How to Use amoeba in a Sentence

amoeba

noun

• How might the amoeba have been present at the splash pad?
  — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 28 Sep. 2021
• This is in the same range as some of the large viruses that attack amoeba.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 13 Feb. 2020
• This marks the third time the amoeba has been detected in the water since 2015.
  — CBS News, 13 June 2018
• And try not to worry too much about those scary amoebas.
  — Caroline Picard, Woman's Day, 16 Feb. 2017
• The news release explained how the amoeba affects the body.
  — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 20 Oct. 2022
• So, the risk of having your brain dissolved by a rogue amoeba is very low.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 3 Oct. 2023
• The amoeba isn’t found in salt water, according to the CDC.
  — Ashley R. Williams, USA TODAY, 16 July 2022
• The amoeba is found in warm freshwater such as lakes, rivers, ponds and canals.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 6 July 2020
• Last summer, the amoeba is believed to have caused two deaths in the Midwest.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 26 June 2023
• Child dies of rare, brain-eating amoeba found at Texas splash pad.
  — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2021
• The chances of contracting a brain-eating amoeba in the U.S. remain rare.
  — Fox News, 17 Sep. 2019
• That’s where the little amoeba passes through to the skull cavity and eats your brain.
  — Marc Peruzzi, Outside Online, 25 June 2018
• The child likely picked up the amoeba while swimming in the Elkhorn River, the department said.
  — Max Thornberry, Fox News, 18 Aug. 2022
• The water-loving amoeba is often found in warm lakes, rivers and host springs.
  — Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2020
• The agency did not release the age or gender of the person who died from exposure to the amoeba.
  — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 15 Sep. 2023
• The splash pad was shut down on September 8 and the city began testing its water for the amoeba.
  — Alison Medley, Houston Chronicle, 28 Sep. 2020
• One: amoeba fronts and complex five-man blitzes on passing downs.
  — Andy Benoit, SI.com, 11 Aug. 2017
• The episode's group date — awkward, amoeba-like dates — centered on a debate.
  — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 3 July 2018
• From above, the appendages look like the protuberances of an amoeba.
  — Victoria Sayo Turner, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Sep. 2023
• The amoeba often infects a person by entering the body through the nose.
  — Madison Dibble, Washington Examiner, 5 July 2020
• Long mistaken for fungi, they are now classed as a type of amoeba.
  — Katia Moskvitch, WIRED, 14 July 2018
• Despite the oceanic source, the virus grew nicely in fresh water amoebae.
  — Ars Technica, WIRED, 11 Oct. 2011
• The police managed to cut one half of the group off from the other, but the two nodes had lives of their own, and continued, amoeba-like, one south and the other west.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 4 June 2020
• The paths full of the amoeba-attracting acid are colored purple, and the amoebas appear as blue ovals.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Sep. 2020
• At some point an amoeba ate a bacterium but could not digest it.
  — Dick Teresi, Discover Magazine, 17 June 2011
• Take the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum, which has three: Each type can mate with members of the other two.
  — Quanta Magazine, 17 July 2018
• Deaths from the amoeba are rare, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
  — Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 12 June 2015
• Bakari likely became infected with the rare amoeba, which enters the body through the nose, at the city-run splash pad, the agency announced.
  — Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2021
• Here's what experts think Neti pots, nasal rinsing linked to another dangerous amoeba.
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 13 Mar. 2024
• Research also has indicated the amoeba is common in tap water.
  — CBS News, 13 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024