How to Use quark in a Sentence

quark

noun
  • The quarks that constitute them also have very little mass of their own.
    Stanley J. Brodsky, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2024
  • The discovery of quarks, in the late 1960s, was a ground-shaking event in physics.
    Dylan Loeb McClain, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2018
  • The quarks that make up protons have anti-quarks, and so on.
    Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • So then, are quarks and gluons the smallest things in the universe?
    Nandita Jayaraj, Quartz India, 27 Aug. 2019
  • In the natural world, baryons have at most one heavy quark.
    Seth Borenstein, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 July 2017
  • Then in 1990, Steven Weinberg found a way to connect the world of quarks and gluons to sticky nuclei.
    WIRED, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Clock Shadow Creamery used to mix it with their soft style quark.
    Kristine M. Kierzek, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 June 2021
  • Then came the Hadron epoch, when the first protons and neutrons formed from quarks, about 1 second after the Big Bang.
    Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 10 Apr. 2017
  • Each proton and neutron is made up of even tinier quarks and gluons.
    Nandita Jayaraj, Quartz India, 27 Aug. 2019
  • The Tevatron discovered the top quark, the Bc meson, and the tau neutrino.
    Daniel Holz, Discover Magazine, 30 Sep. 2011
  • Fermions make up all the matter in the Universe and include leptons and quarks.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 24 Mar. 2023
  • But what about an ant or a tree— or more radically, atoms and quarks?
    WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023
  • In ordinary matter, quarks come in two types, up and down.
    Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 5 June 2019
  • Physicists have found hundreds of particles made of quarks over the years.
    Sylvia Morrow, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2018
  • The two bottom quarks decay into two jets of particles, as do the up and down quarks.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 31 July 2019
  • The wonderful dip, creamy with a dairy product called quark, was packed with lump crab and more of those mild fish peppers.
    Suzanne Loudermilk, baltimoresun.com, 12 Sep. 2017
  • But protons are made from the lightest members of the quark family.
    Quanta Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024
  • So, a doubly-charmed baryon is a particle made from two charm quarks and one up quark.
    Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Gluons, the particles of the strong force, connect with two up quarks and one down quark to create a proton.
    Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Each column is an output: The Higgs might morph into a pair of W bosons, or (more likely) a pair of quarks.
    Quanta Magazine, 23 May 2024
  • At the start of the universe, some believe the quarks floated in a fluid with gluon particles.
    Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 22 Feb. 2023
  • And finally, interactions between the quarks and the gluons produce the rest of the mass.
    Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2023
  • This hot—as in, hotter-than-the sun hot—world held the ingredients of atoms, protons, and neutrons in what is called quarks.
    Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The kaon, a special case of meson particle, is made of one quark and one antiquark.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 6 Mar. 2020
  • There are 12 fields of matter that produce electrons, up quarks, and down quarks—the building blocks of all atoms—and neutrinos.
    Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2023
  • For example, a meson could consist of a red and an antired quark.
    Elizabeth Fernandez, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2021
  • In Germany, quark is thick and smooth like yogurt, but slightly drier.
    New York Times, 26 June 2018
  • First, the movements of the quarks actually produce mass.
    Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2023
  • What surprised the researchers was that the flow of quark-gluon plasma caught the heavy D-zero particles.
    NBC News, 12 June 2017
  • The filling is made with low-fat quark instead of cream cheese and egg foam is added to give it more fluff, plus lemon and vanilla for some extra freshness.
    Marcel Krueger, CNN, 22 Oct. 2021

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'quark.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: