How to Use anaerobic in a Sentence

anaerobic

adjective

• Some bacteria are aerobic and others are anaerobic.
• Weight lifting is an anaerobic exercise.
• What’s left can be composted at home, or sent to a commercial composter or anaerobic digester, where it can be processed into useful soil additives and other products.
  — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 19 Apr. 2024
• Use of anaerobic digesters to biodegrade food waste in homes.
  — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2022
• The greater the remaining anaerobic capacity, the faster the last lap.
  — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 4 Nov. 2021
• This distance requires a good dose of both aerobic work (from your slow-twitch fibers) and anaerobic work (from your fast-twitch fibers).
  — Ali Nolan, SELF, 16 June 2022
• Without mixing the anaerobic digester, trapped gases cause the sludge to expand and rise.
  — The Seattle Times, 29 Apr. 2017
• This is a condensed version that will still push you to find your anaerobic threshold, leaving you fitter, stronger, and ready to conquer the rest of your day.
  — Madeline Howard, Women's Health, 29 May 2023
• That jibes with the horde of anaerobic bacteria (those that live without oxygen) that inhabit the colon.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 9 Jan. 2018
• The waste is mixed with water to form a slurry, and transported in a 2,500-gallon tank to the company's anaerobic digesters in Collinwood.
  — James F. McCarty, cleveland.com, 23 June 2017
• The manure had been held in an anaerobic digester tank, which began operating at the port in 2013.
  — oregonlive.com, 25 July 2019
• The resulting organics are then squeezed out and added to a slurry that goes into the anaerobic digester.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Apr. 2021
• If that is diverted to an anaerobic digester, there’s 65-70% left.
  — Tom Condon, Hartford Courant, 4 May 2022
• In the coming decade, Smithfield plans to cover 90 percent of its hog waste lagoons with these anaerobic digesters.
  — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 12 Apr. 2021
• Around large farms, this waste is often contained in anaerobic lagoons.
  — Umair Irfan, Vox, 18 Sep. 2018
• The ambition was to promote anaerobic digesters for cow manure among clusters of dairy farms across the United States.
  — John Fialka, Scientific American, 6 Mar. 2020
• On Earth, phosphine is often found in places that host anaerobic life, including lakes, marshes, paddy fields and in the sludge of landfills.
  — Katrina Miller, Wired, 14 July 2021
• If a compost pile is anaerobic, there are more serious consequences than the stench.
  — Megan Marples, CNN, 14 Sep. 2022
• Once ingested, it is reduced to NO2 by anaerobic bacteria in the mouth.
  — NOLA.com, 9 Feb. 2018
• The LanzaTech biofoundry is the first anaerobic biofoundry in the world.
  — Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021
• Thanks to an anaerobic digester (turning waste into energy), there isn't even a trash can.
  — Tabitha Joyce, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Aug. 2019
• Properly licensed anaerobic digesters will be able to break it all down, while also killing pathogens.
  — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2021
• Many foods are preserved through anaerobic fermentation: The fresh food is first sun-dried to get rid of excess moisture, then salted.
  — Tejal Rao, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2020
• Metal sulfides left behind by anaerobic bacteria and the breakdown of iron artifacts were sopped by the wood while the ship was submerged.
  — Rasha Aridi, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Nov. 2021
• The result is an airtight, anaerobic environment that keeps spoilage out and goodness in.
  — The Editors, Outdoor Life, 21 Aug. 2019
• Again, these repeats should feel fairly easy compared to your normal VO2 Max speed workouts and your anaerobic longer sprint workouts.
  — Greg McMillan, Outside Online, 19 Oct. 2021
• Their catuai variety is processed using an anaerobic slow dry method where beans are screened-in and left to dry outdoors for 12 days.
  — Sarah Burchard, Forbes, 9 June 2022
• Their sprint-type activities are anaerobic and are followed by periods of rest before they are called to run again.
  — Brian Lynn, Field & Stream, 21 Sep. 2020
• This process drives your body into anaerobic respiration and can push your heart to 90 percent of its maximal heart rate.
  — Jason P. Dinh, Discover Magazine, 20 June 2022
• In landfills, where those same materials would be buried, they are broken down by anaerobic microorganisms, creating methane.
  — Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 9 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024