How to Use microgram in a Sentence

microgram

noun

• This week in New York City, the rate was close to 100 micrograms.
  — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 7 June 2023
• Last March, a blood test revealed that Caiden had a blood lead level of 13 micrograms per deciliter.
  — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 28 Feb. 2024
• His blood came back positive for lead at a rate of 35 micrograms per deciliter.
  — Deborah Bloom, CNN, 20 Apr. 2018
• The boosters are being tested at a 50 microgram dose, or half what is used in the current shot.
  — al, 6 Aug. 2021
• These levels would be 3 micrograms per square foot on the floor and 20 micrograms per square foot for sills.
  — Time, 12 July 2023
• In Moderna’s study, kids were given two shots of a 50 microgram dose, which is half of the dose authorized for adults.
  — Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
• The children had BLLs ranging from 4 to 29 micrograms per deciliter (µg/dL)—as much as eight times greater than levels that raise concern.
  — Julia Landwehr, Health, 15 Nov. 2023
• Each dose is just 10 micrograms, a third of the 30 microgram dose given to adolescents and adults.
  — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 3 Nov. 2021
• Adults receive two 30 microgram doses of the vaccine three weeks apart.
  — Matthew Herper, STAT, 20 Sep. 2021
• Because the full-length spike’s gene sequence was about five times as long as the fragment’s, each microgram of vaccine contained one-fifth the number of copies.
  — Brendan Borrell, The Atlantic, 1 Oct. 2021
• In children under 5, Pfizer and BioNTech have been testing two shots of a three-microgram dose, a small fraction of the adult dose.
  — Laura Meckler, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Dec. 2021
• The cases in which Husel was charged with murder involved the ordering of at least 500 micrograms of fentanyl.
  — NBC News, 19 Dec. 2019
• Lead experts in the United States say workers whose lead level reaches 30 micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood should be removed from the source of the metal.
  — Steve Fisher Alejandro Cegarra, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2023
• The Camarones had the highest levels of all at 1,000 micrograms per liter (a hundred times the safe consumption level).
  — Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 13 Nov. 2023
• From their current stock of vaccine, providers will be able to simply draw up half of the 100 microgram doses that made up Moderna's first two shots.
  — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2021
• Trace amounts of ketamine were found in Perry's stomach, but the coroner said high levels of the drug were found in his blood: 3.54 micrograms per milliliter.
  — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 15 Dec. 2023
• The affected children's blood lead levels ranged from 4 to 29 micrograms per deciliter.
  — CBS News, 13 Nov. 2023
• The children affected by this recall had 4 to 29 micrograms per deciliter.
  — Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2024
• The second booster of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine would use the same, 30 microgram dose as the first three administered.
  — Stephanie Armour, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2022
• At first, clinicians tried the 10 microgram dose for the younger children but some experienced mild fever.
  — Terry Demio, The Enquirer, 11 Feb. 2022
• The murder charges were brought only in cases that involved fentanyl doses of at least 500 micrograms.
  — Kantele Franko, Anchorage Daily News, 6 June 2019
• But in the antibody realm, two doses of Pfizer’s three-microgram dose, which is still in trials, fell short in the 2-to-4-year-old group, prompting the company to add a third shot for all kids younger than 5.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 29 Mar. 2022
• The average for the surrounding area was higher, 3.3 micrograms per deciliter.
  — Martin Schiavenato, The Conversation, 30 Aug. 2023
• Test results from East Lauderdale ranged from none detected to 120 micrograms per liter.
  — Dennis Pillion | [e-mail], al, 12 Sep. 2019
• The agency uses a level of 3.5 micrograms per deciliter to identify kids with higher blood lead levels than most.
  — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 18 Dec. 2023
• Lawyers say up to 100 micrograms of the synthetic opioid would be normal for a patient, depending on their size and the circumstances.
  — NBC News, 5 June 2019
• Younger children are being tested on a 3- microgram dose.
  — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2021
• It's recommended for adults to get about 2.4 micrograms of B12 daily.
  — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 30 Aug. 2023
• Their 3-year-old daughter, a fierce, bright girl who loves twirly dresses and nail polish, had a blood-lead level of 24 micrograms per deciliter, nearly seven times the C.D.C.’s level of concern.
  — Will Fitzgibbon, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2024
• Her blood lead levels tested at 4 micrograms per deciliter of lead, just below the 5 microgram level.
  — Freep.com, 7 June 2019

Last Updated: 28 May 2024