How to Use methyl in a Sentence

methyl

noun

• White wanted to find a way to add a methyl group at the end of the drug building process.
  — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 16 Mar. 2020
• The carbon compound is known as methyl cation, or CH3+.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 29 June 2023
• One of the best studied is a molecular cap called a methyl group.
  — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2018
• The oil inside the gland is identical to that found on the skin and is a mixture of methyl esters.
  — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 10 Aug. 2016
• The tank car may have held a flammable liquid in it called methyl isobutyl ketone, used as a solvent.
  — Doha Madani, NBC News, 10 Sep. 2019
• The outside of the spools are coated in molecules called methyl markers.
  — Nick Stockton, Wired News, 12 May 2015
• The second tested the effects of spraying methyl anthranilate around the bait box.
  — Stephen Ornes, The Atlantic, 15 May 2021
• It was replaced with MTBE (methyl tertiary butyl ether), an oxygenate.
  — Bob Weber, chicagotribune.com, 21 Oct. 2021
• So methylation turns genes off, while demethylation (the removal of that same methyl group) turns them on.
  — Bárbara Pinho, Discover Magazine, 17 Feb. 2021
• Genes are turned on and off depending on where methyl groups attach to DNA and histones.
  — National Geographic, 28 Dec. 2022
• Some have additives in the form of cobalt chloride or methyl violet.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Dec. 2020
• With its added methyl-group molecule, Pervitin races across the blood-brain barrier a bit faster than Benzedrine.
  — Fox News, 25 June 2019
• Throughout the piece, Kennedy confused and conflated ethyl and methyl mercury.
  — Michael Specter, The New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2017
• Most could pick up the smell of methyl mercaptan, a sulfur compound released as our guts digest the vegetable.
  — Thomas Goetz, WIRED, 17 Nov. 2007
• Citric acid, methyl cellulose and polysorbate 60 also show up in some milks.
  — Jolene Thym, The Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2017
• Methanol is known as methyl or wood alcohol and is extremely toxic.
  — Harold McGee, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2020
• When smooshed, the ants release a chemical from the same family of methyl ketones that gives blue cheese its distinctive funk.
  — Ashley Braun, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2018
• These cave fish have elevated levels of an enzyme that adds methyl groups to DNA compared to surface fish.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 1 June 2018
• The formula contains kaolin and bentonite clays to help soak up oils without stripping the skin, along with a sodium methyl cocoyl taurate.
  — Sarah Y. Wu, Marie Claire, 7 Apr. 2021
• This process of adding methyl groups to DNA is called methylation, and is said to be linked to biological development and growth.
  — Claudia Harmata, PEOPLE.com, 19 Nov. 2019
• Methylation is the process by which cells attach chemicals called methyl groups to DNA molecules.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 27 Oct. 2017
• One common chemical plant defense is the release of the foul-tasting substance methyl jasmonate.
  — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 11 July 2017
• One common chemical plant defense is the release of the foul-tasting substance methyl jasmonate.
  — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 11 July 2017
• King also highlighted methyl nicotinate and tripeptide in the formula, both of which add to the product's plumping effect.
  — Sarah Hoffmann, Allure, 16 Feb. 2023
• These patches also have camphor, menthol, and methyl salicylate in them (think: Icy Hot), which likely adds to the relief.
  — The Editors, Marie Claire, 17 Apr. 2019
• Kohoutek also marked the first direct detection of methyl cyanide, hydrogen cyanide and silicates in a comet.
  — Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Dec. 2023
• This product also has methyl salicylate in it, which would contribute to the effect.
  — The Editors, Marie Claire, 17 Apr. 2019
• An important way that cells turn genes on and off at the right time and place is by attaching chemical tags called methyl groups to sites that control gene activity.
  — Bob Holmes, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 May 2021
• In this recent work, her lab generated an enzyme that can biodegrade volatile methyl siloxanes.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 5 Feb. 2024
• In addition, the factory had stopped using a pesticide called methyl bromide, the researchers said.
  — Fox News, 12 May 2017

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024