How to Use organism in a Sentence

organism

noun

• A human being is a complex organism.
• This galaxy of organisms makes up the base of the oceanic food web.
  — WIRED, 2 Aug. 2023
• The largest living organism on Earth is not the blue whale.
  — Tom Shippey, WSJ, 11 Feb. 2022
• The organism is a fungus that affects the new leaves and fruits.
  — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 26 June 2021
• No organism on Earth is known to live as long as the Great Basin bristlecone pine.
  — Sarah Kaplan, Anchorage Daily News, 14 July 2022
• The Imperia speakers made a sound that was wide and vivid and full of dirty weight, the breath of an organism.
  — Sasha Frere-Jones, Harper’s Magazine , 9 Nov. 2022
• Almost overnight, a slime mold, fungus-like organism oozes up the stems and leaf blades of turf.
  — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 17 July 2021
• The presence of the organism — thought to be a sea snail — kept the 14-deck Viking Orion adrift 16 miles off the coast of Adelaide, Australia.
  — Natasha Frost, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2023
• In other words, the Rangers are poised to flood the zone with arms, which really is the best approach to an organism like the bullpen.
  — Dallas News, 8 Feb. 2023
• Glowing organisms, like the ones observed in the video, are most commonly found in the ocean.
  — Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2023
• After sinking to the canal bed, the organisms begin to digest sludge—up to 10 square feet or more of the stuff per ball.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Nov. 2024
• The catch was that introners were only known to exist in a few organisms.
  — Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
• These are cells that can grow and live outside of a living organism so they can be kept in a petri dish or a flask.
  — Eva Amsen, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
• Yet, on the species level, an organism might not need to survive to be reborn.
  — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 27 Dec. 2023
• Image in the Age of A.I. Like a living organism, the project has morphed and evolved alongside its founders.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 30 Nov. 2023
• In this view, the moss shifts from organism to ecosystem, with weather that shapes what can and cannot survive in it.
  — Deboki Chakravarti, Scientific American, 13 Aug. 2021
• Among the most vulnerable organisms to this change are the world’s corals.
  — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Apr. 2024
• Either way, the strength of the germline signal regulates the organism’s life span, Dillin said.
  — Quanta Magazine, 8 Jan. 2024
• To further test the hypothesis that the organism was eating the virus, the researchers added dye to the chlorovirus DNA.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 30 Dec. 2022
• Watch this video to see a few organisms invisible to the naked eye.
  — Alexandra Banner, CNN, 20 Sep. 2024
• So mycelium is the organism that mushrooms grow from and the substrate is their food and habitat.
  — Bon Appétit, 9 Oct. 2024
• The egg and each polar body each contain half of the complement of genes needed to make a new organism.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 18 Feb. 2024
• This is the organism’s source code, durable and redundant.
  — Christof Koch, Scientific American, 6 Oct. 2021
• The harmful effects of a red tide are caused by toxins released by the organism.
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2023
• Like corals do in reef ecosystems, the organisms of the open ocean have certain tolerances for heat.
  — WIRED, 2 Aug. 2023
• Scrub mints are a clade – a group of organisms that share a common ancestor.
  — Andre A. Naranjo, The Conversation, 6 Jan. 2025
• Known as Pando, the organism is a 106-acre stand of quaking aspen clones.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 30 Nov. 2021
• The massive organism covers an area of 77 square miles.
  — Danielle Hall, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2022
• The hatchlings then drift in the open ocean, clinging to floating sargassum and feeding on small organisms found in the seaweed.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Mar. 2025
• Using substances derived from living organisms, immunotherapies spur the immune system to target cancer cells.
  — Mark Gurarie, Health, 16 Mar. 2025