 25 July 2024
• The authors can’t yet say exactly what the appendage is for.
  — Troy Farah, Smithsonian, 29 Mar. 2018
• Clode’s third thumb is far from the only robot appendage out there.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 3 Mar. 2023
• Attached to the tip of their tongues is a pink, worm-like appendage, which dangles to attract fish right into the trap.
  — Paul Richards, Field & Stream, 1 Nov. 2023
• The appendage can forcibly tear foliage from branches or nimbly pick up a blade of grass.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2022
• Each swipe through the timeline marks the end of a day of reckoning—for the state of the world at large and for the person attached to each appendage doing the scrolling.
  — Angela Watercutter, Wired, 25 June 2020
• For the elderly, our phones are not an appendage as is true for many younger people.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 22 Feb. 2024
• And that attractive appendage is about to throw Blanco’s scale out of whack.
  — Pat Padua, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2022
• The show is downright cheerful about the glories of the male appendage, but only in its relaxed state.
  — Nina Metz, chicagotribune.com, 17 Mar. 2022
• Get ready to rip the bird's appendages into manageable pieces with your bare hands.
  — Nick Kindelsperger, chicagotribune.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• Some, like whales, use the appendage for swimming, while others, like horses, use them to keep away flies.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Jan. 2024
• But social media apps are appendages for tweens and teens.
  — Hayley Krischer, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2017
• These small, paired appendages near the mouth bite, hold and tear food, and arthropods with these mouthparts are called mandibulates.
  — Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 30 July 2024
• The masterstroke, though, was to turn the library’s old appendage into its new heart.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 4 June 2021
• It is also called crab or claw cactus because of the crab-like appendages on the flat leaf-like segments.
  — Janet B. Carson, arkansasonline.com, 20 Nov. 2023
• On a body, these pieces become like an extra appendage.
  — Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023
• Third place went to Chris Romaine for an image of a cannabis plant leaf, which reveals cannabinoid vesicles as pink bubbles on hair-like plant appendages called trichomes.
  — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 19 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024