How to Use transpiration in a Sentence

transpiration

noun

• Plants cool air around them through transpiration and their leaves block heat from the sun, as well as absorbing noise.
  — Anna Pujol-Mazzini, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Aug. 2017
• If the lawn grass is brown, there is much less of the movement of water through the plant (transpiration) and the nitrogen is not taken up.
  — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 26 Sep. 2019
• But the government's do not want to do that, but still want to fund public transpiration.
  — George Davis, Baltimore Sun, 18 May 2022
• The stomata, which are minute openings on the underside of rose leaves, cool the plant in a process called transpiration.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2022
• Corn sweat is the release of water from plant leaves into the air, also known as transpiration.
  — Andy Newman, New York Times, 21 July 2016
• The plants that produced the most transpiration were those that were under the fluorescent light.
  — Pioneer Press, chicagotribune.com, 9 Aug. 2017
• Trees also cool the air through transpiration — a process where water vapor is emitted by a tree’s leaves.
  — Kimberly Miller, sun-sentinel.com, 14 Nov. 2019
• In a process called transpiration, plants release water vapor from small pores on the underside of their leaves.
  — Ilima Loomis, Science | AAAS, 4 Aug. 2017
• When something interferes with the plant's transpiration process — as in, when the plant doesn't have enough water to release, the plant undergoes heat stress.
  — London Gibson, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Aug. 2021
• Plants draw water up through their roots and release water vapor into the air through their leaves, a process called transpiration.
  — Antonia Hadjimichael, The Conversation, 10 Nov. 2022
• Some of it is used in photosynthesis, but much of it is lost through evaporation and transpiration through the leaves and stems.
  — Henry Fountain, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2016
• Through a process called transpiration, plants release water vapor from pores along the underside of their leaves.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 29 Dec. 2021
• Wilting is the natural reaction of a plant to heat, when its roots can’t keep up with transpiration in the leaves in high temperatures.
  — Dallas News, 7 July 2022
• The reason for this is that when the atmosphere warms, most leaves cool themselves by releasing water — a process called transpiration.
  — Dorany Pineda, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2023
• Evergreens lose water through their leaves in a process called transpiration.
  — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 13 Nov. 2022
• Its trees discharge water into the atmosphere through their stems, leaves and flowers through a process called transpiration.
  — Gabriela Sá Pessoa and Kasha Patel, Anchorage Daily News, 8 July 2022
• Those include faster melting of snowpack and more evaporation and transpiration, which is water released through the leaves of plants.
  — Carolyn Wilke, sacbee, 19 July 2017
• Filtering the sun helps the soil retain moisture and shield farmworkers from harsh rays, while lower transpiration means less water is needed for crops.
  — Naoki Nitta, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Jan. 2023
• One is to take a light colored or white rose, put it in water containing blue pigment, and watch the rose pull the blue pigment up into the plant, including the flower, as transpiration occurs and the plant takes up water.
  — D. Lawrence Tarazano, Smithsonian, 9 Feb. 2017
• The trees and plants that make up the upper forests have a hierarchy of importance according to their role in the water cycle (transpiration), because water is wealth.
  — Christina Liao, Vogue, 14 Oct. 2017
• Their findings follow a few other studies, including one done during an eclipse over Europe in 1999 that showed changes in sap flow and transpiration in a beech tree near Ghent, Belgium.
  — New York Times, 2 July 2019
• Leaf scorch typically occurs after long periods of dry, windy weather when the roots of a plant are unable to supply water to the foliage at a rate that keeps up with the water lost from the leaves by transpiration.
  — chicagotribune.com, 11 Oct. 2021
• The program is offered free of charge, but families are responsible for students’ transpiration to and from Roseville.
  — Cathy Locke, sacbee, 14 Feb. 2018
• Houseplants release moisture into the air through transpiration, so dry skin and nasal passages are less of a winter weather issue, the magazine asserts.
  — Amy Dewall Dadmun, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 Jan. 2018
• Plants release water into the atmosphere through a process called transpiration.
  — Christina Nunez, National Geographic, 15 May 2019
• This shuts down transpiration and the gaseous exchanges needed for photosynthesis, in which the tree takes in carbon dioxide and releases water and oxygen.
  — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 20 July 2019
• It’s the sum of evaporation and transpiration from plants, and it’s driven by warmer global temperatures, which can be attributed to climate change.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2021
• Irrigate longer in hotter weather and during Santa Ana winds to offset water loss due to transpiration.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Sep. 2021
• That process, called transpiration, creates tension within the tree’s water columns.
  — Thayer Walker, Scientific American, 29 Dec. 2016
• Share [Findings] The decreasing transpiration of plants, a result of rising carbon dioxide levels, was partly to blame for recent heat waves in northern latitudes.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 27 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024