How to Use senescence in a Sentence

senescence

noun

• The takes on what this study might say about cell senescence are more mixed.
  — Max G. Levy, WIRED, 12 July 2023
• Alaska trees and shrubs will soon be done with their senescence for 2021.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Sep. 2021
• When trees lived in shade, their fall senescence was delayed by more than a week.
  — Ula Chrobak, Popular Science, 30 Nov. 2020
• Cells that refuse to die can instead enter a phase called senescence.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 23 Mar. 2017
• Researchers are also looking for ways to detect the levels of senescence in the body.
  — Monique Brouillette, Popular Mechanics, 21 Feb. 2023
• An octopus in senescence stays in her den guarding her eggs and may lose more than half her body weight.
  — National Geographic, 13 Oct. 2022
• To Republicans, this is proof of Biden’s senescence; to the press, his lack of transparency.
  — Jason Zengerle, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2022
• They are overtaken by Jones, who, stirred from senescence, thunders down the avenue on a horse, with Nazis on his—and its—tail.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 30 June 2023
• Biden’s senescence wasn’t the only dismaying thing about the debate.
  — The Editors, National Review, 28 June 2024
• Species such as sea anemones and hydras show no signs of senescence, and many researchers believe that aging is not inevitable.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
• Seventeen years beneath the ground, a single mating frenzy in the treetops, then a rapid senescence and death.
  — Washington Post, 26 May 2021
• Over time, as animals age, more and more cells enter senescence, a process that's thought to contribute to aging.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 10 July 2018
• And unless they get arrested and put into jail, they may be doomed to homelessness in their senescence.
  — Jay Newton-Small, Time, 20 Nov. 2019
• Scientists are careful to note that cell senescence can be useful.
  — Laura Ungar, The Enquirer, 31 Aug. 2022
• Their length decreases with aging, and this contributes to cell senescence, meaning the cells can no longer divide.
  — Liz Seegert, Time, 1 June 2021
• There’s no dithering yet—the senescence is almost undetectable.
  — Caitlin Flanagan, The Atlantic, 14 Nov. 2021
• Cell biologist Bill Keyes was working on senescence in embryos back in the early 2000s.
  — Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Dec. 2022
• The issue is that cells in a state of senescence release a steady stream of inflammatory molecules.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• Tests in humans haven't yet begun, and further research into cell senescence and cell death needed.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 23 Mar. 2017
• Rarely before has the senescence of this Senate — which, with an average age of 63, is the oldest in history — been so apparent.
  — Nash Jenkins, Time, 10 Apr. 2018
• Aging, or senescence, is a progressive loss of function and performance with time.
  — Yao-Hua Law, Science | AAAS, 25 Mar. 2021
• The super-old trees’ growth had slowed to a crawl, to be sure, but the cells showed no signs of senescence, which is not quite death but causes cells to stop dividing and eventually results in a loss of function.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 July 2020
• Studies of turtles and lizards have also turned up negative senescence.
  — Hillary Rosner, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2014
• Yet Kalanick’s public persona does not mesh with the notion of a quiet senescence, maybe sprinkled with a few guest lectures before MBA classes.
  — Irv Schenkler, Fortune, 22 June 2017
• The post said Tako had been undergoing a process called senescence, which is a giant pacific octopus's final stage of life.
  — Vic Verbalaitis, The Arizona Republic, 19 Oct. 2022
• The ingredient is said to prevent skin cells from becoming sluggish, which results in dull, tired-looking skin (the fancy word for this phase is senescence).
  — ELLE, 6 Jan. 2022
• Capturing this trait—known as negligible senescence—is the holy grail of aging research.
  — Adrian Woolfson, WSJ, 26 Feb. 2021
• Other articles in the series have touched on cell senescence, bone and muscle maintenance, heart health, DNA damage, and a number of other topics.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2024
• Turning off a key senescence gene also turned off the production of stem cells and tissue regeneration.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 27 July 2023
• Cellular senescence was discovered by Hayflick and Moorhead in 1961.
  — Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes, 1 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 28 Dec 2024