How to Use microorganism in a Sentence

microorganism

noun

• Indeed, there appear to be at least as many microorganism cells in the body as human cells.
  — Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2018
• And what if microorganisms did, in fact, exist on Mars billions of years ago?
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 7 June 2018
• The microorganisms that usually live there won't thrive in sunlight.
  — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 21 May 2018
• Five percent of 900 tick species are known to transmit disease-causing microorganisms.
  — Joyce Sakamoto, Washington Post, 18 June 2018
• While the early part of the digestive tract is largely free of bacteria, these later structures are home to trillions of gut microorganisms.
  — Markham Heid, Time, 6 June 2018
• Sweeteners such as saccharin have been shown to change the type and function of the gut microbiome, the community of microorganisms that live in the intestine.
  — Eunice Zhang, Washington Post, 3 June 2018
• That leaves open the possibility that microorganisms once populated our planetary neighbor and still might.
  — Marcia Dunn, chicagotribune.com, 7 June 2018
• Just because having a more diverse microbiome is better and dirt has a lot of different microorganisms, doesn’t necessarily mean that eating dirt will be good for you.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
• Today, that is microorganisms in the ocean and plants on land.
  — Fox News, 3 Sep. 2019
• The limbs may have had tight angles to the trunk which can be weak points letting in the microorganisms.
  — oregonlive.com, 8 June 2019
• The sounds of worms and microorganisms at work emerged as the honking peals of a saxophone.
  — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• The microorganisms have learned to wait out the heat of the day in a dehydrated, dormant state.
  — Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 12 July 2023
• Such microorganism are thought to be among the earliest forms of life on Earth.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
• Algae grows on the ice, which helps feed microorganisms.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 July 2023
• The real answer, the data shows, might relate to the microbiome (the microorganisms in the gut).
  — Nicole Blackwood, chicagotribune.com, 12 June 2019
• Plus, many types of microorganisms don’t affect us at all.
  — Good Housekeeping, 19 Aug. 2023
• Growth is stopped when food is frozen, but microorganisms are not destroyed.
  — Washington Post, 13 May 2020
• Staff at the facility can infuse ozone into the water supply in an attempt to destroy microorganisms and degrade organic pollutants, such as cyanotoxins.
  — Molly Harbarger, OregonLive.com, 4 June 2018
• This may be because the cheese helps create a better makeup of microorganisms in the mouth.
  — Merve Ceylan, Health, 24 July 2024
• Once in the lake, chemicals from the plant could be taken up by microorganisms and wildlife living there.
  — Emma Penrod, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Aug. 2023
• But this can take away from the microorganisms providing the current nutrients in the soil to your plants.
  — Lauren David, Southern Living, 3 Sep. 2024
• The microorganism can be found in all sorts of food products, including snacks.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 29 Apr. 2022
• The limits to alien life may differ from those imposed on our own world’s microorganisms.
  — Robin George Andrews, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2019
• Over time, microorganisms ate the flesh from those bones, and the museum gained four full walrus skeletons.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 5 Apr. 2020
• Each tree house is positioned high enough off the ground to allow the soil and microorganisms below to flourish.
  — Michelle Gross, Robb Report, 11 May 2023
• Compost piles heat up when microorganisms feed on waste.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 26 May 2023
• Fungi, insects, and microorganisms quickly break down the wood and roots.
  — Zayna Syed, Popular Science, 17 Apr. 2023
• Peat moss doesn’t foster the microorganisms that plants rely on in nature.
  — Brianna Wilson, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2023
• Through phylogenetic research, the scientists traced the mummies' cheese microorganisms as being most closely related to the Tibetan strain.
  — New Atlas, 25 Sep. 2024
• Sewage is also treated using sustainable technology that uses microorganisms instead of chemicals to minimize the impact of the lodge’s waste on the environment.
  — Jamie Ditaranto, Travel + Leisure, 9 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024