How to Use bioluminescence in a Sentence

bioluminescence

noun

• Join a night-time paddle through Mosquito Lagoon and explore the beauty of bioluminescence.
  — Joe Rassel, Orlando Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2024
• What's the best way to see bioluminescence at the beach?
  — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 3 Sep. 2023
• But be sure to return after dark, when the bioluminescence seems to make the plants come to life.
  — Marjie Lambert, miamiherald, 30 May 2017
• Their bioluminescence is a phase in the mating ritual at the end of which the eggs are laid.
  — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 7 Nov. 2021
• Tours run from May to October, but Buzzi says the best nights for viewing the bioluminescence are the darkest nights.
  — Sarah Sekula, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2021
• For those of you who still want to head to Disney World and see the magic of the bioluminescence, the two sites are only 45 minutes away from one another.
  — Elizabeth Gulino, House Beautiful, 25 June 2019
• His images from the shower caught shooting stars, the Milky Way, glowing bioluminescence and a ship on the horizon that looks like the sunset.
  — Mark Graves | , oregonlive, 13 Aug. 2023
• The evening honored Edith Widder, an expert on bioluminescence who joined billionaire hedge-fund founder Ray Dalio on a dive to the bottom of the ocean.
  — Bloomberg, latimes.com, 12 Mar. 2018
• Researchers tested 200 species in the lab, finding that at least half of them showed some sort of bioluminescence, Wahlquist reports.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 20 June 2017
• Want to increase your chances of spotting the next bioluminescence event?
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2022
• The team believes that the fish can also use its bioluminescence to avoid being eaten.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 May 2022
• The photo showcases both our galaxy and a bit of the Orion Nebula in the sky and bioluminescence in the ocean—that is light being emitted by marine life in the sea.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 15 Jan. 2024
• In the darkest depths of the sea, the few animals that live there sometimes generate their own light through the remarkable process of bioluminescence.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 10 May 2019
• And on the Pacific coast, bioluminescence – the electric glow of the ocean at night due to tiny plankton – has appeared for the first time in memory on the beaches of Acapulco.
  — Mark Stevenson, USA TODAY, 11 June 2020
• Onboard the Wilkes was the late marine biologist David Lapota, who was working for the navy at the time studying bioluminescence.
  — Sam Keck Scott, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2022
• The bioluminescence is the result of a chemical reaction similar to that of a glow stick, which gives the waves a stunning blue-green glow when disturbed.
  — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 22 Sep. 2017
• The idea is that the bioluminescence produced by some prey when they are attacked may serve to attract larger predators — such a giant squid — that will then eat the attacker.
  — Mark Schrope, Scientific American, 14 Jan. 2013
• Lead author Burford found that the Humboldt squid’s use of bioluminescence is unique.
  — Hannah Knighton, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Apr. 2020
• But at night, according to the Scripps Institute, the organisms create bioluminescence in waves that break on the shore.
  — Jamie Ducharme, Time, 12 May 2018
• Further, scientists on the USS Wilkes ruled out dinoflagellates as the source of the milky seas bioluminescence.
  — Grrlscientist, Forbes, 11 July 2022
• Although hundreds of sea creatures can produce their own light (bioluminescence), H.brasiliana is one of the few snails to have this ability.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2010
• Tours range from a daytime focus on wildlife to a sunset paddle to a starlight bioluminescence adventure, run from two to three hours, and all depart from right from their dock out front.
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 1 July 2021
• Additionally, the scientists noticed that the seals appeared to use some form of bioluminescence to see in the dark.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 17 June 2022
• The chemical signals come from bioluminescence, meaning that the robot is designed to sense the light from the bacteria.
  — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 17 July 2015
• This phenomenon, known as the milky seas, is due to the bioluminescence of the bacteria Vibrio fischeri.
  — New York Times, 7 May 2020
• To help understand why milky seas form, researchers have gotten much better at spotting these swaths of bioluminescence from the skies.
  — K.e.d. Coan, Ars Technica, 30 July 2022
• The red tides are unpredictable and not all produce a bioluminescence.
  — CBS News, 9 May 2018
• Fireflies produce their own light to attract mates in a process called bioluminescence.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Oct. 2023
• Past research by Widder suggests that the bioluminescence can act as a sort of burglar alarm, among other functions.
  — Mark Schrope, Scientific American, 14 Jan. 2013
• Initially, bioluminescence may have evolved to reduce free radicals – chemically unstable atoms that can damage cells.
  — Andrea Quattrini, The Conversation, 14 June 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024