How to Use cell wall in a Sentence

cell wall

noun

• Fresh, whole fruit has the most fiber because the cell walls are intact.
  — Danielle Weiss, Verywell Health, 25 June 2023
• Inside the membrane of the cell wall, a minute world on which all of life depends.
  — Wsj Books Staff, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2022
• With the pressure of miles of ocean above them, these cell walls are held in a workable shape.
  — Rudy Molinek, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 July 2024
• When plants freeze the water inside freezes, and that expands the breaks the cell wall, Gieseke said.
  — John S. Marshall, Houston Chronicle, 2 Jan. 2018
• The stuff that's hurting your eyeballs is gas from inside the cell walls of onions.
  — Alyse Whitney, Bon Appetit, 20 Apr. 2017
• His cell walls and floor were found covered with feces and urine.
  — Darcie Moran, Detroit Free Press, 31 Jan. 2020
• Serna was left lying prone on the floor, her head between the cell wall and floor.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Aug. 2023
• The chitosan that Dyson is using is found in the cell walls of mushrooms, and helps to give the fungi their shape.
  — Samantha Conti, WWD, 15 Aug. 2024
• Plants need calcium to build cell walls and grow strong new root tips, shoots, and leaves.
  — Stacey Leasca, Southern Living, 7 May 2024
• The incoming water in the potato cells pushes on the cell walls and makes the cells bigger.
  — Svenja Lohner, Scientific American, 9 Jan. 2020
• That evening at around 7 p.m., Pascua and a deputy witnessed Serna have a seizure and fall to the floor, hitting her head on the cell wall.
  — Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2022
• The footage shows Serna stiffen up and fall sideways, her head striking the cell wall.
  — Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 July 2023
• The cell wall structure is still there, so now there’s a sponge-like structure of almost pure carbon.
  — Helen Czerski, WSJ, 6 Aug. 2021
• Serna is seen remaining in the same position on the floor with her head tucked between the cell wall and cell door.
  — Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 July 2023
• On the cell walls Kushner glimpsed pictures of Harley-Davidsons, relics of a former life.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2018
• By attaching to the surface of the bacteria's cell wall, the nanoparticles disrupt the wall and burst it open.
  — Patrick Morgan, Discover Magazine, 6 Apr. 2011
• Matt and Sweat used tools smuggled by Mitchell to cut through a steel cell wall and several steam pipes to make an escape route through the bowels of the prison.
  — Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2017
• While tiny, these cells are protected by armored plates, two cell membranes, and a cell wall.
  — Kyle Frischkorn, Smithsonian, 3 Aug. 2017
• Potatoes are made of cells, and their cell walls act as semipermeable membranes.
  — Svenja Lohner, Scientific American, 9 Jan. 2020
• Then, the toxin draws more toxins to the site, concentrating their power to cut a hole in the cell wall, Mesnage says.
  — Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 6 Nov. 2019
• Each has a thick lignified, or rigid, cell wall (green), which provides structural support to the stem or plant body.
  — Andrea Gawrylewski, Scientific American, 9 Oct. 2020
• Each cell in that outer ring has a strong cell wall and is normally plump because it’s filled with water.
  — Helen Czerski, WSJ, 25 June 2021
• The cell walls act as a semipermeable membrane that only let water through.
  — Svenja Lohner, Scientific American, 9 Jan. 2020
• Unlike plants, the cell walls of mushrooms are lined with a fibrous substance called chitin, which makes them strong and flexible.
  — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 22 Sep. 2017
• The process involves a molecule called caffeic acid, which is abundant in plants to make cell walls.
  — WIRED, 19 Sep. 2023
• Both a nurse and a sheriff’s deputy watched Serna collapse after striking her head on a cell wall while having a seizure.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 July 2021
• When the toxin reaches the outer surface of a cell, this protein forms into a doughnut-like shape, then punches a hole through the cell wall.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023
• Cooking tomatoes breaks down the cell walls and releases the lycopene for our bodies to enjoy.
  — Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 31 July 2023
• From there, the fungal strands intermittently punch through plant cell walls to enter the cells and absorb food.
  — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 24 Aug. 2023
• Both fungi and insects use the polysaccharide chitin to build cell walls, while plants use cellulose.
  — Eleanor McCrary, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024