How to Use clone in a Sentence

clone

1 of 2 noun

• The clone of the tree that grew from a seed that went to the moon doesn’t look like much.
  — Penelope Green Balarama Heller, New York Times, 14 July 2023
• At the same time, Sophos says that Thor is a clone of Kratos.
  — George Yang, Variety, 11 Nov. 2022
• Some of them look like straight-up clones of the Pencil.
  — Cierra Cowan, PCMAG, 1 Feb. 2024
• The group's clones shade the streets of Seattle and Eugene, Oregon.
  — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2024
• As a clone of Joan of Arc, you’d be morbid too if you were burned at the stake.
  — Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 21 Feb. 2024
• Her menu isn’t a clone of what’s cooking in Falls Church.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2023
• The World of Avatar and a virtual clone of the theater was built in the park’s Africa section.
  — Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 28 July 2022
• There are multiple clones of Erin and there is one clone of KJ.
  — ELLE, 29 July 2022
• And the real challenge at the end of the day with cloning is who's going to do the work of parenting that clone?
  — Gideon Lichfield, WIRED, 26 July 2023
• The trees spread through root shoots, so those clusters are clones of each other.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Aug. 2023
• The original Maya, who provided the donor cells for the clone, died of old age last year.
  — Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 28 Sep. 2022
• The clone only lived for a few minutes and died because of a lung defect.
  — Theara Coleman, The Week, 22 Feb. 2023
• The hope is to plant little Stumpy clones on the National Mall or nearby parks.
  — Kevin Ambrose, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2024
• Scoles: Not clones of you, exactly? Moskowitz: Not even close.
  — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 22 Feb. 2023
• At the time of the cover shoot, Art Jr. looked like a tiny clone of his father, complete with golden, curly locks of hair.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 27 Jan. 2024
• His memory comes to an end as the clones spot Grogu in his hiding spot and move toward him.
  — Sydney Odman, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Feb. 2023
• But in the four years since its launch, not a single automaker has made a Cybertruck clone.
  — Carlton Reid, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2023
• Named Holly+, the vocal clone sings in Herndon’s voice but can be prompted to sing anything.
  — WIRED, 27 Nov. 2022
• Hatred leads all the unused clones of Hank and Dean into battle to aid Brock.
  — Mat Olson, Vulture, 19 July 2023
• Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter clone Threads rode a screaming missile out of the gate.
  — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 17 Aug. 2023
• In response, the singer’s clone shakes her head in disappointment.
  — Alexandra Del Rosariostaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2022
• The three of us became funny-looking clones, Edgars before there were Edgars.
  — Myriam Gurba, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023
• Each tree is a clone stem of the same plant, all connected by an underground network of roots.
  — Heather Souvaine Horn, The New Republic, 14 Apr. 2023
• My evil clone would absolutely be named Lauren Badde with an E at the end.
  — Gideon Lichfield, WIRED, 26 July 2023
• In the new video, Lizzo is dressed in white and walking down the aisle, but instead of a groom, a clone of herself waits for her ready to exchange vows.
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 15 Aug. 2022
• Things go awry when he’s presumed dead and a replacement clone, dubbed Mickey 8, tries to take his place.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 3 Jan. 2024
• Terrell noted that Spill isn’t designed to be a Twitter clone.
  — Elizabeth Dwoskin, Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2023
• The album’s digital cover art sees the back of Grande’s head, leaning against a clone of herself.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 8 Mar. 2024
• Having weird bottle episodes like Episode 3 with the clone scientist or Episode 6 with the Scooby Doo stuff and the cameos just felt so tonally bizarre.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
• Each relationship will be different, whether your new puppy is a clone of your previous beloved pet or has its own unique set of genes.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 9 Apr. 2024

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clone

2 of 2 verb

• Do you think scientists should clone humans?
• If you were cloned, would the clone have the same sense of humor as you?
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 9 Apr. 2019
• Genies Avatars are NFTs, so no one is able to clone you and rob a bank.
  — Charlie Fink, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2022
• She gets cloned, and lives on as a young version of herself.
  — Elena Nicolaou, refinery29.com, 15 July 2019
• Master Zindt will not respawn and clone himself a bunch of times.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2021
• Scientists in Italy had cloned the first horse in 2003.
  — Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2023
• These tests cannot be used to clone humans, experts said.
  — Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2022
• Gardeners dug these variants and took them to the greenhouse to clone them.
  — Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2021
• The grove’s adult trees resprout over and over by cloning, and some of them are likely to be many thousands of years old.
  — Maddie Stone, The Atlantic, 25 Feb. 2020
• The Mi Watch is an Apple Watch clone, but the design is pretty much the only thing that's cloned here.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 6 Nov. 2019
• The engine control unit stores a copy of the wireless key code, and thieves can clone this to a blank key fob to use to start the victim’s car.
  — Doug Jacobson, The Conversation, 14 Aug. 2023
• This technique was famously used to clone Dolly the sheep in 1996.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 14 Aug. 2020
• Building a training set for cloning Herzog's voice was the easiest part of the process.
  — Giacomo Miceli, Scientific American, 17 Jan. 2023
• There is a workaround that requires you to clone the flow and select a new trigger.
  — Gabriel Zamora, PCMAG, 31 Jan. 2024
• The authors claim these strains could have been used as a template to clone a deadlier virus.
  — Monique Brouillette, National Geographic, 18 Sep. 2020
• The last of the animals died out in 2000, but three years later scientists used its frozen cells to clone a calf.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 26 Oct. 2022
• Being able to clone themselves, in effect, might allow big stars to take an even bigger share of the pie.
  — The Economist, 5 July 2018
• All those murdered guests, were they to be cloned back to consciousness, would not present the threat of wrongful-death lawsuits.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 3 June 2018
• Scientists used a bacterium to clone each piece of the genome, and then studied them in smaller groups.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 1 Apr. 2022
• NBC News Digital is aware that its sites are being cloned.
  — NBC News, 19 Oct. 2019
• Women from nearby villages have been trained to clone the trees and prune and tend to the precious cutlings, wearing straw hats to guard against the hot sun.
  — John Schmid, jsonline.com, 2 Nov. 2022
• Now comes the tough part: explaining to his basic demographic of Archie Bunker clones what a podcast is and how to find the darn thing.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Dec. 2019
• Do these animals, cloned from ancient DNA, deserve the same protection as the rest of the planet’s species?
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 20 June 2018
• Meta is used to cloning its competitors Meta is no stranger to cloning its competitors’ ideas and selling them to users like its own.
  — Scott Nover, Quartz, 6 July 2023
• Two extinct cats could be cloned and set up in an island park for Jeff Goldblum to admire himself next to.
  — Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Mar. 2023
• Some interpret Brady’s scene coming out of a strip-mall spa that’s central to the cloning premise of the show as trolling Patriots owner Robert Kraft.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Nov. 2019
• Set in the 22nd century, the fate of a civil war hinges on a researcher's ability to clone her soldier mother's brain.
  — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 30 Jan. 2023
• The show implies that the fictional Brady, played by the real Brady, has cloned himself six times, once before each Super Bowl win.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Oct. 2019
• Rather than cloning Twitch, the other video platforms are crafting their own identities.
  — Amrita Khalid, Quartz, 28 Jan. 2020
• You are supposed to clone and fuse yourself in order to conceal your Black or indigenous side.
  — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024