How to Use droplet in a Sentence

droplet

noun
  • Droplets of water collected on the windows.
  • The droplets can be inhaled around the sides of the masks.
    Yoko Kubota, WSJ, 10 Feb. 2020
  • Yet all the drops and droplets that did fall didn’t add up to much.
    Martin Weil, Washington Post, 14 May 2023
  • The droplets that fall from it put the rain in rainforest.
    Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2023
  • For $99, the only part of you that gets to make the trip is a tiny droplet of your spit.
    Steve Rubenstein, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Feb. 2021
  • To taste even a droplet is to get an idea of eating lava.
    Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Enlarge / Close-up of the anal stylus used to fling pee droplets.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Blood welled on the 64-year-old’s fingertip, and the nurse coaxed a droplet into a vial.
    Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The paste is warmed and stirred in a mixer to help release the oil and form larger droplets.
    Aviv Joshua, Verywell Health, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Five droplets means you’ll get doused; one droplet is more akin to a light sprinkle.
    Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2024
  • Some droplets seemed to loiter in the air, to be depicted as mist.
    Martin Weil, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2023
  • The water beads up into droplets and sits on the surface of your hair.
    Erica Metzger, Women's Health, 28 June 2023
  • As the plume returns to Earth, small droplets begin to condense and rain down.
    Alka Tripathy-Lang, Ars Technica, 26 Jan. 2024
  • As the moon circles Saturn, those frozen droplets form a ring around the planet.
    Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Only a few diseases were thought to break this droplet rule.
    Megan Molteni, Wired, 13 May 2021
  • When safety Max Williams caught the ball, water droplets splashed in his face.
    Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Swaying branches and heavy droplets of rain play tricks on their eyes and ears.
    Jace Bauserman, Outdoor Life, 4 Mar. 2020
  • The river water splashed our faces, the droplets like needles pricking the skin.
    Lawrence Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • The gravel will change the angle at which the droplets bounce, keeping the siding drier.
    Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The first major mode of transmission for flu is by droplet.
    Cincinnati Enquirer, The Enquirer, 26 Sep. 2022
  • In the hours before sunrise, the fine droplets of light drizzle mingled with fog and mist.
    Martin Weil, Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2023
  • The process works through an aerosol mist which deposits tiny droplets past the skin barrier.
    Kiana Murden, Vogue, 2 July 2024
  • Ever seen a fish swimming through water droplets in the air?
    Sean Hollister, The Verge, 23 Sep. 2024
  • But cicadas drink so much sap that peeing in droplets is too much work.
    Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 30 Apr. 2024
  • At 75 seconds, droplets ran down her cheek and onto her neck.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 10 Sep. 2024
  • These droplets then land on objects and surfaces around the person.
    Mayank Aggarwal, Quartz India, 25 Mar. 2020
  • That allows the smaller droplets to coat the waxy leaves more uniformly.
    Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 13 Feb. 2020
  • It can also be spread in water droplets then come in contact with eyes, the nose or mouth.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 9 May 2024
  • This could be through coughs, sneezes or barks that release airborne droplets and infect items like food or a water bowl, the American Kennel Club reports.
    Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2024
  • The laser blasts the water into tiny droplets and propels them into an apparatus that simulates the bucket-detector process of SUDA to generate spectra.
    science.org, 19 Sep. 2024

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