How to Use biomass in a Sentence

biomass

noun

• Shell sees plenty of scope to substitute biomass and coal with gas and cleaner energy sources in the developing world.
  — The Economist, 4 July 2019
• The treatment will remove much of the woody biomass and the dead and downed wood accumulated over decades of fire suppression tactics.
  — Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 14 June 2024
• The increase in human biomass continues and the same number of animals is targeted by more people.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 2 July 2019
• The researchers’ goal was to grow them in concrete ponds, harvest them, and either extract their oils or, with pressure and heat, liquify the entire biomass into crude oil.
  — Ruth Kassinger, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2019
• A dozen or so massive comets carry enough water and organic molecules to provide all the Earth’s water and biomass.
  — Fox News, 12 June 2019
• Renewables will dominate it, and hydrogen and biomass will complement it.
  — Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
• An industry colleague of Trostle said hemp biomass production wouldn’t make sense financially if the fiber needs to be transported more than 30 miles.
  — Lynn Brezosky, ExpressNews.com, 17 June 2019
• The combination of underground biomass with moderate rainfall—heavy rain can wash away nutrients—tends to make grassland soils very fertile and appealing for agricultural use.
  — Christina Nunez, National Geographic, 22 June 2019
• Then, too, big trees have lots of biomass in the form of limbs.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 30 June 2022
• The biomass of the world’s poultry is three times that of all the wild birds combined.
  — Boyce Upholt, The New Republic, 19 Sep. 2022
• The index is based on the bloom’s biomass — the amount of algae — during the peak 30 days of the bloom.
  — cleveland, 30 June 2022
• Wheat, rice and maize are likely the grasses with the highest biomass in the world.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 May 2022
• For sheer biomass, nothing in the plant kingdom beats a tree.
  — Tamar Haspel, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2023
• The spinach grown next to one of the two exhaust vents on the roof had four times the biomass of spinach grown next to a control fan.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 15 Nov. 2022
• The total biomass of animals in the sea could drop by as much as 15%.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2019
• The mansion uses spring water from the area and a biomass boiler to heat the home.
  — Dana Givens, Robb Report, 8 Nov. 2022
• The mission aims to track changes in biomass over time to learn more about the carbon cycle.
  — Popular Mechanics, 22 Dec. 2022
• The biomass of housecats is about double that of African elephants and four times that of moose.
  — Byelizabeth Pennisi, science.org, 27 Feb. 2023
• The extent of the biomass is to me at least unexpected.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 13 Jan. 2022
• Pigs, which can also carry the flu, make up even more biomass.
  — Boyce Upholt, The New Republic, 19 Sep. 2022
• The biomass industry says the current rules make sense.
  — Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2021
• In woodlands, the number of arthropod species had dropped by more than a third, and biomass by forty per cent.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2021
• Over the last two decades, the USGS work has shown a general decline in the lake's prey fish biomass.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Sep. 2020
• The tips of each branch can grow three inches a day and a plant can double its biomass every two weeks.
  — Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 8 July 2024
• Among marine mammals, baleen whales account for more than half of the biomass.
  — Byelizabeth Pennisi, science.org, 27 Feb. 2023
• Of all the complaints raised against biomass power, emissions may be the loudest.
  — Jane Braxton Little, Wired, 27 June 2020
• The largest one percent of trees—the giants—store half of the above-ground biomass carbon in tropical forests.
  — Ellyn Lapointe, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024
• On land, soils form the largest carbon sink, even larger than the biomass of all forests put together.
  — Emanuela Barbiroglio, Forbes, 4 May 2021
• There is a higher $2,000 credit limit for heat pumps and biomass stoves.
  — Ashlea Ebeling, WSJ, 8 Aug. 2022
• As the permafrost thaws, microbes in the soil awaken and begin to feast on the defrosting biomass.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024