How to Use microorganism in a Sentence

microorganism

noun

• Today, that is microorganisms in the ocean and plants on land.
  — Fox News, 3 Sep. 2019
• The limbs may have had tight angles to the trunk which can be weak points letting in the microorganisms.
  — oregonlive.com, 8 June 2019
• The sounds of worms and microorganisms at work emerged as the honking peals of a saxophone.
  — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• The microorganisms have learned to wait out the heat of the day in a dehydrated, dormant state.
  — Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 12 July 2023
• Such microorganism are thought to be among the earliest forms of life on Earth.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
• Algae grows on the ice, which helps feed microorganisms.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 July 2023
• The real answer, the data shows, might relate to the microbiome (the microorganisms in the gut).
  — Nicole Blackwood, chicagotribune.com, 12 June 2019
• Plus, many types of microorganisms don’t affect us at all.
  — Good Housekeeping, 19 Aug. 2023
• Growth is stopped when food is frozen, but microorganisms are not destroyed.
  — Washington Post, 13 May 2020
• This may be because the cheese helps create a better makeup of microorganisms in the mouth.
  — Merve Ceylan, Health, 24 July 2024
• Once in the lake, chemicals from the plant could be taken up by microorganisms and wildlife living there.
  — Emma Penrod, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Aug. 2023
• The microorganism can be found in all sorts of food products, including snacks.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 29 Apr. 2022
• The limits to alien life may differ from those imposed on our own world’s microorganisms.
  — Robin George Andrews, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2019
• Over time, microorganisms ate the flesh from those bones, and the museum gained four full walrus skeletons.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 5 Apr. 2020
• Each tree house is positioned high enough off the ground to allow the soil and microorganisms below to flourish.
  — Michelle Gross, Robb Report, 11 May 2023
• Compost piles heat up when microorganisms feed on waste.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 26 May 2023
• Fungi, insects, and microorganisms quickly break down the wood and roots.
  — Zayna Syed, Popular Science, 17 Apr. 2023
• Peat moss doesn’t foster the microorganisms that plants rely on in nature.
  — Brianna Wilson, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2023
• That's a microorganism that is only found in this cave, in the huge mounds of bat droppings left behind when the cave was opened and the bats migrated elsewhere.
  — Arkansas Online, 21 Aug. 2021
• Some fish and microorganisms lay their eggs in the fall, then rely on ice for protection during the winter.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
• In the course of weeks or months, billions of microorganisms feed on the carbon and nitrogen in the composting mixture.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2020
• This paper isn’t the first to look at exercising mice and their microorganisms.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
• The ice in Greenland is also getting darker, as soot carried through the air and microorganisms like algae coat the ice.
  — Umair Irfan, Vox, 8 Dec. 2018
• But now microorganisms are being used to boost that process and unlock new revenue streams for farmers.
  — Jamie Hailstone, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
• The microorganisms found in the gut microbiome are in charge of digesting different groups of fiber.
  — Valerie Agyeman, Good Housekeeping, 21 Mar. 2023
• The first is to decrease the overall biomass of microbes – that is, decrease the amount of bacteria, viruses and other types of microorganisms.
  — Michelle Sconce Massaquoi, The Conversation, 3 Mar. 2020
• Moreover, the Beresheet mission was hardly the first time anyone delivered microorganisms to the Moon.
  — Robert Zubrin, National Review, 31 Aug. 2019
• That's because freezing prevents the growth of the microorganisms that cause foodborne illness.
  — Sheena Chihak, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Apr. 2023
• Shipwrecks can attract microorganisms and small creatures like sponges and corals.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 8 July 2024
• Now, the society’s growers try to keep the starter away from other starters so microorganisms don’t get mixed in by accident, the website said.
  — Paloma Chavez, Sacramento Bee, 6 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2024