How to Use ultrathin in a Sentence

ultrathin

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• These chips will be meant for ultrathin laptops and range from 35 to 45 watts.
  — PCMAG, 5 Jan. 2023
• The other was connected to the ultrathin gold ribbons and the e-tattoo.
  — Adithi Ramakrishnan, Dallas News, 16 Mar. 2023
• The stretchy polyester fabric is ultrathin and comfortable but cuts the chill just enough on cold mornings.
  — The Editors, Outside Online, 4 Mar. 2021
• This new episode documents the construction of an ultrathin skyscraper in New York.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2021
• The cells are the green squares and include an ultrathin layer of light-absorbing GaAs, which is key to their radiation tolerance.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 10 Nov. 2022
• Those clumps were then injected into rat brains and after three months, the scientists threaded ultrathin fiber-optic cables into the rat brains so the researchers could beam in blue light.
  — Mark Johnson, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2022
• Despite its ultrathin exterior, we were kept pleasantly warm through the cold temps.
  — Alyssa Brascia, Peoplemag, 22 June 2023
• This device delivers a particularly close shave for an electric razor, thanks to its three blades and ultrathin foil (the layer of metal mesh that covers the blades).
  — Abbie Kozolchyk, wsj.com, 12 Sep. 2023
• To boost the energy supply, an ultrathin solar cell was created and planted on the cockroach’s abdomen to overcome this issue.
  — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Ars Technica, 14 Oct. 2022
• The product is an ultrathin, absorbent liner designed to protect against period leaks.
  — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2023
• Hopkins’ team discovered that blasting an ultrathin layer of carbon and water molecules on the plate’s surface is what caused the initial thermal drop.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 2 Sep. 2023
• Instead of capturing bats with ultrathin nets or special traps (don’t worry, they don’t get hurt), Feller and many of his colleagues across the country are counting them remotely with acoustic devices that record their sonar calls.
  — Eric Niiler, Wired, 1 July 2021
• During the last ready-to-wear season in September, Ms. van Houtte said, more than half of all fashion week shows still had no models who weren’t a dress size 0 or 2, perhaps not coincidentally at a time when ultrathin bodies appear to be back.
  — Elizabeth Paton, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2023
• Jacob Sagiv made a giant step forward in this field of research by discovering a way to transform a solid surface with an ultrathin layer of molecules.
  — Scientific American Custom Media, Scientific American, 29 July 2022
• Unfortunately, that ultrathin design also meant the keys were prone to breaking or just not typing properly.
  — Wired, 20 July 2022
• With an ultrathin design that can effortlessly slide into a backpack, low-profile keys, and a slick brushed aluminum chassis, the G915 TKL is the ultimate compact wireless gaming keyboard.
  — Hunter Fenollol, Popular Mechanics, 18 Aug. 2021
• The Australian team uses ultrathin needles to inject embryos of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, the main carrier of the dengue virus, with the Wolbachia bacterium, an innocuous microbe present in 70 percent of all insect species.
  — Linda Marsa, Discover Magazine, 4 Jan. 2012
• In 2016, the Northwestern team discovered the source of the problem: an ultrathin skin of tin oxide was forming around individual grains of polycrystalline tin selenide before they were pressed into ingots.
  — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 2 Aug. 2021
• The detector is essentially a pendulum—a molybdenum ring hanging on an ultrathin tungsten fiber—that feels the gravitational tug of two rotating molybdenum disks below.
  — Steve Nadis, Discover Magazine, 26 July 2012
• In another advance for biological electronics, researchers have developed a transparent ultrathin circuit flexible enough to wrap around a single human hair and still function.
  — Becky Lang, Discover Magazine, 7 Jan. 2014
• To get around this, Livingston and his colleagues turned to an industrial approach for making ultrathin water desalination membranes called interfacial polymerization.
  — Byrobert F. Service, science.org, 30 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 18 Sep 2024