How to Use organism in a Sentence

organism

noun

• A human being is a complex organism.
• This galaxy of organisms makes up the base of the oceanic food web.
  — WIRED, 2 Aug. 2023
• Glowing organisms, like the ones observed in the video, are most commonly found in the ocean.
  — Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2023
• The catch was that introners were only known to exist in a few organisms.
  — Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
• Yet, on the species level, an organism might not need to survive to be reborn.
  — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 27 Dec. 2023
• Image in the Age of A.I. Like a living organism, the project has morphed and evolved alongside its founders.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 30 Nov. 2023
• Among the most vulnerable organisms to this change are the world’s corals.
  — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Apr. 2024
• Either way, the strength of the germline signal regulates the organism’s life span, Dillin said.
  — Quanta Magazine, 8 Jan. 2024
• The egg and each polar body each contain half of the complement of genes needed to make a new organism.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 18 Feb. 2024
• The harmful effects of a red tide are caused by toxins released by the organism.
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2023
• Like corals do in reef ecosystems, the organisms of the open ocean have certain tolerances for heat.
  — WIRED, 2 Aug. 2023
• The event exposes the organic carbon from the remains of long dead organisms in the rocks to oxygen in the air and water.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 5 Oct. 2023
• When these organisms are moved by waves or the paddle of a kayak or canoe, the light becomes visible.
  — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 3 Sep. 2023
• But many of the paths — routes by which, one mutation at a time, organisms could change their genotypes — reached fairly high points.
  — Quanta Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
• In 2017, a team of scientists from Germany trekked to Chile to investigate how living organisms sculpt the face of the Earth.
  — Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 12 July 2023
• Even if millions of cells are destroyed this way, these actions protect the whole organism.
  — Jessica Dulong, CNN, 9 Apr. 2024
• Insects are the most skilled flyers There are organisms other than insects that can fly.
  — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Ars Technica, 16 Oct. 2023
• Like the band’s namesake, The Enduring Spirit is a peculiar organism blooming on the bones of old-school death.
  — Pitchfork, 6 Dec. 2023
• The concern is that the leak may have exposed the water system to harmful bacteria and organisms.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 2 Aug. 2023
• Some of the organisms that have been documented are among the oldest on the planet, including corals that are more than 4,000 years old.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 15 July 2023
• Two years ago, a 3-year-old boy contracted a disease from the organism and died shortly after.
  — Zaeem Shaikh, Dallas News, 1 Sep. 2023
• Each of us coexists with a complex gut ecosystem that contains more organisms than there are cells in our body.
  — Scientific American, 23 Apr. 2023
• There were too many organisms mixed together, ebbing and flowing over time as available food sources shifted and species lived and died.
  — Dan Samorodnitsky, Quanta Magazine, 17 Jan. 2024
• The organism must be quickly buried to keep other organisms from feeding on it.
  — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 21 Dec. 2023
• The drug delivery tech is currently at the proof-of-concept stage and has not been tested in living organisms.
  — New Atlas, 30 July 2024
• But this is the first time superpropulsion has been observed in a living organism.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 28 Feb. 2023
• That’s out of self-interest: Any hint of the organism’s presence can shut down a state’s shellfish economy.
  — Maryn McKenna, WIRED, 6 Sep. 2023
• The authors plan to test other sea creatures and probe what self-awareness might mean in organisms without language.
  — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 1 June 2023
• Shrimps, snails, anemones and other organisms feed off the octopus’ carcass.
  — Faith E. Pinho, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
• Pheromones are chemicals that humans and animals secrete that serve as signals to nearby organisms.
  — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Sep 2024