How to Use substrate in a Sentence

substrate

noun

• Bore all the way through the substrate to which the tile is mounted.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 6 Mar. 2013
• The greens are planted in a substrate—not a speck of soil is in sight.
  — The Economist, 4 July 2020
• The key to this method is that the veins come into good contact with the substrate.
  — Molly Marquand, Good Housekeeping, 14 Dec. 2017
• While on the gel substrate, the tardigrades moved half their body lengths at a time.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Sep. 2021
• According to Behr Pro, dark paint tends to absorb the heat of the sun and transfer it to the substrate.
  — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Oct. 2023
• A crevasse is a deep fracture within glaciers, formed through stresses in the substrate of the ice.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 12 May 2017
• Use a razor to gently check that the veneer isn't loose from the substrate.
  — Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 3 Mar. 2021
• But in the US by the close of the 1940s, oil had replaced both biomass and coal as the substrate for making the stuff of everyday life.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2017
• And in the days following a rainstorm, Shultz says the crawlers create a sort of wake in the rocky substrate in front of them.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 17 Mar. 2022
• So, the first thing to consider is what to use as a basic substrate.
  — Jeff Lowenfels | Alaska Gardening and Growing, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Feb. 2023
• Don’t let water penetrate the seams, which can cause the substrate to swell.
  — oregonlive, 20 Mar. 2020
• Spray Paint 101 Start Clean Dirt, dust, wax, and oil all form a barrier between the paint and the substrate.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 26 June 2023
• The same thing can happen with 3D and 4D printing if the print nozzle is too far from the printing substrate.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 Nov. 2023
• The fungus envelops the substrate and forms a hard, lightweight panel, and a white sheet of mycelium—the leather—grows on top of it.
  — Byian Mount, Fortune, 15 Nov. 2022
• While soil can be a substrate, many mushroom types grow where plants cannot: in wood, straw, coir and manure.
  — Robert Johnson, Rolling Stone, 18 Dec. 2023
• The cells are fixed to a flexible substrate and topped with a hardened glass that’ll withstand hail.
  — Tim De Chant, Ars Technica, 4 Jan. 2022
• This size is easy to handle while giving the mushrooms enough substrate.
  — Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 July 2024
• Some debris and substrate rubble would remain in the crater.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 24 June 2021
• The footage reveals that the fish uses its hind fins to push its body up from the substrate and propel itself forward.
  — Scientific American, 12 Dec. 2011
• The artificial reef serves as the hard substrate oysters need to thrive.
  — Scott Dance, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2017
• Again, this doesn’t provide an answer to the substrate debate.
  — Oshan Jarow, Vox, 15 June 2024
• The wriggle phase lasts until the burrowing hagfish pops its head out of the substrate.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 20 June 2024
• Intel notes the warping risk grows as more silicon is placed on the substrate.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 18 Sep. 2023
• The substrate is polyimide, a kind of plastic, rather than a silicon wafer.
  — Gregory Barber, Wired, 21 July 2021
• The second is the printing bot, which applies these inks in a grid onto a single substrate.
  — Dina Genkina, Ars Technica, 24 Aug. 2023
• Now, the whale has become hard substrate, where suspension feeders like anemones and sponges can latch on and grow.
  — Popsci Staff, Popular Science, 10 May 2023
• Those interiors sit on a substrate, are in an enclosure, and maybe have a heat sink on the top.
  — Zenger News, Forbes, 29 June 2021
• But in the new system, the microchannels are carved within the substrate and positioned to line up exactly with the parts of the chip that tend to heat up the most.
  — Mariana Lenharo, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2020
• One type of cell in the gland secretes a luciferase enzyme, while a second type of cell secretes the substrate vargulin.
  — Quanta Magazine, 16 Aug. 2021
• Solid Vinyl − this wallpaper consists of a vinyl film laminated to a fabric or paper substrate.
  — Randy Tucker, The Enquirer, 7 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024