How to Use inhibitor in a Sentence

inhibitor

noun

• A year ago, the future of IDO inhibitors looked bright.
  — Ken Garber, Science | AAAS, 9 May 2018
• Add water to the jellied mass of seeds to leach and ferment away the inhibitors.
  — Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2019
• In the case of Flint, corrosion inhibitors were not added to the water.
  — Georeen Tanner, Fox News, 17 Aug. 2018
• All three are in a class called neuraminidase inhibitors.
  — NBC News, 26 June 2018
• In March, the FDA approved the first new immune checkpoint inhibitor in eight years.
  — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 21 Sep. 2022
• At issue is the market for medicines called CDK 4/6 inhibitors.
  — Matthew Herper, STAT, 27 Mar. 2023
• Foam inhibitors: The crankshaft whipping through the oil in the pan causes foaming.
  — Timothy Dahl, Popular Mechanics, 18 Jan. 2018
• One key factor is the presence of enhancers or inhibitors in these food sources.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 7 Aug. 2023
• Kind of out of the blue, this group had this small [enzyme inhibitor] program for two or three main targets.
  — Shraddha Chakradhar, STAT, 21 Nov. 2019
• Next, use a rust inhibitor or converter to impede the tin worm's progress.
  — Ben Wojdyla, Popular Mechanics, 8 Sep. 2020
• Hung’s deal marked the first big acquisition of a PARP inhibitor.
  — Ellis Simani, ProPublica, 22 June 2023
• In the studies, two-thirds of the men took one of the androgen receptor inhibitors, while a third took a placebo.
  — Pam Belluck, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2018
• The group’s lawsuit asks the court to order the city to treat the water with corrosion inhibitors, and to replace the old lead service lines.
  — Nick Corasaniti, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2019
• The nerve agent is a cholinesterase inhibitor, part of the class of substances that doctors at Charite said last week had shown up in Navalny's system.
  — Arkansas Online, 2 Sep. 2020
• The pool also has a six-inch top railing made with resin and UV inhibitors to prevent it from fading.
  — Veronica Graham, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 June 2023
• Now the operation of the device you've been given isn't an inhibitor to the user’s work.
  — Leon Gilbert, Forbes, 10 June 2021
• They're absorbed by the body and can act as inhibitors of inflammation throughout the body.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 3 Sep. 2019
• Prep Probably the biggest inhibitor to making new friends (and lovers) is fear.
  — Anna Pulley, RedEye Chicago, 14 May 2018
• Next, the effectiveness of the enzyme inhibitor needs to be tested against the entire virus, not just the enzyme.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 20 Mar. 2018
• The drug has been on the market since 2014 for ovarian cancer, and is the first in a new class of medicines called PARP inhibitors to be approved for breast cancer.
  — Linda A. Johnson, Houston Chronicle, 13 Jan. 2018
• When the inhibitor was present, the RNA had no effect on the animals it was injected into.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 16 May 2018
• The nerve agent is a cholinesterase inhibitor, part of the class of substances that doctors at the Charite initially identified in Navalny.
  — Geir Moulson, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Sep. 2020
• This compound is an inhibitor of enzymes that break down proteins.
  — Brittany Edelmann, Discover Magazine, 14 Oct. 2022
• The first checkpoint inhibitor was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2011 to treat melanoma.
  — Mayo Clinic Staff, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2023
• All got a type of drug, known as a checkpoint inhibitor, that blocks a crucial protein from enabling tumors to evade T cells.
  — Byjocelyn Kaiser, science.org, 16 Apr. 2023
• Neuraminidase inhibitors such as oseltamivir stop this protein cutting the virus loose from a cell and so stop the virus spreading to other cells.
  — Naomi Lubick, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2019
• The vertical shift — movement away from the plane of the crystal — acts as the activator in the Turing equations, while the shift within the plane acts as the inhibitor.
  — Quanta Magazine, 10 Aug. 2021
• The lethal cocktail acts as a cholinesterase inhibitor, blocking an enzyme the nervous system needs to function.
  — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2020
• Proteasome inhibitors: These drugs block an enzyme that breaks down proteins inside cancer cells.
  — Sarah Hudgens, Health, 23 Sep. 2024
• This cold period causes natural germination inhibitors to break down.
  — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024