How to Use membrane in a Sentence

membrane

noun

• Turn the lobster tail over and cut the spiny membrane in the back.
  — Elizabeth Karmel, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
• The membrane at the top would have been last, overlapping the side pieces.
  — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2023
• Inside the membrane of the cell wall, a minute world on which all of life depends.
  — Wsj Books Staff, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2022
• The membrane of the whale liver is the skin of our drums used for the songs, the dances to tell the story of the people of Tikigaq.
  — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 14 July 2022
• The side pieces would have gone on next, overlapping the first piece of membrane.
  — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2023
• When a dog starts to get hot, blood will rush to the surfaces of the tongue, gums and membranes to get rid of the excess heat.
  — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 18 June 2024
• Next, cut open the gourd and remove all the stringy membranes and seeds, saving the seeds for later.
  — Christina Manian, Rdn, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Oct. 2023
• Ribs have a thick membrane along the bone side of the ribs called the silverskin that should be removed.
  — Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News, 7 Feb. 2022
• Peel the large end of the egg under the thing membrane with your fingers just enough to make room for your spoon to get in there and do the rest of the work.
  — Maryal Miller Carter, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2023
• Fatty acids are fragments of lipids that make up the cell’s membranes.
  — Fabian Klenner, JSTOR Daily, 13 June 2024
• The water helps to separate the egg from the membrane and also washes off any of the pesky eggshell pieces.
  — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 7 Aug. 2024
• The membranes protect fans from the sun and rain while still permitting fresh air.
  — Sam Lubell, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2024
• Once the water gets under the membrane of the shell, an egg peels easily.
  — Paul Kita, Men's Health, 15 Dec. 2022
• Transparent lens membrane of the right eye covers the iris.
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 15 Dec. 2023
• Where’s the membrane between song and prose and poetry?
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 23 July 2023
• Remove the seeds and membranes from this serrano to dial down the heat, or leave them in to keep things hot.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 16 July 2023
• Your ability to smell starts in the mucus membranes of our nose.
  — Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 15 Aug. 2023
• This gives the eggshell’s protective coat time to wear off, which makes the white less likely to stick to the inner membrane and shrink.
  — USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2022
• Heating from the inside out breaks down the citrus membranes.
  — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 23 Apr. 2023
• The whole virus enters the cell in a bubble instead of membrane entry.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
• That’s because both the egg white and the thin membrane holding the yolk together thin out as an egg ages.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 11 Apr. 2022
• Older eggs are easier to peel than fresh eggs because as the egg ages, the membrane pulls away from the inside of the shell.
  — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 2 Feb. 2024
• The membranes of pterosaur wings had to stay strong and resist tearing while staying thin, even at high wind speeds.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Sep. 2023
• This means that the membrane of these cells is ‘electrically charged’.
  — Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022
• The parietal pleura is a membrane that folds back on itself to form a two-layered sac.
  — Howard Cohen Miami Herald (tns), al, 26 July 2022
• Meningitis is a disease that causes swelling of the membranes that surround the brain and spinal cord.
  — Sarah Volpenhein, Journal Sentinel, 21 May 2024
• Two spices are derived from each nutmeg fruit — what the world knows as nutmeg is the seed, while the spice mace is the red membrane surrounding the seed.
  — Muktita Suhartono Nyimas Laula, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024
• In this process, salt is filtered out of the saline water when it's pushed through a semipermeable membrane with tiny pores.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 12 Feb. 2023
• Kipnis and his team focused on a vein that passes through this membrane.
  — Jon Hamilton, NPR, 26 June 2024
• Holding fruit over bowl, using paring knife to slice between membranes to release segment.
  — Gretchen McKay, Twin Cities, 17 July 2024

Last Updated: 30 Sep 2024