How to Use chlorophyll in a Sentence

chlorophyll

noun

• The green color of sea moss is due to the presence of chlorophyll.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 24 May 2022
• Veins are always the last parts of the leaves to lose their green color (chlorophyll).
  — Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 30 Aug. 2019
• The chlorophyll that makes plants green is breaking down.
  — Washington Post, 25 July 2019
• State of play: Shorter, warm days and cool nights cue trees to shed the green chlorophyll from their leaves.
  — Alayna Alvarez, Axios, 4 Sep. 2024
• Spinach is a source of thylakoids, the chlorophyll-bearing parts of green leaves.
  — Lisa Drayer, CNN, 8 Mar. 2018
• Your basil may have pests, like spiders mites, that are sucking the chlorophyll out of the leaves.
  — The Editors, Good Housekeeping, 28 June 2022
• Sea moss is a good source of chlorophyll, which is a substance that can help to cleanse your blood.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2022
• Just as grass and leaves have chlorophyll to give them color, so do fruits.
  — Robert Jimison, CNN, 5 June 2017
• U ltraviolet light -- chlorophyll, plants and the source of life.
  — cleveland, 21 Nov. 2022
• The rest is a function of cool evenings and sunny days to burn off the chlorophyll within each leaf.
  — John Meyer, The Know, 24 Sep. 2019
• The main chef of the spring and summer food preparation process is chlorophyll.
  — Kevin Dayhoff, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 2 Oct. 2020
• Tannins are revealed when both chlorophyll and carotenoids break down in the leaves.
  — Paul Douglas, Star Tribune, 10 Oct. 2020
• What happens is that the chlorophyll - which causes the green color of leaves - starts to break down.
  — Meghan Evans, Scientific American, 11 Sep. 2012
• Revel in the changing of the chlorophyll guard in Bishop and at Mammoth and June lakes.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2019
• But production of chlorophyll isn’t the same year round.
  — Shanti Lerner, The Arizona Republic, 16 Sep. 2022
• When the weather is warm, plants and trees produce more chlorophyll, the pigments that cause plants to turn green.
  — Andrew Clark, Indianapolis Star, 24 Oct. 2017
• The color is due to the insects sucking out the chlorophyll along with the nutrient sap.
  — oregonlive, 27 Mar. 2022
• The now-dead leaves were probably infected by the virus and a lack of chlorophyll.
  — oregonlive, 29 May 2022
• As the days get shorter and the air gets cooler, the chlorophyll that makes leaves appear green begins to break down.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2023
• Most textbooks call them plants, but none have chlorophyll.
  — Colin Thubron, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020
• The green color comes from the chlorophyll, which is a natural part of the bacterium.
  — Yousong Ding, Washington Post, 9 May 2018
• The shade increases the amount of chlorophyll content in the leaves, which is what makes them bright green and full of nutrients.
  — Alexandra Sifferlin, Time, 8 Mar. 2018
• The peels of bananas are bright green in color until the chlorophyll inside the peel begins to break down.
  — Robert Jimison, CNN, 5 June 2017
• In spring and summer, the pigment chlorophyll gives leaves their green color.
  — Cassandra Santiago and Amanda Barnett, CNN, 22 Sep. 2017
• In the current wellness world of $11 juices made of kale and chlorophyll and a price tag of $85 to freeze your entire body for three minutes, that's a steal.
  — Brooke Bobb, Vogue, 13 July 2018
• Those deep, soaking rains, Ward said, are starting to break down the chlorophyll, turning the leaves, in a few trees already.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 13 Sep. 2021
• The bare earth on a little hill across the street looks parched, and the leaves on a nearby tree seem to be clinging to their final supplies of chlorophyll.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2019
• As of this writing, #chlorophyll has over 250 million views.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 10 May 2021
• This reveals orange, yellow and brown pigments masked by the chlorophyll.
  — Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 23 Oct. 2024
• As the amount of daylight gets shorter in the fall, chlorophyll production in leaves slows down and eventually stops.
  — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 10 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024