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
• The game of chess doesn’t depend on its physical substrate.
  — Oshan Jarow, Vox, 15 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
• The mycelium is growing and then further down all the substrates mix, sterilizations in our lab to inoculate the substrate.
  — Bon Appétit, 9 Oct. 2024
• Composting worms are usually kept indoors in worm bins filled with a natural substrate, like coconut coir.
  — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024