How to Use cress in a Sentence

cress

noun

• Thale cress was planted in moon soil, and the good news was all of the seeds sprouted.
  — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2022
• The radishes, cress and rye all grew to a point where seeds could be harvested.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 22 Oct. 2019
• Fold in nearly all of the hazelnuts and cress, then transfer to a platter.
  — Bon Appetit, 19 May 2017
• New to the market this week from Rempel Family Farm is kale and cress.
  — Steve Edwards, Anchorage Daily News, 20 June 2018
• Purple cress is just about to bloom at Hubbard Valley Park in Seville.
  — cleveland.com, 8 May 2017
• Layer roast beef and cress on bottom, then top with pickled onions.
  — The Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen, Good Housekeeping, 21 June 2018
• But by the sixth day, the plants in lunar soil began to grow differently than the control group of thale cress.
  — Tori B. Powell, CBS News, 12 May 2022
• In the Salk study, scientists worked with the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, or thale cress.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2019
• The plant is also known as thale cress, which can produce small white flowers and is native to Eurasia and Africa.
  — Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY, 12 May 2022
• Whitetop, or Hoary cress, is a very tough perennial weed that spreads by rhizomes and seeds.
  — Margaret Lauterbach, idahostatesman, 1 June 2018
• The cress doesn’t grow very well after it’s used up the nutrients that all seeds contain, explains Ralph Fritsche.
  — Lela Nargi, Washington Post, 7 June 2022
• Scientists have even sent the thale cress to the International Space Station and the moon.
  — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 June 2021
• Striking a balance between tender and chewy, the steak tips come with grilled scallions, some peppery cress, and fries.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2021
• But new research shows that something can grow in regolith: a weed called mouse-ear cress (Arabidopsis thaliana).
  — Lela Nargi, Washington Post, 7 June 2022
• Cold-hardy flowers include snowdrops, hellebores and alpine rock cress.
  — Jackalyn Beck, chicagotribune.com, 25 Feb. 2021
• There were other challenges to getting those cress seedlings to germinate.
  — Lela Nargi, Washington Post, 7 June 2022
• The bon bon-like rounds of liver are coated in a mandarin gelee, accented with coconut cream and a scattering of winter cress.
  — Michael Bauer, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Feb. 2018
• The moth trinity is more closely related to similar genes in silkworms, while the plant ones are a closer match for genes in the mustard cress.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 12 Apr. 2011
• To make this discovery, the researchers looked at what happens when dodders infect a kind of cress—Arabidopsis thaliana.
  — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 9 Jan. 2018
• The researchers duplicated their work in thale cress, a flowering plant.
  — Erika K Carlson, Discover Magazine, 19 July 2018
• Cheatgrass, Canada thistle, hoary cress and emerald ash borer complete the top 5.
  — Phil Drake, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2018
• Kentucky glade cress grows only in parts of Jefferson and Bullitt counties.
  — James Bruggers, The Courier-Journal, 7 Oct. 2017
• Using genes from wine grapes that cause the fruit to become fleshy and ripen, the researchers have increased the succulence of mouse-ear cress, creating leaves that store more water than normal.
  — Kurt Kleiner, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Nov. 2022
• The thale cress, Arabidopsis thaliana, was the first plant to have its entire genome sequenced and is popular in biology research.
  — Discover Magazine, 21 Mar. 2014
• This pasta also goes extremely well with a peppery mix of arugula or cress with bitter chicories that will stand up to the extreme savoriness of this short rib ragu.
  — Christian Reynoso, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Dec. 2021
• Some of the courses include poached salmon with sauce mousseline, compressed cucumber and dill; duet of duck and squab with brûléed Calvados apples and cress; and gilded eclair.
  — Journal Sentinel, 31 Jan. 2023
• Then Perricone had to get off the phone but promised to send me immediately the recipe for a light, luminous cream that anoints the simple beef, salt, crouton, and cress mixture at Manfreds.
  — Tamar Adler, Vogue, 12 Apr. 2019
• But despite the fact that scientists have scrutinized the plant, Aribidopsis thalania, since the 16th century, the thale cress still manages to surprise.
  — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 June 2021
• The scientists filled each well with a gram of lunar soil, added nutrients and water, and poked in a few seeds of Arabidopsis thaliana, or thale cress, a small flowering plant native to Eurasia and Africa.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 May 2022
• Dutch cress grower Rob Baan has enlisted high-tech helpers to tackle a pest in his greenhouses: palm-sized drones seek and destroy moths that produce caterpillars that can chew up his crops.
  — Mike Corder, Star Tribune, 7 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 25 Aug 2024