How to Use fat cell in a Sentence

fat cell

noun

• What this will do is shrink fat cells by getting rid of the edema (swelling) in the tissues.
  — Jane Carlson, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Oct. 2017
• That’s in part because cannabinoids are stored in fat cells.
  — Molly Sullivan, Sacramento Bee, 21 Feb. 2024
• One study found that the sun's rays may shrink the fat cells beneath your top layer of skin when exposed to the sun.
  — Sherri Gordon, Health, 9 July 2024
• Over the course of a few weeks, the dead fat cells are absorbed and eliminated as waste.
  — Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 11 Jan. 2019
• Lipid bilayers, made up of two sheets of fat cells, form the cell membrane.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 7 Nov. 2019
• Over the next two to three months, the frozen fat cells break apart and are flushed out through your lymphatic system.
  — Nicole Catanese, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Oct. 2015
• The fat cells are then disposed and can never return to the area they were suctioned from.
  — Bryce Gruber, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Mar. 2016
• The rest of the excess glucose gets stored in our fat cells as body fat, again with the assistance of insulin.
  — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 23 May 2019
• What marbled the meat had not come from a butchered pig but a living hog whose fat cells had been sampled and grown in a vat.
  — Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 23 Feb. 2023
• Once damaged, the fat cells are swept away by the body's lymphatic system.
  — Macaela MacKenzie, Allure, 18 Apr. 2018
• What Is the Function of Leptin? Leptin is a hormone that’s released by fat cells and processed in the brain.
  — Kelly Burch, Verywell Health, 3 Dec. 2024
• When a person uses delta-8, it is absorbed into the bloodstream and then stored in fat cells.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 9 Sep. 2023
• The size of these fat cells in mice given the drug shrunk 30% after 10 days of treatment compared to those given a placebo.
  — Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 5 Jan. 2018
• In males, estrogen is produced in the testes and, similar to women, in fat cells and adrenal glands.
  — Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2023
• And now, scientists have discovered a new kind of fat cell.
  — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 15 Aug. 2024
• At the same time, radiofrequency waves help to heat up fat, killing fat cells and allowing your body to flush them out.
  — Garrett Munce, Men's Health, 13 Mar. 2023
• There are two forms of fat cells, brown cells and white cells, and each plays a different role in our metabolism.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 24 June 2019
• The new paper suggests that in fat cells, these changes linger even after a person loses weight.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2024
• But scientists began to notice that some beige fat cells didn’t have UCP1 at all.
  — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 15 Aug. 2024
• When under stress, the fat cells break down, releasing a blitz of cannabinoids into the bloodstream.
  — Molly Sullivan, Sacramento Bee, 21 Feb. 2024
• Its role is to dictate whether glucose is used, stored in muscles and the liver, or put into fat cells to save for later.
  — Hannah Coates, Vogue, 27 Oct. 2023
• Its role is to dictate whether glucose is used, stored in muscles and the liver, or put into fat cells to save for later.
  — Hannah Coates, Vogue, 13 Sep. 2024
• By three weeks post-jab, new blood vessels are taking root and fat cells are moving into the matrix, Chnari says.
  — Jolene Edgar, Allure, 9 Jan. 2025
• The little chambers in our skin that house fat cells look different between the sexes.
  — Sara Chodosh, Popular Science, 30 Dec. 2019
• My fat cells are still dealing with the ramifications of it.
  — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 3 June 2023
• The rapid contractions also cause your muscles to release chemicals that tell fat cells in the area to break down.
  — Samantha Lauriello, Health.com, 13 June 2019
• When these fat cells are filled with fat, leptin is supposed to send signals to the appetite control center in the brain reducing the urge to eat.
  — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 22 Mar. 2018
• During this process, known as lipolysis, the HGH turns the fat cell into energy.
  — Dallas News, 28 Oct. 2022
• The distribution of fat cells throughout your body affects how long delta THC lingers in your system.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 13 Aug. 2023
• The tissue may resemble fat, but fat cells don’t belong in cartilage.
  — Max G. Levy, WIRED, 9 Jan. 2025