How to Use organism in a Sentence

organism

noun
  • A human being is a complex organism.
  • The organism enters the body through a cut or scrape in the skin.
    — New York Times, 16 Dec. 2020
  • Having the eyes outside the skull orients the organism to the time of day.
    — Jessica Wapner, Scientific American, 16 Nov. 2020
  • This galaxy of organisms makes up the base of the oceanic food web.
    — WIRED, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The largest living organism on Earth is not the blue whale.
    — Tom Shippey, WSJ, 11 Feb. 2022
  • The organism is a fungus that affects the new leaves and fruits.
    — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 26 June 2021
  • The team found the organism in permafrost cores drilled 11.5 feet deep near the Alazeya River in Siberia.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 June 2021
  • No organism on Earth is known to live as long as the Great Basin bristlecone pine.
    — Sarah Kaplan, Anchorage Daily News, 14 July 2022
  • The Imperia speakers made a sound that was wide and vivid and full of dirty weight, the breath of an organism.
    — Sasha Frere-Jones, Harper’s Magazine , 9 Nov. 2022
  • Almost overnight, a slime mold, fungus-like organism oozes up the stems and leaf blades of turf.
    — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 17 July 2021
  • The presence of the organism — thought to be a sea snail — kept the 14-deck Viking Orion adrift 16 miles off the coast of Adelaide, Australia.
    — Natasha Frost, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2023
  • Crispr can make precise cuts to the genomes of pretty much any organism on the planet.
    — Megan Molteni, Wired, 28 Dec. 2020
  • In other words, the Rangers are poised to flood the zone with arms, which really is the best approach to an organism like the bullpen.
    — Dallas News, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Glowing organisms, like the ones observed in the video, are most commonly found in the ocean.
    — Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2023
  • After sinking to the canal bed, the organisms begin to digest sludge—up to 10 square feet or more of the stuff per ball.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Nov. 2024
  • The catch was that introners were only known to exist in a few organisms.
    — Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
  • These are cells that can grow and live outside of a living organism so they can be kept in a petri dish or a flask.
    — Eva Amsen, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Yet, on the species level, an organism might not need to survive to be reborn.
    — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Image in the Age of A.I. Like a living organism, the project has morphed and evolved alongside its founders.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 30 Nov. 2023
  • In this view, the moss shifts from organism to ecosystem, with weather that shapes what can and cannot survive in it.
    — Deboki Chakravarti, Scientific American, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Among the most vulnerable organisms to this change are the world’s corals.
    — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Either way, the strength of the germline signal regulates the organism’s life span, Dillin said.
    — Quanta Magazine, 8 Jan. 2024
  • To further test the hypothesis that the organism was eating the virus, the researchers added dye to the chlorovirus DNA.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 30 Dec. 2022
  • But if a major organ like the brain gets damaged, the whole organism fails.
    — Max Norman, Outside Online, 13 Apr. 2021
  • Watch this video to see a few organisms invisible to the naked eye.
    — Alexandra Banner, CNN, 20 Sep. 2024
  • So mycelium is the organism that mushrooms grow from and the substrate is their food and habitat.
    — Bon Appétit, 9 Oct. 2024
  • The egg and each polar body each contain half of the complement of genes needed to make a new organism.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 18 Feb. 2024
  • This is the organism’s source code, durable and redundant.
    — Christof Koch, Scientific American, 6 Oct. 2021
  • The chat is a living organism, the centerpiece of a good streamer’s channel.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 8 May 2025
  • Marine organisms like horn sharks, dolphins and sea lions prey on them.
    — Jules Jacobs, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 May 2025

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