How to Use cellulosic in a Sentence

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• Remember in 2006 when George W. Bush and Democrats said that mass production of cellulosic ethanol was right around the corner?
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2020
• The resulting proposal aims to lower the cellulosic ethanol requirement for the first time -- to 238 million gallons next year.
  — Mario Parker, Bloomberg.com, 30 Sep. 2017
• The project, a speck of industry just outside tiny Emmetsburg, Iowa, was to be the nation’s first-ever cellulosic ethanol plant to operate at commercial scale.
  — Erika Fry, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2017
• More than 200 million trees are logged each year to be transformed into cellulosic fabrics like viscose, rayon, lyocell, modal, cupro, and Tencel.
  — Arizona Muse, Vogue, 21 Sep. 2022
• Body Butter offers effortless, day-to-day fashions that highlight your natural curves with fabric that is as smooth as butter and made of cellulosic fibers.
  — Emerald Elitou, Essence, 3 Aug. 2022
• One of them provides raw material for cellulosic ethanol, in which certain grasses and the stalks of food crops are converted into liquid fuel.
  — Eric Toensmeier, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2020
• Plus, biofuels like cellulosic ethanol could provide another 25% of U.S. oil needs.
  — Michael Lynch, Forbes, 2 June 2021
• To gain a distribution advantage cotton plants produce a pure cellulosic fiber from the seed that is intended to help the wind carry the seed once the cotton bolls open to support distribution of cotton seed to a greater area.
  — Joseph Deacetis, Forbes, 10 June 2021
• Continuing the $1-per-gallon subsidy for cellulosic ethanol and the renewable fuel standards will also help.
  — Discover Magazine, 17 Nov. 2010
• There’s cellulosic fibers from Eastman Naia Renew made from wood pulp or hard-to-recycle materials like carpet.
  — Max Berlinger, Vogue, 16 Nov. 2021
• First, dust-borne iron particles land randomly on the paper, disrupting the cellulosic structure and generating a nucleation point of damage.
  — Jeffrey Marlow, Discover Magazine, 27 Feb. 2016
• And to what extent do the farmers harvesting the Himalayan nettle retain ownership of the natural capital in the lustrous long fibers, which have superior mechanical properties when compared to their cellulosic cousins cotton, hemp, and linen.
  — Brooke Roberts-Islam, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2021
• Oil companies can comply by blending more biofuels into their products, particularly advanced biofuels such as renewable diesel and cellulosic ethanol.
  — David R. Baker, The Seattle Times, 28 Feb. 2018

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024