How to Use microgram in a Sentence

microgram

noun

• This week in New York City, the rate was close to 100 micrograms.
  — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 7 June 2023
• That means the amount of lead in Beethoven's blood could have been between 69 and 71 micrograms per deciliter.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 13 May 2024
• Last March, a blood test revealed that Caiden had a blood lead level of 13 micrograms per deciliter.
  — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 28 Feb. 2024
• His blood came back positive for lead at a rate of 35 micrograms per deciliter.
  — Deborah Bloom, CNN, 20 Apr. 2018
• The boosters are being tested at a 50 microgram dose, or half what is used in the current shot.
  — al, 6 Aug. 2021
• These levels would be 3 micrograms per square foot on the floor and 20 micrograms per square foot for sills.
  — Time, 12 July 2023
• For reference, a normal level of lead in a gram of hair is around 4 micrograms or less.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 May 2024
• This is two to three micrograms more than freight trains contribute.
  — Bárbara Pinho, Ars Technica, 19 July 2024
• In Moderna’s study, kids were given two shots of a 50 microgram dose, which is half of the dose authorized for adults.
  — Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
• The children had BLLs ranging from 4 to 29 micrograms per deciliter (µg/dL)—as much as eight times greater than levels that raise concern.
  — Julia Landwehr, Health, 15 Nov. 2023
• Each dose is just 10 micrograms, a third of the 30 microgram dose given to adolescents and adults.
  — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 3 Nov. 2021
• Adults receive two 30 microgram doses of the vaccine three weeks apart.
  — Matthew Herper, STAT, 20 Sep. 2021
• Healthcare workers found that the baby was anemic and had a blood lead level of 41 micrograms per deciliter (μg/dL).
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 1 Sep. 2017
• Candidates include anyone whose blood was drawn for the test and who had a blood lead level of 10 micrograms or less per deciliter.
  — Washington Post, 17 May 2017
• Because the full-length spike’s gene sequence was about five times as long as the fragment’s, each microgram of vaccine contained one-fifth the number of copies.
  — Brendan Borrell, The Atlantic, 1 Oct. 2021
• When tested, his lead levels were more than 20 micrograms per deciliter.
  — cleveland.com, 25 May 2017
• The report says the concentration of fentanyl in Prince’s blood was 67.8 micrograms per liter.
  — Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2018
• In children under 5, Pfizer and BioNTech have been testing two shots of a three-microgram dose, a small fraction of the adult dose.
  — Laura Meckler, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Dec. 2021
• The cases in which Husel was charged with murder involved the ordering of at least 500 micrograms of fentanyl.
  — NBC News, 19 Dec. 2019
• This is a tiny amount—for comparison, there are more than 28.3 million micrograms in an ounce.
  — Sarah Garone, Health, 25 June 2024
• Lead experts in the United States say workers whose lead level reaches 30 micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood should be removed from the source of the metal.
  — Steve Fisher Alejandro Cegarra, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2023
• The Camarones had the highest levels of all at 1,000 micrograms per liter (a hundred times the safe consumption level).
  — Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 13 Nov. 2023
• A child whose blood test shows 5 micrograms of lead per deciliter or higher is considered poisoned.
  — Jenifer Frank, courant.com, 9 May 2017
• From their current stock of vaccine, providers will be able to simply draw up half of the 100 microgram doses that made up Moderna's first two shots.
  — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2021
• Trace amounts of ketamine were found in Perry's stomach, but the coroner said high levels of the drug were found in his blood: 3.54 micrograms per milliliter.
  — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 15 Dec. 2023
• Until now, the limit had been set to 100 micrograms of silica per cubic meter of air, double the new amount.
  — Annalisa Merelli, STAT, 16 Apr. 2024
• The affected children's blood lead levels ranged from 4 to 29 micrograms per deciliter.
  — CBS News, 13 Nov. 2023
• Even 1 microgram per liter is considered a cause for health concerns.
  — Amelia Dickson, The Seattle Times, 25 May 2017
• Though there’s little data on the subject, older research found that a person drinking 5 cups of decaf coffee a day might be exposed to about 12 micrograms of methylene chloride.
  — Sarah Garone, Health, 25 June 2024
• Their results showed that the odds of getting dementia went up 21% for every additional microgram per cubic meter of fine particulate matter from smoke that participants were exposed to, on average, over three years.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 31 July 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024