How to Use progenitor in a Sentence

progenitor

noun

• But by the close of the 20th century, the shirt’s progenitor seemed to have lost the thread.
  — Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 30 Sep. 2021
• Iron was formed in the cores of the massive first stars that were the progenitors of the metal-poor ones, Ezzeddine says.
  — Rachel Crowell, Scientific American, 31 May 2019
• The study suggests that stem and progenitor cells are younger than the rest of the organ, Conboy said.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2019
• Farewell, sweet iPod — namesake of the podcast, progenitor of the iPhone.
  — Vulture, 13 May 2022
• Kanye in some ways is the progenitor of what’s going on in our culture.
  — Samuel Hine, GQ, 30 May 2018
• There’s an à-la-carte menu, and a shop-the-pantry conceit that harks back to the whole dinner-in-a-deli vibe of its Roman progenitor.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2023
• The progenitor cells are placed in the inner ear and can create the tiny hair cells that our hearing relies on.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 3 May 2022
• None of these options work well for dealing with wild progenitors of species such as yaks and camels.
  — Discover Magazine, 5 July 2024
• This is because to leave the black hole detected today, the progenitor star must have possessed around 20 times the mass of the sun.
  — Robert Lea, Popular Mechanics, 6 Dec. 2022
• The band’s first album was a solid progenitor of art rock.
  — Brad Auerbach, SPIN, 2 Oct. 2022
• Just remember, all of these moves stem from the same progenitor, the standard pushup.
  — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 2 June 2023
• Perhaps each of the two progenitor pairs were born and lived out their lives as stars together.
  — Maddie Bender, Scientific American, 2 July 2021
• Their tasting menu changes seasonally, based on both the whims of its progenitor and the land.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Sep. 2022
• The release said the progenitor star that turned into the black hole would have been at least 20 times as massive as the sun and only lived a few million years.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 4 Nov. 2022
• Such a disk would be composed of matter from the progenitor massive star.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 19 Sep. 2018
• No one can accuse this film of not being true to the spirit of its progenitor, which again will be a big plus for nostalgists.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 July 2024
• The Lyrids Meteor Shower has been known to humans for at least 2,700 years, yet not much is known about its progenitor comet.
  — George Dvorsky / Gizmodo, Quartz, 16 Apr. 2024
• One band was so enraptured with the song and its progenitor that its members named their group after the legendary cut.
  — Contributing Writer, NOLA.com, 3 Nov. 2017
• Usually, there’s some moment in these kinds of films that functions as a nod to its progenitor.
  — Ash Parrish, The Verge, 30 Aug. 2024
• Twisters might be in the mold of a good, old-fashioned summer blockbuster, but a note from the progenitor of the summer blockbuster saved it from being too old-fashioned.
  — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 22 July 2024
• His design would measure the spectrum and shape of the initial Cherenkov flash and thus the energy of the progenitor antineutrinos from the positrons.
  — Jesse Emspak, Scientific American, 1 May 2017
• As the progenitor stars to die, the other star in the system with siphon a whole bunch of material off of the progenitor to keep for itself.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 7 Mar. 2023
• Walter Pater, the progenitor of art for art’s sake, said all art aspires to the condition of music.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2023
• The team decided to target hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs), stem cells found in bone marrow that give rise to a range of blood cells.
  — Bymitch Leslie, science.org, 21 Dec. 2022
• Then progenitor and offspring burst out of the cell, enter neighboring red blood cells and the process continues.
  — New York Times, 26 Aug. 2021
• Finding such a pattern reveals important clues as to what could [be] the progenitor of FRBs.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 8 June 2020
• Best known as the leader and electric bassist of the psychedelic rock band Pink Floyd, Waters, now 73, is one of the major progenitors of the concept album.
  — Alexa Peters, The Seattle Times, 21 June 2017
• The researchers induced the cells to form nascent brain tissue—neural progenitor cells—using a cocktail of drugs and proteins.
  — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2020
• The Crab Nebula has a pulsar, indicating that the core of its supernova progenitor was less than 2.8 times the mass of the sun.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
• Birtherism, which attempted to undercut a landmark election in which the turnout rate among Black voters nearly matched that of whites, was a progenitor of the Big Lie.
  — Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024