How to Use secretion in a Sentence

secretion

noun

• The virus can also be spread from secretions in the mouth and nose, Frenck said.
  — The Enquirer, 4 June 2023
• The mucin and secretion filtrate does come from the snails, but there’s also more to it.
  — Alyssa Grabinski, Peoplemag, 10 Feb. 2024
• Turns out, the experts are not fans of snail secretion.
  — Devon Abelman, Allure, 6 Feb. 2018
• In the past, the distillery produced a whiskey with the secretion from beavers’ castor sacs.
  — Michael Casey, BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2022
• In the past, the distillery produced a whiskey with the secretion from beavers' castor sacs.
  — Michael Casey, USA TODAY, 28 June 2022
• Birds can shed the virus through their oral, nasal, urine and fecal secretions.
  — Todd Cornish, The Conversation, 25 Apr. 2024
• The by-product is an acid secretion that leads to tooth decay.
  — NBC News, 18 July 2019
• Sure enough, the group that had been living in the wild with the fungus produced skin secretions that better fought off the pathogen.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 29 Mar. 2018
• Karen grimaces as Steve inserts a long thin tube all the way into the lungs to pull up secretions.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Jan. 2020
• In the center of the flower is the entrance to a tube called a nectar spur, which contains sweet secretions.
  — Douglas Main, National Geographic, 11 July 2019
• Once the tube is inserted, a cuff is inflated to keep the tube in place and seal out secretions.
  — USA Today, 10 Apr. 2020
• The ants are feeding on a sweet secretion the plant releases.
  — oregonlive.com, 2 July 2019
• The plant is the only host for their eggs and sole sustenance for the caterpillars, which feed on milky secretions from the leaves.
  — Calvin Woodward, Fox News, 31 July 2018
• But where Covington’s group predated the Trump era, the Base was a secretion of it.
  — James Verini, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2023
• However, when grabbed, the snakes will discharge a secretion from their anal gland, and some might strike.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
• What’s the harm in believing that there are beaver butt gland secretions in my vanilla ice cream?
  — Rachel Becker, The Verge, 21 Oct. 2018
• Jillian no longer had the ability to cough or clear secretions from her lungs on her own.
  — Daniela Porat, ProPublica, 6 Feb. 2020
• The material comes from secretions of the fish, such as feces and urine.
  — Lee Bergquist, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 June 2019
• For the past couple years, people from here (as in, in the U.S.) to South Korea have been all about smearing snail secretions on their faces.
  — Devon Abelman, Allure, 6 Feb. 2018
• Royal jelly is a secretion made by nurse bees that is meant to feed queen bees and larvae.
  — Shaena Montanari, The Arizona Republic, 22 Sep. 2020
• Turn the person to their side to allow saliva and other secretions to drain and to keep their airway open.
  — Smita Patel, Verywell Health, 19 July 2024
• The flies ingest the worm larvae, then land on an animal's eyes, where the flies feed on tears and other secretions.
  — Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2018
• Long sat in the chair, listening to Parker as Seven applied the frog secretions to her arm.
  — John Carlisle, Freep.com, 18 Aug. 2022
• The researchers saw one of the frogs wiggle into a flower in search of nectar, then emerge with pollen clinging to the secretions on its moist back.
  — Asher Elbein, Scientific American, 6 May 2023
• In the wild, the chemical is found in foods the insects sometimes eat, such as ant cadavers and secretion from aphids.
  — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 10 May 2019
• And found that the reunion with the owner stimulate tear secretion.
  — Karen Hopkin, Scientific American, 24 Aug. 2022
• The researchers added skin secretions from captive frogs to petri dishes of growing Bd.
  — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2018
• The tubes lure insects with sweet secretions, but once the creatures lose their footing and fall into the tube, enzymes consume them.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 3 July 2017
• These secretions originate from skin glands such as the parotoid glands, found around the back or neck region of the animal.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
• The team from Virginia Tech set out to target metabolic hormone secretion in the gut, which would have a knock-on effect of regulating metabolic function.
  — New Atlas, 11 July 2024

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024