How to Use urea in a Sentence

urea

noun

• This oral route gets rid of urea between 15 and 50 times faster than the kidneys.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 11 Oct. 2012
• It’s enriched with urea, an AHA that hydrates dry skin and smooths out bumps and scales.
  — Lacey Muinos, Health, 18 July 2023
• But making urea takes a lot of energy, which leads to hunger — in mice, at least.
  — Josh Hafner, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2017
• In India, a lack of urea has made farmers fear for their livelihoods.
  — New York Times, 6 Dec. 2021
• Citrulline is involved in our urea cycle, or the way our body gets rid of waste via our pee.
  — Alyssa Jung, Good Housekeeping, 31 July 2023
• More than half of China’s urea exports this year have gone to India.
  — New York Times, 6 Dec. 2021
• Instead, the urea’s nitrogen is retained in the body and used to make amino acids, the building blocks of proteins.
  — Matthew Regan, The Conversation, 27 Jan. 2022
• The meat of the Greenland shark has toxically high levels of urea.
  — The Economist, 9 Jan. 2020
• Blood urea nitrogen, or BUN, the amount of the waste product urea your kidneys help remove from your blood.
  — Brad Reisfeld, Discover Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024
• The price of food is going to go way up because Big Ag is so dependent on these urea and potash supplies.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Mar. 2022
• If ointment leaves your child feeling greasy, use a cream with glycyrrhetinic acid, urea, glycerol or oats in it.
  — Hallie Levine, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
• If ice has already built up, use calcium chloride or urea to melt the dam, not rock salt, experts say.
  — Detroit Free Press, 23 Feb. 2021
• Mammals excrete their nitrogenous waste as urea in pee, but birds excrete it as uric acid in a sticky white paste.
  — David Treuer, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
• The sample cylinders made with urea and naphthalene could hold the heavy weights and retain a mostly stable shape.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 31 Mar. 2020
• Glycolic acid, lactic acid, and urea are alpha hydroxy acids (AHAs) that loosen and shed old skin cells.
  — Lacey Muinos, Health, 18 July 2023
• Urea cycle disorder prevents the removal of protein waste from the body.
  — Max Londberg, kansascity, 16 Aug. 2017
• The truck plant over the weekend acknowledged a spill of urea, a substance that turned into deadly ammonia in the water.
  — James Bruggers, The Courier-Journal, 24 July 2017
• That’s because the urea present in urine degrades into ammonia.
  — Nala Rogers, Discover Magazine, 1 July 2019
• The filter would keep salt levels low and pull out compounds found in urine like urea, uric acid, ammonia, and calcium.
  — Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 15 July 2024
• To do this, the liver removes the nitrogen from the amino acids and disposes of it through the urine, in the form of a waste product called urea, Linsenmeyer explains.
  — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 20 June 2019
• In addition to the iron, zinc, and a mineral called lüneburgite, there are things like urea and a source of sulfur-hydrogen bonds.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 4 Oct. 2019
• The tank requires an occasional refill of the urea, though that’s as easy as topping off windshield wiper fluid.
  — Tom Voelk, New York Times, 15 June 2017
• The mix of retinol, urea, lactic and glycolic acid is great for exfoliating, smoothing, and evening out my body's skin tone.
  — Kiana Murden, Vogue, 14 Feb. 2024
• Via urine, our kidneys remove extra water, salt and urea, formed when our bodies break down protein.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Apr. 2021
• By swallowing their urea-carrying saliva, cows send it to their stomach and keep their microbes alive.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 11 Oct. 2012
• In addition, Petrobras said, the ships arrived from Iran transporting urea, which is subject to sanctions by the United States.
  — Washington Post, 19 July 2019
• Look for humectants that draw moisture to the top layer of your skin, like glycerin, hyaluronic acid, urea, lanolin, dimethicone, and petrolatum, says Dr. Levin.
  — Katie Becker, Cosmopolitan, 26 May 2017
• After 1 month of observations, the team discovered that the higher the concentration of urea, the more sugar ants.
  — Jake Buehler, Science | AAAS, 26 Dec. 2019
• The dhow also had more than 100 tons of urea fertilizer, which can be used as an explosive precursor.
  — Courtney Kube, NBC News, 15 Nov. 2022
• Then, apply an exfoliant (think: keratolytic agents, like urea, lactic acid or salicylic acid, per Camp), which will melt away any dead skin in the surface and allow the new skin to breathe.
  — Kiana Murden, Vogue, 15 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024