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How to use flagellate in a sentence

11 example sentences · verb, adjective, noun

Flagellate means to whip or scourge. Example: “The gigantic egg sits, and the frantic and tiny sperm flagellates its tail to cross vast distances on its quest for dissolution in the huge egg.”

Examples of flagellate by meaning

verbTo whip or scourge.

  • Red welts rising from a flagellated back1976 December 11, David Holland, “A Conversation With Maitresse”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 24, page 13

verbOf a spermatozoon, to move its tail back and forth.

  • The gigantic egg sits, and the frantic and tiny sperm flagellates its tail to cross vast distances on its quest for dissolution in the huge egg.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London...

More sentences with flagellate

  • The benthic microflora of marine sands includes bacteria, blue-green bacteria (cyanobacteria), autotrophic flagellates, and diatoms.2017, Anton McLachlan, Omar Defeo, The Ecology of Sandy Shores, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 63. From the entry epipsammon
  • Haploid flagellated spores dominate the life cycle of Chlamydomonas, a single-celled, freshwater chlorophyte (Figure 20.13).2008, Cecie Starr, Christine A. Evers, Lisa Starr, Biology: Concepts & Applications, page 326. From the entry chlorophyte
  • I can think of a few colleagues who flagellate themselves into trash-binning fully adequate text.2005, Mario Rinvolucri, “Unleashing Writing Creativity in Students”, in English Teaching Forum, volume 43, number 3, page 42. From the entry trash-bin
  • There are never any flagellated stages in this group, but always amoebulæ.1915, Annual Report and Transactions, Manchester: Manchester Microscopical Society, page 82. From the entry amebula
  • In comparison to the highly flagellated WT, we observed a primarily deflagellated phenotype (Fig 5A left and middle panels).2015 August 13, “Characterization of Novel Factors Involved in Swimming and Swarming Motility in Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium”…. From the entry deflagellated
  • Unlike for phagotrophic flagellates, bacteria serve as a facultative rather than an obligate food source for crustacean zooplankton.2012, Ulrich Sommer, Plankton Ecology: Succession in Plankton Communities, page 351. From the entry obligate
  • The presence of free-swimming and stalked ciliates, some flagellates, and rotifers in mixed liquor indicates a balanced, properly settling environment.2008, Frank R. Spellman, Handbook of Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant Operations, page 715. From the entry free-swimming
  • Anteriorly there are the flagellated cells, which will later form the choanosome—these are the choanoblasts—and posteriorly there are the future ectomesenchymal cells, or the ectoblasts.1977, Earl D. Hanson, The Origin and Early Evolution of Animals, page 436. From the entry choanoblast
  • Many flagellates had a few forms identical in appearance with Fusiformis hilli adherent by one end to the posterior end of the body.1940, Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, volume 81, page 14. From the entry schizophyte

Meaning of flagellate

  1. verb To whip or scourge.
  2. verb To harshly chide or chastise, to reprimand.
  3. verb Of a spermatozoon, to move its tail back and forth.

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Questions about flagellate in a sentence

How do you use flagellate in a sentence?
Flagellate is used as a verb, adjective and noun. For example: “The gigantic egg sits, and the frantic and tiny sperm flagellates its tail to cross vast distances on its quest for dissolution in the huge egg.”
What is a short sentence with flagellate?
“Red welts rising from a flagellated back”
What does flagellate mean?
Flagellate means to whip or scourge.

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