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How to use extrude in a sentence

11 example sentences · verb

Extrude means to push or thrust out. Example: “Fire salamanders, which are common on forested hillsides in southern and central Europe, extrude secretions onto their skin containing a neurotoxic alkaloid, Samandarin, when they think they are under attack.”

Examples of extrude by meaning

verbTo push or thrust out.

  • Fire salamanders, which are common on forested hillsides in southern and central Europe, extrude secretions onto their skin containing a neurotoxic alkaloid, Samandarin, when they think they are under attack.2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 6
  • When a printer is extruding and has open spaces in a layer, printers pull the filament back so that stringing does not occur.2015, Joan Horvath, Rich Cameron, 3D Printing with MatterControl, page 153
  • Researchers at the University of Warwick have created conductive polycaprolactone (PCL)-based filament by mixing carbon black into melted plastic before it's extruded as filament; they call the result carbomorph.2017, Richard Horne, 3D Printing For Dummies

More sentences with extrude

  • The Company produces dough products which are extruded from a machine called a votator.1985, Labor Arbitration Information System, volume 2, page 303. From the entry votator
  • Seal out winter winds or enjoy summer breezes with this pre-hung extruded aluminum combination door.1970, Montgomery Ward catalog, page 1152. From the entry pre-hung
  • He remains in amplexation until the female extrudes the eggs, when he immediately sheds the sperm over them.1928, Herbert Eugene Walter, Biology of the Vertebrates: A Comparative Study of Man and His Animal Allies, page 443. From the entry amplexation
  • He conjectured that the eggs are extruded into this, fertilized by the male, and then taken into his mouth.1918, E. W. Gudger, “Oral Gestation in the Gaff-Topsail Catfish, Felichthys felis”, in Papers from the Department of Marine Biology of the…. From the entry mouthbrooder
  • Senate — ever ready, as pundits are, to take one good story and extrude it into a national trend portentous with meaning.2010 January 27, Garrison Keillor, “Recombobulate America”, in The New York Times. From the entry chatfest
  • Banded molars can be rotated, moved buccally and lingually, extruded on one side, and intruded on the other side in ways that are not desired.2010, Robert N. Staley, Neil T. Reske, Essentials of Orthodontics: Diagnosis and Treatment, →ISBN, page 86. From the entry buccally
  • The 12 submarine eruptions from Kick 'em Jenny are believed to have been dominantly explosive, although in at least one case a lava dome was extruded.2009, Rosemary G. Gillespie, Encyclopedia of Islands, page 34. From the entry Kick 'em Jenny
  • In a basic spunbonding system, sheets of synthetic filaments are extruded from polymer onto a conveyor as a randomly oriented web in the closest approximation to a continuous polymer-to-fabric operation.2010, R Chapman, Applications of Nonwovens in Technical Textiles, page 8. From the entry spunbonding

Meaning of extrude

  1. verb To push or thrust out.
  2. verb To form or shape (a metal, plastic etc.) by forcing it through a die or an opening.
  3. verb To expel; to drive off.

Full definition of extrude

Questions about extrude in a sentence

How do you use extrude in a sentence?
Extrude is used as a verb. For example: “Fire salamanders, which are common on forested hillsides in southern and central Europe, extrude secretions onto their skin containing a neurotoxic alkaloid, Samandarin, when they think they are under attack.”
What is a short sentence with extrude?
“The Company produces dough products which are extruded from a machine called a votator.”
What does extrude mean?
Extrude means to push or thrust out.

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