How to Use microbe in a Sentence

microbe

noun

• These microbes have a strange way of thanking us for the meal.
  — Popular Science, 14 Mar. 2024
• The idea is to let this stuff decay and feed the microbes that will feed your lawn.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Apr. 2020
• The health effects are dependent on the genus, species and strain of the microbe.
  — Valerie Agyeman, Good Housekeeping, 22 Nov. 2022
• As the cheeses age, fuzzy and sometimes sticky layers of microbes form on the surfaces of the cheese.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 10 May 2023
• And any microbes and critters the ships picked up near the equator would be dumped, too.
  — oregonlive, 9 Oct. 2019
• Windfall researched the use of these microbes for a decade and launched it to clients two years ago.
  — Diana Olick, CNBC, 13 Aug. 2024
• And to all of you listeners, the yearning for more microbe.
  — Jeffery Delviscio, Scientific American, 10 Apr. 2023
• Food waste and manure are mixed together, and the microbes from the manure break down the food.
  — Hannah Nguyen, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Feb. 2023
• The soil and free-living samples contained the widest range of microbes.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 28 Aug. 2019
• The book describes his two decades of work scouring the world’s oceans for microbes from a 100-foot sailboat.
  — David Ewing Duncan, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2023
• Too late for midnight kissers: Moist lips are rich in microbes.
  — National Geographic, 1 Jan. 2020
• Like all life forms, microbes will feel the impacts of climate change.
  — Julia Rosen, latimes.com, 18 June 2019
• In the depths of a former mine in South Dakota, the journalist learns how microbes carve the Earth’s crust.
  — Joe Spring, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Dec. 2024
• The majority of microbes on the ISS came there on the human skin.
  — Ars Technica, 2 Mar. 2025
• Think of a microbiome as a plant's gut filled with tiny microbes.
  — CBS News, 26 Aug. 2019
• Instead their stomachs host an army of trillions of microbes to do the job.
  — Marianne Krasny, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
• Just as there are many ways for microbes to infect a body, there are many ways for epidemics to play out in the body politic.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2020
• The microbes, which are adapted to life in the cold seafloor, have a slow-motion existence.
  — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2020
• This suggests that both species acquired the microbe from the same source around the same time—or somehow passed it to each other.
  — Tim Vernimmen, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Dec. 2023
• That suggests the Borgs may exist inside the microbe, the researchers say.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 15 July 2021
• Both actions will help wake up and get your microbes into shape and at the right numbers.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Mar. 2020
• Some microbes are helpful to the body, while others can be harmful.
  — Andrea Michelson, Verywell Health, 29 Aug. 2023
• Some of the first findings linking gut microbes to stroke just appeared about three years ago.
  — Diana Kwon, Scientific American, 19 Nov. 2019
• When a baby passes through its mother’s birth canal, it is bathed in a soup of microbes.
  — Sara Reardon, Scientific American, 17 Aug. 2019
• These wipes are your trusty sidekick for tackling the microbes lurking in your room.
  — Catherine Garcia, theweek, 28 Aug. 2024
• Still, the discovery of a tiny dead microbe would offer a granule of hope.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 30 July 2020
• Researchers can add the microbe to the system — or cut out the middleman and just add the hormone instead.
  — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 17 June 2021
• Getting a wild microbe to take root in a petri dish requires painstaking work, expert skills, and a lot of luck.
  — Monique Brouillette, Wired, 18 Dec. 2020
• In this case, the stone absorbs and dissipates moisture while preventing the growth of microbes.
  — Wilder Davies, Bon Appétit, 6 Mar. 2025
• Wildfires pump vast numbers of microbes high into the atmosphere.
  — Meredith Wolf Schizer, Newsweek, 19 Feb. 2025