How to Use slime mold in a Sentence

slime mold

noun

• All the dancers now swarmed like a slime mold’s amoebas over the cars and their contents.
  — Nisi Shawl, Slate Magazine, 22 Feb. 2017
• The find sparked Webb to document more of the ephemeral slime mold growths.
  — Leslie Nemo, Scientific American, 6 Jan. 2022
• In the lawn, Bell said, slime mold looks almost like grayish black beads.
  — oregonlive, 4 Aug. 2020
• That’s much more than a slime mold, say, or a bacterium.
  — Quanta Magazine, 13 July 2017
• In the image, a slime mold (shown in white) is engulfing a yeast cell (shown in red).
  — Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
• The yellow slime mold Physarum polycephalum grows as a single cell that is big enough to be seen with the naked eye.
  — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 22 Jan. 2010
• Likewise, slime mold tubes that find food grow and dead ends wither away.
  — Rachael Lallensack, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Dec. 2021
• The gross-looking substance known as slime mold shows up on mulch and lawns, but is harmless to plants.
  — oregonlive, 4 Aug. 2020
• The spores are then dispersed to create new dog slime mold patches.
  — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 25 July 2021
• Some say slime mold could be the key to more efficient self-driving cars.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Oct. 2019
• Almost overnight, a slime mold, fungus-like organism oozes up the stems and leaf blades of turf.
  — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 17 July 2021
• The dog vomit slime mold will not harm your plants, pets or family, so there is no need to try to control it.
  — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 25 July 2021
• Different strains of the slime mold had different set points.
  — Quanta Magazine, 21 May 2020
• What’s more, that pattern persisted long after the slime mold chowed down.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Feb. 2021
• These skills let slime molds do impressively well at some human tasks.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 21 May 2018
• The Blob isn't an animal, plant, or fungus, but actually a slime mold.
  — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 18 Oct. 2019
• At Emergence Magazine, Lucy Jones turns her keen eye to the many mysteries of slime mold and finds beauty, wonder, and higher truths in the moist crevices of her own back yard.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 14 Feb. 2023
• Hundreds of thousands of French kids will follow the slime mold’s growth and compare it to organisms Dussutour has sent to their classrooms.
  — Max G. Levy, Wired, 9 Aug. 2021
• Their presence seemed to be a consistent aspect of slime mold behavior.
  — Quanta Magazine, 21 May 2020
• The study’s main finding emerged from simply watching a bright yellow slime mold named Physarum polycephalum do its thing under a microscope.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Feb. 2021
• After all, the U.K.-based photographer is looking for something others might struggle to see: slime mold growths that only stand around a tenth of an inch high.
  — Leslie Nemo, Scientific American, 6 Jan. 2022
• Photos of bay laurels from the Stanford hills, of turkey tail fungi fanning over mossy logs, of gleaming slime molds and iridescent ferns.
  — Daniel Mason, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2020
• The researchers found that the slime mold altered its growth pattern and migrated to contact the foods that provided it with the best proportion of nutrients.
  — Eliza Strickland, Discover Magazine, 12 Feb. 2010
• When placed in a new environment, a slime mold sends out a fractal net of oozing tendrils to explore its surroundings.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Feb. 2021
• Despite lacking a brain or nervous system, slime mold can navigate a maze or recall the location of food.
  — Rachael Lallensack, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Dec. 2021
• The scientists still need to definitively prove that the slime mold gains a fitness benefit from this bet-hedging strategy.
  — Quanta Magazine, 21 May 2020
• The slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum can exist as individual cells that eat bacteria in the soil.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 4 July 2019
• True fungi have a cell wall and digest their food with exoenzymes before ingesting it, but dog vomit slime mold ingests its food, then digests it.
  — oregonlive, 23 May 2021
• Some scientists suggest that slime mold behavior may even shed light on the origins of intelligence.
  — Eoin O'Carroll, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Apr. 2018
• Earlier this year, researchers discovered a 100-million-year-old slime mold and a lizard leg perfectly preserved in amber from a tree in Myanmar.
  — Fox News, 11 Aug. 2020

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024