How to Use cell wall in a Sentence

cell wall

noun
  • Kale's fibrous cell walls may prevent your body from absorbing nutrients, but cooking kale can reduce its antioxidant content.
    Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 8 Dec. 2023
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • This causes fat cells to freeze, breaking cell walls and causing cell death (apoptosis).
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Bacteria are surrounded by a cell wall and a membrane; many antibiotics use a channel in these structures to get inside the bacterium.
    Bill Sullivan, Discover Magazine, 3 Nov. 2021
  • The drugs are generally active against gram-positive bacteria, a group of bacteria that has peptidoglycan on the outside of the cell wall.
    Jenny Sweigard, Verywell Health, 16 Nov. 2023

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