How to Use biomass in a Sentence

biomass

noun

• Then, too, big trees have lots of biomass in the form of limbs.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 30 June 2022
• The biomass of the world’s poultry is three times that of all the wild birds combined.
  — Boyce Upholt, The New Republic, 19 Sep. 2022
• In fact, more than half of the biomass of prairie plants are below ground.
  — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 9 Dec. 2024
• The bones, which make up half the biomass, are the last to decay, taking 7 years.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 19 June 2017
• The index is based on the bloom’s biomass — the amount of algae — during the peak 30 days of the bloom.
  — cleveland, 30 June 2022
• Wheat, rice and maize are likely the grasses with the highest biomass in the world.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 May 2022
• For sheer biomass, nothing in the plant kingdom beats a tree.
  — Tamar Haspel, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2023
• The spinach grown next to one of the two exhaust vents on the roof had four times the biomass of spinach grown next to a control fan.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 15 Nov. 2022
• The total biomass of animals in the sea could drop by as much as 15%.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2019
• The mansion uses spring water from the area and a biomass boiler to heat the home.
  — Dana Givens, Robb Report, 8 Nov. 2022
• The mission aims to track changes in biomass over time to learn more about the carbon cycle.
  — Popular Mechanics, 22 Dec. 2022
• The biomass of housecats is about double that of African elephants and four times that of moose.
  — Byelizabeth Pennisi, science.org, 27 Feb. 2023
• The extent of the biomass is to me at least unexpected.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 13 Jan. 2022
• Pigs, which can also carry the flu, make up even more biomass.
  — Boyce Upholt, The New Republic, 19 Sep. 2022
• The biomass industry says the current rules make sense.
  — Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2021
• In woodlands, the number of arthropod species had dropped by more than a third, and biomass by forty per cent.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2021
• Over the last two decades, the USGS work has shown a general decline in the lake's prey fish biomass.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Sep. 2020
• The tips of each branch can grow three inches a day and a plant can double its biomass every two weeks.
  — Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 8 July 2024
• Among marine mammals, baleen whales account for more than half of the biomass.
  — Byelizabeth Pennisi, science.org, 27 Feb. 2023
• Of all the complaints raised against biomass power, emissions may be the loudest.
  — Jane Braxton Little, Wired, 27 June 2020
• The largest one percent of trees—the giants—store half of the above-ground biomass carbon in tropical forests.
  — Ellyn Lapointe, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024
• On land, soils form the largest carbon sink, even larger than the biomass of all forests put together.
  — Emanuela Barbiroglio, Forbes, 4 May 2021
• There is a higher $2,000 credit limit for heat pumps and biomass stoves.
  — Ashlea Ebeling, WSJ, 8 Aug. 2022
• As the permafrost thaws, microbes in the soil awaken and begin to feast on the defrosting biomass.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
• In fact, setting fire to biomass, gas, and wood now cause more premature deaths in the U.S. than burning coal.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 12 May 2021
• The fisheries of the world are starting to turn their attention to the twilight zone because of all this biomass that's down there.
  — Nadia Leigh-Hewitson, CNN, 16 Nov. 2021
• After all, there is more biomass in ants than elephants on this planet.
  — Russ Conser, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021
• Black spruce burn spectacularly, but most of the biomass that goes up in smoke is the duff itself.
  — Randi Jandt, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2021
• The ultimate goal of this project is make more efficient woody biomass.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 5 Dec. 2018
• One estimate says that forests suck about 30% of the planet-warming greenhouse gas out of the air each year, sequestering it in their biomass.
  — Michael Franco, New Atlas, 4 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Jan 2025