How to Use growth ring in a Sentence

growth ring

noun

• The new study used lasers to sample tiny slices of a mollusk's shell and count the growth rings.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2020
• The researchers then used a microscope to count the growth rings on each slice of otolith.
  — Sean Landsman, National Geographic, 2 Aug. 2019
• Winter and summer are hard to tell apart, so most trees lack growth rings.
  — Nell Zink, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
• Once the wood was smooth, each growth ring was analyzed in detail.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 6 May 2022
• The tight and even growth rings are vital to the instrument’s tone quality.
  — Patrick Raycraft, courant.com, 11 July 2019
• Trees in temperate climate zones form a growth ring each year, just under the bark.
  — Aoife Daly, Discover Magazine, 15 Mar. 2022
• Even then, the growth rings were too narrow to be examined effectively by eye.
  — Anna Gibbs, Quanta Magazine, 20 Mar. 2023
• Inundate an oak tree for a couple weeks and that year’s growth ring will show damage at the cellular level.
  — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 4 Apr. 2018
• Acreage targets are not arbitrary but are based on historic burn intervals recorded in the growth ring of old trees.
  — Arkansas Online, 26 Nov. 2021
• By measuring how much Carbon-14 was in each growth ring, the scientists could calculate its age.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 6 Apr. 2020
• The fossilized mollusk shell belonged to a group called rudist clams, which grew quickly and recorded their lives in daily growth rings visible in the shells.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 13 Mar. 2020
• Details in the tusk material include growth rings and hints of animal health.
  — Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 3 May 2023
• After cutting the tree (preferably in winter when the sap flow is down), section a 4- to 6-foot length and scrape off the bark, taking care not to cut through the outer growth ring, which would create a weak spot where the bow can break.
  — Keith McCafferty, Field & Stream, 29 June 2023
• Grissino-Mayer and colleagues determined conclusively that the last growth ring present on the double bass grew in 1761.
  — Stephen E. Nash, Discover Magazine, 3 May 2017
• Tree trunks have growth rings; each concentric circle represents one year.
  — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 27 Sep. 2023
• Researchers examined growth rings taken from inside the trunks of 34 healthy ginkgo trees in two Chinese provinces, Jiangsu and Hubei.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 14 Jan. 2020
• Baked on a spit-like rotisserie, Baumkuchen is a round German cake with golden circular lines resembling a tree's growth ring (see image at the top of this story).
  — Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN, 5 Dec. 2021
• Teeth have growth rings, much like trees, that determine age as well as minerals gained from the individual's diet.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 15 July 2019
• Thin lines within a bone — much like growth rings in a tree — can indicate the age of an animal by marking where the growth of the cortical bone slowed or stopped for annual dry seasons or winters.
  — Anna Gibbs, Quanta Magazine, 20 Mar. 2023
• She and her colleagues also examined growth rings, which resemble tree rings and form each year when bone growth briefly pauses for a couple months before firing up again.
  — Kate Baggaley, Popular Science, 3 Jan. 2020
• Researchers analyzed the dry and wet cycles that have swept across western North America over centuries by examining the ancient records inscribed in the growth rings of trees.
  — Ian James, azcentral, 6 May 2020
• Petrified wood is a familiar example of fossilization—pieces of tree trunks turn into super-hard rocks, but still retain growth rings and even cell structures of the once-living tree.
  — Anna K. Behrensmeyer, Smithsonian, 8 June 2019
• For example, researchers at the arboretum are investigating the Chicago region’s climate history by studying the wet and dry years recorded in the growth rings of old trees.
  — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 21 June 2019
• The analysis provided accurate measurements of the width and number of daily growth rings as well as seasonal patterns.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2020
• For example: The density of the cells that form a tree's annual growth ring varies based on the ambient temperature and humidity of the tree's environment.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 14 Feb. 2020
• Certain types including oak show cellular-level damage when swamped, and which is visible in the trees’ growth rings, providing an annual record of when the river overflowed.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 10 Apr. 2018
• Unlike trees such as redwoods and oaks, baobabs can’t simply be aged by counting their growth rings; as the trees grow, their rings fade or are erased, and their giant interior cavities make the remaining traces difficult to count.
  — National Geographic, 11 June 2018
• Examining the growth rings, Li Wang, a plant molecular biologist at Yangzhou University, and colleagues discovered that the ginkgoes’ growth didn’t slow down after hundreds of years—in fact, their growth rates sometimes sped up.
  — Erin Malsbury, Science | AAAS, 13 Jan. 2020
• The strain of rising average temperatures and dropping regular precipitation can be measured in the shrinking growth rings of century-old trees.
  — The Arizona Republic, 22 Apr. 2023
• Variations in thickness, density, and chemical composition of growth rings reveal climatic conditions year by year.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 19 Mar. 2020

Last Updated: 18 Aug 2024