How to Use organic in a Sentence

organic

1 of 2 adjective
  • This neighborhood is an organic part of the city.
  • He thinks of the city not as a collection of different neighborhoods but as an organic whole.
  • So there’s a lot of pressure to make that video good and organic, and to perform well for them.
    Jodie Valade, Charlotte Observer, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The wooden slats and straight edges give a modern organic look to these chairs.
    Erica Reagle, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 July 2023
  • Right now, this organic cotton bag is on sale for a mere $33, so don't wait on adding it to your cart.
    Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Eat organic, unless the food came from more than a hundred miles away.
    Alison Myers, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Add organic matter such as compost and worm castings to the hole.
    Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Nov. 2023
  • For the new house, a Colonial in Brookside, Colleen wanted an open space that felt more organic.
    Judy Revenaugh, Kansas City Star, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The denim was organic, the polyester and viscose were recycled, the bags were vintage.
    Tara Gonzalez, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 June 2023
  • In the scientific terms there are two types of these tiny bits of organic matter.
    Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Charred bone starts to lose its organic matter but will sometimes yield DNA.
    Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Made of 100 percent organic, long-staple cotton, these sheets feel dense, silky, and pleasant to the touch.
    Sharon Brandwein, Southern Living, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The test results showed that my arsenic level was high at 20 mcg/L, and it was thought to be organic, caused by eating fish.
    Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 26 May 2023
  • Draw organic shapes such as leaves, berries, and flowers, filling the surface with designs.
    Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Much of her success can be attributed to Scott’s organic process.
    Essence, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Or just breathe, bathe, swim, and consume Adrère Amellal’s splendid organic meals—served at night by the light of hundreds of candles.
    Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 18 June 2023
  • People will see that organic part of RBD, but in a more elevated way.
    Leila Cobo, Billboard, 31 Aug. 2023
  • This color is likely due to the presence of organic compounds called tholins on its surface.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 9 May 2023
  • The organic cambric cotton shell has a tight weave, and our tester observed no down or feathers poking through.
    Maria V. Charbonneaux, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 June 2023
  • Of course, no trip to Tuscany is complete without an organic wine or olive oil tasting.
    Katie Jackson, Robb Report, 12 Apr. 2024
  • The pasture and grazing are managed to return nutrients and organic matter to the soil.
    Paul Winters, Discover Magazine, 16 Mar. 2024
  • Ryme packaged the wine, a 2019 organic vermentino, as a sort of back-to-school kit for adults who might be daunted by the prospect of remote schooling and working from home.
    Eric Asimov, New York Times, 4 May 2023
  • The tools were individually wrapped in the 1960s, preserving the organic substances in the very old glue.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Pricing and the mix of products sold lifted revenue by 11%, while organic sales volumes slid 2.5%.
    WSJ, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Mulchers use semi-blunt blades that spin on a drum to shred small, soft organic material like leaves and small twigs into fine pieces.
    James Fitzgerald, Popular Mechanics, 11 May 2023
  • But the trade-off is a sharpened sense of the organic relationship between art and its social context.
    Charlotte Observer, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Access to capital and markets still holds back small-scale organic growers in the area, said Cardona.
    The Arizona Republic, 9 Mar. 2024
  • There are a number of organic market vendors and at least one food truck that has featured organic foods.
    Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Apr. 2024
  • There’s a stuck dust cover on an important instrument that helps the rover search for organic compounds.
    Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Made to mimic the design of a woven basket, this faux pumpkin would look right at home in a modern organic or modern farmhouse home.
    Erica Reagle, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Oct. 2023
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organic

2 of 2 noun
  • In the past the advice was to fill with good compost or soil full of organics.
    Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The metal and non-organics found in a person’s body are screened out.
    Saja Hindi, The Denver Post, 16 Dec. 2019
  • These have information about the salt content of the ocean and some of the organics that are present there.
    Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2018
  • And, adding organics — kelp is great — and microbes to your soil will make the pool that can be utilized by the plant much greater.
    Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The poisons, traps, organics and predator pee don't stop them for long.
    Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2019
  • The bad news, McKay said, is that all missions to Mars have tried to find organics using this heat method.
    Ashley May, USA TODAY, 12 July 2018
  • And the Lana record and Folklore are very different kinds of organic than this Bleachers rec-ord.
    Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 16 June 2021
  • In terms of textiles, the term organic refers to how the material is grown and treated from start to finish.
    Jamie Weissman, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 June 2023
  • Outside sources of organics were a concern during the study.
    National Geographic, 10 Apr. 2017
  • The sediments around the wood are dark in color and full of organics (roots, small pieces of wood, seeds, and pollen) are all remarking well-preserved.
    Ben Raines | Braines@al.com, AL.com, 28 July 2017
  • Trumbo, in particular, would like to search for any organics that might have spilled onto the surface along with the salt.
    Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 12 June 2019
  • If the goal is to more responsibly handle their trash, their recycling, their organics down the road, the city is going to have to be involved in the process.
    Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 12 Oct. 2019
  • Reynoso is working to get mandatory organics recycling passed by the City Council before the end of the year.
    Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2020
  • The Stardust recovery mission found organics and glycine - one of the simplest amino acids.
    Jamie Seidel, Fox News, 28 June 2018
  • Society at large has overcome the duality of the analog and the digital, by means of the organic.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022
  • But the nomination is impressive enough on its own — a sign that Black Pumas’ organic, word-of-mouth rise has hit the wider industry radar.
    Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 19 Jan. 2020
  • But food is a sluggish, low-margin sector, and even once-hot categories like organics have slowed.
    Matthew Boyle, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2020
  • Cleary said new contracts signed by all the haulers give them some discretion about how to handle organics recycling.
    David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The body is then covered with the remaining organics needed for compost and is left to turn into soil, lasting roughly 30 days or less.
    Kira Mautone, Fox News, 18 Feb. 2023
  • While organics have a niche in the cities, in the countryside the agro-industrial model has recovered with the economy, Díaz said.
    Bill Weinberg, miamiherald, 22 June 2017
  • Creating all-new routes just to fetch organics would be expensive and snarl traffic.
    Emily S. Rueb, New York Times, 2 June 2017
  • The agency detected volatile organics in the air, but not at dangerous levels.
    Cameron Knight, Cincinnati.com, 12 Dec. 2018
  • Costco is bullish on organics, and the majority of its in-house brands, labeled Kirkland, are produced by some of the country’s most well-known food makers.
    Michael Easter, Outside Online, 31 May 2018
  • For years, farmers have turned to organics to get paid more for their products without as many price fluctuations.
    Rick Barrett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2018
  • Then the scientists sifted through the results to figure out what might be genuine Martian organics.
    Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 7 June 2018
  • The shop composts any extra food scraps such as egg shells through a voluntary organics collection program in Union City.
    Joseph Geha, The Mercury News, 26 Apr. 2017
  • Sulfur may have helped protect the organics even when the rocks were exposed at the surface to radiation and bleach-like substances called perchlorates.
    National Geographic, 7 June 2018
  • This red was a go-to up until organics were largely replaced by synthetic pigments in the 19th century.
    Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Plus, hydrogen and small organics may have also provided food for Earth’s earliest inhabitants.
    Quanta Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Beyond organics like fats, oil, grease and proteins, ZwitterCo is working on reverse osmosis membranes to remove salts, heavy metals, chemicals and nutrients (hence the Innovation Center).
    Jeff Kart, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'organic.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

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