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
• None of the patients had oil droplets in their lungs, the doctors found.
  — oregonlive, 3 Oct. 2019
• The aerosol droplets from the spray kill mosquitoes on contact in the air.
  — Maria Lovato, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2019
• 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 virus is mainly spread by the droplets made when people with the virus cough, sneeze, or talk.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 22 Jan. 2018
• 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
• These atrapanieblas capture droplets from the fog that rolls in from the sea 4km (2.5 miles) away.
  — The Economist, 14 June 2018
• 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
• This is not the first study to suggest that small droplets can carry flu virus.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 23 Jan. 2018
• 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 dark spots drew together and welled like a droplet of sweat, then ran down her wrist and fell to the carpet.
  — EW.com, 14 Jan. 2025
• The gravel will change the angle at which the droplets bounce, keeping the siding drier.
  — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
• Each of these acts plays out in a clear droplet on the microscopic stage.
  — Anna Groves, Discover Magazine, 15 Apr. 2019
• The vog's sulfuric acid droplets would fall, too -- thus, acid rain.
  — Jason Hanna, CNN, 10 May 2018
• The first major mode of transmission for flu is by droplet.
  — Cincinnati Enquirer, The Enquirer, 26 Sep. 2022
• The scales are hydrophobic enough to make water droplets bead up — but hydrophilic enough to keep them from rolling right off the reptiles.
  — Jason Bittel, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
• Removing soap scum and water droplets from glass shower doors has never been easier with this $10 squeegee.
  — Carly Totten, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 9 Mar 2025