How to Use biofilm in a Sentence

biofilm

noun

• Baross at the time happened to be studying just such slime, known as a biofilm.
  — Andrew Lawler, Discover Magazine, 22 Nov. 2010
• But the biofilms were made up of just two species of bacteria, B. fragilis and a strain of E. coli.
  — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2018
• The biofilm is, in turn, a food bank for an array of animals—from worms and crabs to fish and birds.
  — Paige Embry, Scientific American, 17 June 2020
• After a few weeks of pouring water over the sand, a gooey biofilm formed on top.
  — Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 8 Aug. 2021
• This will help prevent the formation of those biofilms.
  — Brittany Anas, House Beautiful, 27 June 2023
• The plaque on your teeth is a biofilm; so too are infections on catheters, the slimy green of pond scum and the gunk clogging your bathtub drain.
  — Carrie Arnold, Quanta Magazine, 2 Nov. 2022
• Bogan picked up a rock dotted with snails, which were grazing on the slimy biofilm of microbes.
  — Ian James, AZCentral.com, 8 Sep. 2021
• At present, the researchers have no idea why the bacteria in biofilms are able to remember like this.
  — Kat Eschner, Popular Science, 29 Apr. 2020
• An absence of biofilms means fouling will never get going in the first place.
  — The Economist, 28 May 2020
• The most important part of brushing teeth is removing the biofilm of plaque.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 21 July 2022
• These slimy biofilms typically have to be scrubbed off.
  — NBC News, 17 May 2018
• This biofilm is sandwiched between two mesh electrodes, which transfer the electrons from the biofilm.
  — Miriam Fauzia, Popular Mechanics, 15 Aug. 2022
• The team landed on a biofilm-boosting compound called apigenin.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 30 Aug. 2022
• Others still, through the formation of colonies called biofilms on the surfaces of soil particles, help trap water in the soil.
  — The Economist, 20 Feb. 2020
• Vets say that brushing is best because the mechanical action is what helps remove the biofilm on your dog’s teeth.
  — Woman's Day, 15 Feb. 2023
• The bacteria in biofilm can cause some pretty nasty, hard-to-treat breakouts, Dr. Soleymani says.
  — Amy Marturana Winderl, SELF, 11 June 2021
• Doniger mentions that her goal is getting her patients to floss and brush for two minutes twice a day to get rid of decay- and dental disease-causing biofilm.
  — NBC News, 5 June 2020
• This process, never before attempted on this scale, reduced the pigmented biofilm to a fine ash.
  — Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2021
• The bacteria that normally reside in the mouth grow as dental plaque, a biofilm that firmly attaches to teeth and oral surfaces such as the tongue.
  — Frank Scannapieco, The Conversation, 17 Sep. 2019
• In the bathroom, for instance, water that comes into contact with a hard surface can create what's called a biofilm, a slimy film of microorganisms.
  — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 3 Apr. 2018
• By contrast, Villa has found that biofilms seem to impart a protective effect.
  — National Geographic, 21 Sep. 2016
• Like the biofilm around the rice roots, this mucilage houses nitrogen-fixing bacteria.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 30 Aug. 2022
• Bathtubs can also grow what’s known as a biofilm, or a buildup of microorganisms that stick together to form a visible film—the infamous pink ring—around the tub or drain.
  — Amy Marturana Winderl, SELF, 24 Nov. 2022
• Some biofilm probably has been present on the memorial’s marble surface from its early years.
  — Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2021
• Many years of research on biofilm and migratory shorebirds at Roberts Bank and other areas illustrate the covert yet vital role that the slime plays in the ecosystem.
  — Paige Embry, Scientific American, 17 June 2020
• One of her colleagues, Cynthia Sears, recently received a grant to study biofilms—the colonies of bacteria that grow in the colon and can either promote or prevent cancer growth.
  — Greg Kahn, Smithsonian, 22 Mar. 2018
• The treatment worked in culture dishes and when the bacteria were given the chance to form a biofilm, a dense, three-dimensional mesh that can protect bacteria from drugs.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 18 July 2018
• Then the biofilms would stop expanding until the glutamate was replenished.
  — Quanta Magazine, 5 Sep. 2017
• After all, a thin layer of mixed bacterial species — called a biofilm — coats every available ocean surface.
  — Bob Holmes, Discover Magazine, 29 Sep. 2021
• The goal in brushing focuses on removing the biofilm of plaque from both teeth and gums, not allowing bacteria, fungi and viruses to grow in what is the second-greatest biodiverse home in the human body after the gut.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 21 July 2022

Last Updated: 31 Aug 2024