How to Use senescence in a Sentence

senescence

noun

• The takes on what this study might say about cell senescence are more mixed.
  — Max G. Levy, WIRED, 12 July 2023
• Alaska trees and shrubs will soon be done with their senescence for 2021.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Sep. 2021
• When trees lived in shade, their fall senescence was delayed by more than a week.
  — Ula Chrobak, Popular Science, 30 Nov. 2020
• Cells that refuse to die can instead enter a phase called senescence.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 23 Mar. 2017
• Researchers are also looking for ways to detect the levels of senescence in the body.
  — Monique Brouillette, Popular Mechanics, 21 Feb. 2023
• An octopus in senescence stays in her den guarding her eggs and may lose more than half her body weight.
  — National Geographic, 13 Oct. 2022
• To Republicans, this is proof of Biden’s senescence; to the press, his lack of transparency.
  — Jason Zengerle, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2022
• They are overtaken by Jones, who, stirred from senescence, thunders down the avenue on a horse, with Nazis on his—and its—tail.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 30 June 2023
• Species such as sea anemones and hydras show no signs of senescence, and many researchers believe that aging is not inevitable.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
• Seventeen years beneath the ground, a single mating frenzy in the treetops, then a rapid senescence and death.
  — Washington Post, 26 May 2021
• Over time, as animals age, more and more cells enter senescence, a process that's thought to contribute to aging.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 10 July 2018
• And unless they get arrested and put into jail, they may be doomed to homelessness in their senescence.
  — Jay Newton-Small, Time, 20 Nov. 2019
• Scientists are careful to note that cell senescence can be useful.
  — Laura Ungar, The Enquirer, 31 Aug. 2022
• Their length decreases with aging, and this contributes to cell senescence, meaning the cells can no longer divide.
  — Liz Seegert, Time, 1 June 2021
• There’s no dithering yet—the senescence is almost undetectable.
  — Caitlin Flanagan, The Atlantic, 14 Nov. 2021
• Cell biologist Bill Keyes was working on senescence in embryos back in the early 2000s.
  — Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Dec. 2022
• Tests in humans haven't yet begun, and further research into cell senescence and cell death needed.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 23 Mar. 2017
• Rarely before has the senescence of this Senate — which, with an average age of 63, is the oldest in history — been so apparent.
  — Nash Jenkins, Time, 10 Apr. 2018
• Aging, or senescence, is a progressive loss of function and performance with time.
  — Yao-Hua Law, Science | AAAS, 25 Mar. 2021
• The super-old trees’ growth had slowed to a crawl, to be sure, but the cells showed no signs of senescence, which is not quite death but causes cells to stop dividing and eventually results in a loss of function.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 July 2020
• Studies of turtles and lizards have also turned up negative senescence.
  — Hillary Rosner, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2014
• Yet Kalanick’s public persona does not mesh with the notion of a quiet senescence, maybe sprinkled with a few guest lectures before MBA classes.
  — Irv Schenkler, Fortune, 22 June 2017
• The post said Tako had been undergoing a process called senescence, which is a giant pacific octopus's final stage of life.
  — Vic Verbalaitis, The Arizona Republic, 19 Oct. 2022
• The ingredient is said to prevent skin cells from becoming sluggish, which results in dull, tired-looking skin (the fancy word for this phase is senescence).
  — ELLE, 6 Jan. 2022
• Capturing this trait—known as negligible senescence—is the holy grail of aging research.
  — Adrian Woolfson, WSJ, 26 Feb. 2021
• Turning off a key senescence gene also turned off the production of stem cells and tissue regeneration.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 27 July 2023
• Cellular senescence was discovered by Hayflick and Moorhead in 1961.
  — Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes, 1 Feb. 2022
• While this thinning wouldn’t exactly be programmed senescence,the cambium could eventually become too thin to function and kill the tree.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 July 2020
• The researchers compared cells extracted from between the tree wood and bark and found that there was no change in the expression of genes related to biological aging, called senescence.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 14 Jan. 2020
• Some of these byproducts can even accelerate senescence in neighboring cells.
  — Matthew Steinhauser, The Conversation, 24 Nov. 2020

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024