How to Use microscopic in a Sentence

microscopic

adjective

• There is a microscopic crack in the diamond.
• He recorded every aspect of his trip in microscopic detail.
• He has a microscopic attention span.
• At this point, the embryo is a microscopic clump of only 100 cells.
• The masks offered microscopic slits in the mouths and noses to (sort of) breathe.
  — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 3 Oct. 2024
• That’s still a microscopic drop on the bucket compared to the scale of the world’s CO2 problem.
  — Time, 28 June 2023
• Amp them up by adding microscopic dots in shades of red and blue.
  — goodhousekeeping.com, 13 May 2023
• All of the fungi on the WHO’s list are microscopic—still, many of them are deadly.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Oct. 2022
• All that’s needed at this point is to run it on a strop a few times to straighten that microscopic edge.
  — Jim Cobb, Field & Stream, 3 May 2023
• Most bacteria are microscopic, but this one is so big it can be seen with the naked eye.
  — Christina Larson, ajc, 23 June 2022
• Larvae are microscopic and have to attach to a hard surface like a shell to grow.
  — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2023
• The market odds of a March rate reduction are now a microscopic 10%, and May has fallen to a 30% chance.
  — Robert Barone, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2024
• Though the eggs are microscopic, the authors point out that the eggs produced in a single host in the course of a year weigh roughly the same as two sugar cubes.
  — Jerome Groopman, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2022
• Enlarge / Who doesn't thrill to the sight of a microscopic cross-section of a beetle's rectum?
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 27 Dec. 2023
• In that same two tablespoons, there can be as many species of microscopic life as there are species of birds on the planet.
  — Melina Walling, The Arizona Republic, 3 Oct. 2022
• Basil’s essential oils live in microscopic sacs on parts of the plant.
  — Betty Cahill, The Denver Post, 11 June 2024
• One, the trophozoite, looks like a microscopic teardrop.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Aug. 2021
• In theory, the test is meant to determine whether air has reached the microscopic air sacs inside the lungs.
  — Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 7 Oct. 2023
• Pink Sand Beach is an apt name for the three-mile stretch that gets its signature hue from the microscopic coral insects that wash ashore.
  — Regan Stephens, Travel + Leisure, 28 Mar. 2024
• Notice the microscopic structure of the granules of sand layered into the acrylic paint.
  — Helmuth Rosales, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2023
• Yes, these movies were the ones that introduced us to the microscopic realm that would play a part in the new villain’s ascension to power.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 Dec. 2023
• All are vulnerable to infection by the same set of microscopic pathogens that live in the soil.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 May 2023
• And even if your skin doesn’t look like the lunar surface, dry skin is still cracking at the microscopic level.
  — Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
• Assuming that there is, in fact, alien life out there, most of it seems likely to be microscopic.
  — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2021
• And there's little pores on plants that are microscopic.
  — Tonya Mosley, NPR, 6 May 2024
• In the West Valley, Litchfield Park offers a microscopic view of that.
  — Shawn Raymundo, The Arizona Republic, 14 Aug. 2024
• This time not by jets but a microscopic strand of genetic code.
  — Peter Kaminsky, Bon Appétit, 18 Aug. 2021
• The prospects for an upturn in Year 2 are modest, which is better than microscopic.
  — Jon Wilner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2023
• These microscopic particles have the potential to precisely deliver drugs to hard-to-reach places in the body with fewer side effects.
  — Alex Knapp, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
• Apple dressed up our sample with a nano-texture glass layer whose microscopic etchings scatter ambient light.
  — Brian Westover, PCMAG, 7 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024