How to Use follicle in a Sentence

follicle

noun

• Each follicle grows hair for a few years and then stops and the hair falls out.
  — Beth Wood, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Aug. 2019
• The fur that then grew out of that melanocyte-less follicle was gray.
  — Connie Chang, Popular Mechanics, 3 July 2023
• The goal is to achieve the same hair length as other follicles.
  — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 14 July 2023
• The follicle, just like the hair fiber, can be different shapes and sizes.
  — Sabina Wizemann, Good Housekeeping, 8 Sep. 2023
• The thread is then pulled slightly to gently remove the hair from the follicle.
  — Harper's Bazaar Staff, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 June 2021
• Hair thickness has a lot to do with the actual size of the follicle.
  — Loni Venti, Allure, 2 Aug. 2020
• This helps to keep the follicles clean and unclogged, making them less prone to pimples.
  — Mona Gohara, Good Housekeeping, 7 Dec. 2018
• And this infection causes the hair not to grow out of the skin, but backwards inside the follicle.
  — Alexis Jones, Women's Health, 24 Feb. 2023
• Follicular cysts form when the follicle doesn't let go of the egg and begins to swell up.
  — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 28 Jan. 2019
• But that's not the only source of transplantable follicles.
  — Marci Robin, Allure, 2 May 2019
• Not to mention, the guys who opt to chop it all off have to think about smaller follicles inside the scalp and future hair growth.
  — Joseph Cheatham, Men's Health, 11 June 2023
• But this scalp massage strengthens that follicle, which in turn strengthens the hairs that grow from it.
  — Adam Hurly, GQ, 15 June 2018
• While alopecia can affect any part of the body, like the arms and legs, hair loss due to alopecia most often affects the follicles on the scalp.
  — Ayana Underwood, SELF, 30 Jan. 2024
• Tweezing, on the other hand, pulls the hair directly from the follicle.
  — Sarah Kinonen, Allure, 23 Dec. 2020
• Once the hair was plucked and forcibly aged, the number of hair follicles with melanocyte stem cells stuck in the follicle bulge increased to nearly 50%.
  — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2023
• Your hair grows out of little pockets in your skin called follicles.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 7 Jan. 2019
• This Curl & Shine Conditioner softens the hair from the follicle to the ends of your hair and locks in moisture to ensure snag-free curls.
  — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 May 2022
• But my lead follicle is growing faster than the others, which is not ideal.
  — refinery29.com, 29 May 2020
• This can create lash loss and scar around the follicle similar to the process that occurs in the scalp with heavy braids and hair extensions.
  — Essence, 16 Aug. 2021
• The thread is quickly lifted to remove several hairs at a time from the follicle.
  — Stephanie Eckelkamp, SELF, 22 Dec. 2021
• Once the egg is released, the empty follicle shrinks to form what's called a corpus luteum, which is supposed to make hormones to get ready for the next egg.
  — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 28 Jan. 2019
• For the next 24 hours, wear cotton underwear and skip workouts, steams, or saunas—all things that can clog your still-open follicles.
  — Harper's Bazaar Staff, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 July 2023
• The way that laser hair removal works is by targeting the pigment in the hair, creating heat that damages the follicle.
  — Brett Baker, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 June 2021
• Exfoliating the scalp keeps your follicles clear of grime that could lead to dull strands and painful breakouts.
  — Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 17 Feb. 2023
• They are known to cause dormant follicles to resume hair production, and maintain the new hair.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 July 2018
• Getting them caught in something can do as much damage and cause as much pain as getting the hair that grows from your follicles latched on to something.
  — Marci Robin, Allure, 7 May 2018
• Straight hair emerges from a round follicle, while oval and twisted oval follicles create wavy and curly hair.
  — Sabina Wizemann, Good Housekeeping, 8 Sep. 2023
• Benzoyl peroxide is a bleaching agent that kills microbes and dries up oil in the follicle.
  — Nerisha Penrose, ELLE, 30 Jan. 2023
• Normally, an egg is released from a little sac on your ovary called a follicle.
  — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 28 Jan. 2019
• To use tea tree oil for eyelash mites, place a small amount of the oil solution on a cotton swab and dab it on the eyelashes, eyelids, and base of the eyelash follicles.
  — Johnstone M. Kim, Verywell Health, 16 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024