How to Use water bear in a Sentence

water bear

noun

• At least 1,300 species of water bear swim in Earth’s waters and crawl in its moist soils.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 16 Jan. 2020
• The water bears shrink to one-quarter of their normal size.
  — Jenna Schnuer, CNN, 5 Feb. 2024
• Even if the water bear's speed changed, their gait stayed the same, per Gizmodo.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Sep. 2021
• And even if the water bear army fails, the hardy critters would still outlive the Enterprise’s crew.
  — Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2013
• The stone walkways along the water bore the weight of history, of other times and other lives.
  — Nicole Brodeur, The Seattle Times, 7 Dec. 2018
• One of these hardier options is the tardigrade, or water bear (see image above).
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 9 Nov. 2021
• In this state, water bears have survived in outer space and then revived.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Jan. 2020
• The future is in sight and water bears face a plight, but first: a cartoon about the Duolingo inheritance.
  — Alex Baker-Whitcomb, Wired, 16 Jan. 2020
• In the last few years, tardigrades, also known as water bears or moss piglets, have gotten a lot of attention for being tough.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 20 Mar. 2017
• When the water bears returned to Earth, the scientists discovered that 68 percent lived through the ordeal.
  — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 7 Aug. 2019
• But the new species, with its unique traits, has given science a whole new line of investigation into the bizarre water bear.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2018
• As for whether any of the DNA or tardigrades are still intact, that’s anyone’s guess, but Spivack says there’s no reason to worry about water bears taking over the moon.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, WIRED, 5 Aug. 2019
• One of the new CG ghosts, Muncher, took cues from a tardigrade (microscopic water bear) and glass frogs for translucency.
  — Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Jan. 2022
• The tiny water bear was roaming the lakeshore mosses within Crater Cirque, a natural bowl hollowed out by ancient glaciers.
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 19 June 2014
• When they were returned to earth and rehydrated, some of the microscopic water bears woke up.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 8 Aug. 2019
• But in principle, a colony of water bears is within the realm of possibility.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 7 Aug. 2019
• After a lunar lander crashed into the moon on April 11, thousands of dehydrated water bears were left on the moon's surface.
  — Alex Baker-Whitcomb, WIRED, 5 Aug. 2019
• The toughest Earth creature could be the water bear, or tardigrades, which are .04 inch long invertebrate animals that live in mosses, soil, or lichens on earth.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2018
• Tardigrades, also known as water bears, are probably the toughest creatures on Earth.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 8 Aug. 2019
• The resilient tun state isn’t the only tactic water bears use to survive environmental stress, and the team plans to study these other strategies in close detail.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 17 Jan. 2024
• Also known as water bears, tardigrades are tiny water-dwelling creatures famed for their resiliency.
  — National Geographic, 14 July 2017
• With a resolution of 3 micron and a field of view of around one millimeter, this lens, which is packaged in red, allows the user to see cells and microorganisms like protozoans and water bears.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 22 Nov. 2019
• Despite their tiny stature and their adorable nicknames—moss piglets, water bears—the tenacious tardigrade has some tremendous capabilities.
  — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 27 July 2017
• To top it off, these lovable micro-animals are known colloquially as water bears or moss piglets.
  — Kate Golembiewski, Discover Magazine, 8 June 2023
• The microbial creatures, also known as water bears, can survive just about anywhere, including the vacuum of space.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2018
• To create the little organisms, which scoot around a petri dish a bit like water bears—those tiny microorganisms that are pretty much impossible to kill—the researchers scraped living stem cells from frog embryos.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 14 Jan. 2020
• Spencer Debenport, a plant pathologist at Ohio State University, sports a tattoo of a tardigrade, a microscopic animal known as the water bear.
  — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 7 Nov. 2011
• Each sphere is teeming with invertebrate life, hosting creatures such as tardigrades, commonly known as water bears.
  — Candice Wang, Popular Science, 28 May 2020
• However, some meteorites that hit Earth or Mars may experience lower shock pressures that a water bear could survive, Traspas explained to Science.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 May 2021
• With an evolutionary timeline that stretches back to the age of the dinosaurs, this miniature micro-animal — also known the water bear — is renowned for its ability to survive extreme conditions.
  — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 21 Oct 2024