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
• No organism on Earth is known to live as long as the Great Basin bristlecone pine.
  — Sarah Kaplan, Anchorage Daily News, 14 July 2022
• The Imperia speakers made a sound that was wide and vivid and full of dirty weight, the breath of an organism.
  — Sasha Frere-Jones, Harper’s Magazine , 9 Nov. 2022
• The presence of the organism — thought to be a sea snail — kept the 14-deck Viking Orion adrift 16 miles off the coast of Adelaide, Australia.
  — Natasha Frost, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2023
• In other words, the Rangers are poised to flood the zone with arms, which really is the best approach to an organism like the bullpen.
  — Dallas News, 8 Feb. 2023
• Glowing organisms, like the ones observed in the video, are most commonly found in the ocean.
  — Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2023
• After sinking to the canal bed, the organisms begin to digest sludge—up to 10 square feet or more of the stuff per ball.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Nov. 2024
• The catch was that introners were only known to exist in a few organisms.
  — Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
• These are cells that can grow and live outside of a living organism so they can be kept in a petri dish or a flask.
  — Eva Amsen, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
• 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
• To further test the hypothesis that the organism was eating the virus, the researchers added dye to the chlorovirus DNA.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 30 Dec. 2022
• Watch this video to see a few organisms invisible to the naked eye.
  — Alexandra Banner, CNN, 20 Sep. 2024
• So mycelium is the organism that mushrooms grow from and the substrate is their food and habitat.
  — Bon Appétit, 9 Oct. 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 massive organism covers an area of 77 square miles.
  — Danielle Hall, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2022
• 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
• The organism shown in these pictures was big in comparison — maybe about the width of that human hair.
  — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 2 Nov. 2022
• 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
• The organism that causes red tide is back in waters off the coast of Southwest Florida.
  — Ryan Ballogg, Orlando Sentinel, 26 Oct. 2022
• 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
• Key Takeaways Algae cooking oil is made with microscopic, plant-like organisms grown in tanks to rapidly increase their weight, then pressed just like olives are for olive oil.
  — Lisa Rapaport, EverydayHealth.com, 25 Nov. 2024
• Ground squirrels are not well-studied, model organisms.
  — Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 28 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Dec 2024