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How to use clone in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Clone means a living organism (originally a plant) produced asexually from a single ancestor, to which it is genetically identical. Example: “This new species is a clone of the mimosa plant.”

Examples of clone by meaning

nounA living organism (originally a plant) produced asexually from a single ancestor, to which it is genetically identical.

  • This new species is a clone of the mimosa plant.

nounA copy or imitation of something already existing, especially when designed to simulate it.

  • The computer manufacturer produced IBM PC clones in the 1990s.

nounA person who is exactly like or very similar to another person, in terms of looks or behavior.

  • Their ringleader took one glance at my new Aeropostale T-shirt and whispered to her clones, “Yeah, Aero's definitely out now.”2017, Allyson Kennedy, Can't Beat the Heart of a Carolina Girl

nounA Castro clone.

  • Some of me is clone, but a good part of me is still disco.1984 August 11, Martin, “Untitled cartoon (caption)”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 5, page 7

verbTo create a clone of.

  • The scientists were able to clone a sheep.
  • We cloned the database to perform some testing.

More sentences with clone

  • Some countries are more prohibitive than others when it comes to hot topics like euthanasia and cloning.From the entry prohibitive
  • Canada may put a moratorium on cloning for research.From the entry moratorium
  • There is a lack of legislation about human cloning.From the entry legislation
  • Many religious leaders oppose cloning humans.From the entry oppose
  • 'An intimate photo has been posted on your cloned Facebook page,' says Greg.2021 July 28, Ruby Speechley, The Face At The Window: A gripping, twisty thriller you won't be able to put down, Hera books Ltd, →ISBN…. From the entry facebook
  • In contrast, isolates from carriers are genetically more heterogenous and relatively few belong to hyperinvasive clones.2015 September 1, “Characterization of Carriage Isolates of Neisseria meningitides in the Adolescents and Young Adults Population of…. From the entry hyperinvasive
  • All great ideas will be cloned and remade sooner or later.2014, Jürgen Brunner, Getting Started with Clickteam Fusion. From the entry jump'n'run
  • A perennial member of the carrot family, canyonlands biscuitroot reproduces by seed and cloning.2013, David Williams, Naturalist's Guide to Canyon Country, page 49. From the entry biscuitroot
  • The timing of budset was the most important factor in determining allocation differences between the clones.2013, Tim D. Davis, Bruce E. Haissig, Biology of Adventitious Root Formation, →ISBN, page 252. From the entry budset
  • Fanfou, Jiwai and Digu were some of the first Twitter clones to become successful in China.2010 March 4, Richard MacManus, “China's Twitter Clones”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Apr 2023…. From the entry Ürümqi
  • The clone soldiers were given basic cognitive advancement via neurolinks while they were still in the tanks.2010, Alex Irvine, Iron Man: Virus, London: Titan Books, →ISBN, page 32. From the entry neurolink
  • Filer appliances also offer programmatic snapshotting and cloning at the block-level or file system-level.2007, David E. Irwin, An Operating System Architecture for Networked Server Infrastructure, page 30. From the entry snapshot
  • Previous studies have examined telomere lengths as an indirect measure of aging in cloned animals.2007, Peter Sutovsky, Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer, page 78. From the entry telomere
  • At Southwest we don't want clones – everyone is expected to colour outside the lines.2007, John Thompson, Bill Bolton, Entrepreneurs, →ISBN, page 185. From the entry colour outside the lines
  • If you knew who Jerry was you'd swear you'd been cloned.2004 April 21, RoyWilliamsIsGay, “Pablo the Troll”, in alt.sports.football.pro.phila-eagles (Usenet). From the entry indecipherable
  • Hybridization of multiple overgoes produces many clones, perhaps 40 clones at a time.2004, Detrich, Westerfield & Zon, The Zebrafish: Genetics, Genomics and Informatics, page 318. From the entry overgo
  • Crusher, using the sample Shinzon provided, confirms that he is a clone of Captain Picard.2003, Larry Nemecek, The Star Trek The Next Generation Companion: Revised Edition, page 349. From the entry picard
  • Find something worth a lot that you can handle, and clone it.2002, Eli the Bearded, “Random questions on mid level play”, in rec.games.roguelike.moria (Usenet). From the entry quylthulg
  • First there was the bad news about cloning, the genetic path to immortality.2002 January 11, Ellen Goodman, “Mind Over Muscle”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry sheephood
  • Dolly the clone has come up with arthritis in her prime sheephood.2002 January 11, Ellen Goodman, “Mind Over Muscle”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry sheephood
  • Biopunks get off on creative genetic engineering, RNA research, cloning, and protein synthesis.2001 August 8, Annalee Newitz, “Biopunk”, in San Francisco Bay Guardian, archived from the original on 20 Dec 2002. From the entry biopunk
  • Where do you think the whole idea of cloning came from?2000 June 18, Guyz N Flyz, “Offended in NC!”, in rec.outdoors.fishing.fly (Usenet), archived from the original on 06 Dec 2025. From the entry incestry
  • He didn't look like my father or my brother, Kath; he was my clone, only older.1997, John Barth, The Tidewater Tales, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 313. From the entry yearsworth
  • In all these groups cloning, where it occurs, must be through polyembryony or parthenogenesis.1989, Roger Neville Hughes, Functional Biology of Clonal Animals, →ISBN, page 90. From the entry polyembryony
  • I'm referring to the clone system, or any kind of system like it.1974 February 2, John Collis, Guy Hocquenghem, Joe Interrante, Mike Riegle, Charley Shively, Raphael Shively, Lionel Soukaz, “The…. From the entry modalize
  • Generations of closely related beetles farm generations of cloned ambrosia fungus.1942, Gina Hamilton, Kingdoms of Life - Fungi (eBook), Lorenz Educational Press, →ISBN. From the entry ambrosia fungus
  • The app's design looks like a clone of Twitter.[2022 August 19, Queenie Wong, “Trump's Truth Social Sees Uptick in Users After FBI's Mar-a-Lago Search”, in CNET, archived from the…. From the entry truth
  • Nowadays it is a cliché to associate silicone women with narco aesthetics, overdrawn Pamela Anderson clones popularized by telenovelas.2020 March 18, Aldona Bialowas Pobutsky, Pablo Escobar and Colombian Narcoculture, University Press of Florida, →ISBN, page 58. From the entry silicone
  • In addition, another gene having the function of flavonol 3- O -galactoside (1 → 4) rhamnosyltransferase remains to be cloned.2015 May 23, Shaokang Di et al., “Linkage mapping, molecular cloning and functional analysis of soybean gene Fg3 encoding flavonol…. From the entry rhamnosyltransferase
  • The positive clone was subjected to three consecutive rounds of single colony isolation on plates of solid medium to ensure homoplasmicity.2015 December 8, “Identification and Structural Analysis of Amino Acid Substitutions that Increase the Stability and Activity of…. From the entry homoplasmicity
  • There was a consistent significant difference in sensitivity to casodex between T14 and T25 clones of early passages.2015 November 12, “Topoisomerase 2 Alpha Cooperates with Androgen Receptor to Contribute to Prostate Cancer Progression”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry casodex
  • You see I haven't been feeling well lately so I sent my orgo clone in to work for me.2014, D. C. Cowan, Fire of Light: Beauty, Loving, Hero, →ISBN. From the entry orgo
  • An individual biscuitroot clump includes many clones.2013, David Williams, Naturalist's Guide to Canyon Country, page 49. From the entry biscuitroot
  • Moreover, distinct bitransitive relations determine distinct minimal clones.2012, Janos Aczel, Aggregating clones, colors, equations, iterates, numbers, and tiles, page 13. From the entry bitransitive

Meaning of clone

  1. noun A living organism (originally a plant) produced asexually from a single ancestor, to which it is genetically identical.
  2. noun A group of identical cells derived from a single cell.
  3. noun A copy or imitation of something already existing, especially when designed to simulate it.

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Questions about clone in a sentence

How do you use clone in a sentence?
Clone is used as a noun and verb. For example: “This new species is a clone of the mimosa plant.”
What is a short sentence with clone?
“Many religious leaders oppose cloning humans.”
What does clone mean?
Clone means a living organism (originally a plant) produced asexually from a single ancestor, to which it is genetically identical.

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