How to Use microbe in a Sentence

microbe

noun
Definition of microbenext
Synonyms for microbenext
  • These microbes have a strange way of thanking us for the meal.
    — Popular Science, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The health effects are dependent on the genus, species and strain of the microbe.
    — Valerie Agyeman, Good Housekeeping, 22 Nov. 2022
  • As the cheeses age, fuzzy and sometimes sticky layers of microbes form on the surfaces of the cheese.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 10 May 2023
  • And to all of you listeners, the yearning for more microbe.
    — Jeffery Delviscio, Scientific American, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Food waste and manure are mixed together, and the microbes from the manure break down the food.
    — Hannah Nguyen, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Feb. 2023
  • The book describes his two decades of work scouring the world’s oceans for microbes from a 100-foot sailboat.
    — David Ewing Duncan, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2023
  • This suggests that both species acquired the microbe from the same source around the same time—or somehow passed it to each other.
    — Tim Vernimmen, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Some microbes are helpful to the body, while others can be harmful.
    — Andrea Michelson, Verywell Health, 29 Aug. 2023
  • This week Jeff and Jonathan talk about the importance of soil microbes in gardening.
    — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Sep. 2023
  • To learn about the oral health of these people, the researchers compared the microbes found in the resin to modern datasets of both healthy and unhealthy mouth microbiomes.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Jan. 2024
  • On the Martian surface, this hardy microbe could only survive for a few hours.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Oct. 2022
  • This wasn’t the first time a miracle microbe had been found at Yellowstone.
    — Claire Turrell, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Mar. 2024
  • And through a process that’s not very well understood, those microbes can be passed from mother to offspring.
    — Elizabeth Anne Brown, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Just as your body runs on a circadian rhythm, so do your microbes.
    — Jessica Migala, Women's Health, 24 July 2023
  • Time in the sun Before so much as the first microbe existed, there had to be amino acids thought to have formed in one of the primordial oozes of early Earth.
    — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 22 May 2023
  • For instance, are there links between the types of animal life and microbes found within the hollows?
    — Robin George Andrews, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The sole available vaccine was lackluster; the microbe had rapidly evolved resistance to the drugs used to fight it.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2023
  • These microbes, such as bacteria and fungi, also collect on the roots of plants.
    — Journal Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2024
  • From soil microbes to birds of prey, embracing a garden's food chain helps a garden take care of itself.
    — Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 13 Sep. 2023
  • That protein tells the body’s immune cells to seek and destroy invading microbes.
    — Linda Carroll, NBC News, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Today, the benign remains of that microbe are still wedged among a fleet of lemur genes—all that is left of a virus that may have once been as deadly as HIV is today.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 21 Sep. 2022
  • The microbes that cause these illnesses reservoir in mice where they can be picked up by young ticks taking their first bloodmeal.
    — John Sass, Field & Stream, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The microbes were growing on pieces of free-lying plastic or ones that had been intentionally buried in the ground for one year.
    — Molly Enking, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 May 2023
  • What’s more, odor-causing bacteria and microbes are unable to stick onto these wool fibers, so your socks and feet won’t get that nasty, sweaty stink.
    — James Lynch, Popular Mechanics, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The number and type of microbes in your gut may affect gas symptoms, including how odorous your farts are.
    — Karen Pallarito, Health, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The soil food web microbes are responding to the exudates the new blades of grass are manufacturing.
    — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 25 May 2023
  • The search for the first eukaryote has researchers painstakingly coaxing rare microbes from seafloor sludge.
    — Quanta Magazine, 19 Dec. 2023
  • That means that about one quarter of all 1.5 million species known to science (across all animals, plants and microbes) are beetles.
    — Viviane Callier, Scientific American, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Just a single gram of Arctic permafrost can contain hundreds to thousands of microbe groups.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Dec. 2022
  • From there, DeLong and his team watched as one particular microbe called Halteria began to snack on the virus.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 30 Dec. 2022

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