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How to use mutant in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, adjective

Mutant means that which has mutated, with one or more new characteristics from a mutation. Example: “Your neighbor seems to be a mutant; he’s so cringy!”

Examples of mutant by meaning

nounThat which has mutated, with one or more new characteristics from a mutation.

  • Furthermore, it is possible that there occasionally arises what may be called a mutant of very desirable character from a eugenic point of view.1918, Paul Popenoe, Roswell Hill Johnson, Applied Eugenics
  • Am I some sort of a mutant?1953, E. Everett Evans, Man of Many Minds

nounSomeone or something that seems strange, abnormal, or bizarre.

  • Your neighbor seems to be a mutant; he’s so cringy!
  • She could really get to like this relationship with Raven, if it weren't for the fact that he's a homicidal mutant.1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 364

adjectiveOf, relating to, undergoing (i.e. mutating), or resulting from change or mutation; that has undergone mutation.

  • Scientists have created a mutant enzyme that breaks down plastic drinks bottles—by accident.2018 April 16, Damian Carrington, “Scientists accidentally create mutant enzyme that eats plastic bottles”, in The Guardian
  • Researchers at the SSI found that antibodies from people who recovered from coronavirus were less effective at neutralising the mutant strain, but have not made details of their experiments public.2020 November 8, Ian Sample, “UK scientists seek mutant Covid samples from Danish mink farms”, in The Guardian

adjectiveStrange, abnormal, or bizarre.

  • Your mutant brother just growled at me again!
  • Boris Johnson got an angry response after telling school pupils that the exam results crisis was caused by a “mutant algorithm” and he was glad it had been “sorted out”.2020 August 26, Heather Stewart, quoting Boris Johnson, “Boris Johnson blames ‘mutant algorithm’ for exams fiasco”, in The Guardian

More sentences with mutant

  • Mutant Chickens from Mars has great graphics, but the playability is lacking.From the entry playability
  • The mutant strain exhibited reduced osmosensitivity.From the entry osmosensitivity
  • Scientists, having a normal one, created mutant toxic fruit flies using CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing.[2019 October 2, Maddie Bender, “Scientists Edited Fruit Fly Genes to Give Them Butterflies' Toxic Abilities”, in VICE, archived from the…. From the entry have a normal one
  • Mutant phages were then tested for the ability to lysogenize their host bacterium.2015 July 6, “Structure and Assembly of TP901-1 Virion Unveiled by Mutagenesis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry lysogenize
  • Such mutants that cannot heptamerize have been shown to be more effective antigens.2015 July 25, “Immunization with a Recombinant, Pseudomonas fluorescens -Expressed, Mutant Form of Bacillus anthracis -Derived Protective…. From the entry heptamerize
  • An inspecific action resulting in the reduced seed production of the mutant.2012, W. Gottschalk, G. Wolff, Induced Mutations in Plant Breeding, →ISBN, page 21. From the entry inspecific
  • Mutants can then cooperate with those who share the secret handshake and defect against the others.2012, Jan van Eijck, Rineke Verbrugge, Games, Actions, and Social Software: Multidisciplinary Aspects, page 176. From the entry secret handshake
  • Three-dimensional models were built and showed electrostatic potential modification in the mutant receptor.2009 August, M. Peterschmitt, F. Grain, B. Arnaud, G Deléage, V. Lambert, “Mutation in the melanocortin 1 receptor is associated with…. From the entry NFC
  • Double-amber mutants are made by crossing single-amber mutants with each other.2007, Jonathan C. Kuhn, “Detection of Salmonella by Bacteriophage Felix 01”, in Salmonella: Methods and Protocols, pages 27–28. From the entry amber
  • In this mutant, the modified gene is expressed as an alteration of the muscle tissue.1999, Aloi, Jane Elizabeth, Student study guide to accompany general zoology. From the entry unc
  • Lonely atrium mutants, for example, have no distinguishable ventricles, and overlooped embryos have abnormally positioned heart chambers.1997, The Journal of NIH Research, page 5. From the entry overloop
  • He breaks the bad news with a sweet paternal touch and enrols the orphan in his Hogwartsian school for precocious mutants.2019 June 7, Matthew Norman, “Let’s hope this phoenix never rises from the ashes”, in Evening Standard, page 28. From the entry Hogwartsian
  • I think that there are two readings of "Magnetoism" -- 1) power-based mutant supremacy and 2) radical mutant militancy.2019 January 16, @MTFIII, Twitter (post), archived from the original on 29 Apr 2026. From the entry Magnetoism
  • We obtained a pyl quattuordecuple mutant and found that it was severely impaired in growth and failed to produce seeds.2018 June 12, Yang Zhao, Zhengjing Zhang, Jinghui Gao, Pengcheng Wang, Tao Hu, Zegang Wang, Yueh-Ju Hou, Yizhen Wan, Wenshan Liu, Shaojun…. From the entry quattuordecuple
  • Washington-esque School For Gifted Youngsters vs. a rogue's gallery of evil mutants, crew cuts, and politicos—has gotten a lot murkier.2016 May 23, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “Apocalypse pits the strengths of the X-Men series against the weaknesses”, in The A.V. Club, archived…. From the entry murky
  • It could be converted into two shunt products (DMAC 5 and aloesaponarin II 6 ) in the actVI-ORF1-deficient mutant strain.2015 July 11, “Functional Characterization of a Ketoreductase-Encoding Gene med -ORF12 Involved in the Formation of a Stereospecific Pyran…. From the entry aloesaponarin
  • Compared to controls, larval EcR mutants were hyposensitive to both thermal (Fig 2A) and mechanical (Fig 3A) stimulation.2015 October 24, “Steroid Receptor Isoform Expression in Drosophila Nociceptor Neurons Is Required for Normal Dendritic Arbor and…. From the entry hyposensitive
  • Auxotrophic mutant strains are readily obtained but they should always be tested for reversion to prototrophism before use.2014, Antoon D. L. Akkermans, Jan Dirk Van Elsas, Frans J. De Bruijn, Molecular Microbial Ecology Manual. From the entry prototrophism
  • Salt tolerance, salt accumulation, and ionic homeostasis in an epidermal bladder-cellless mutant of the common ice plant Mesembryanthemum crystallinum.2011 May 10, Plant Responses to Drought and Salinity stress: Developments in a Post-Genomic Era, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 187. From the entry cellless
  • So most of them are of no practical value since mutants are unable to compete with the wild type.2006, Dr. Sidharth Arora, “Genes and Chromosomes”, in A Treatise on the Management of Potatoes, New Delhi: Laxmi Publications Pvt Limited…. From the entry deletorious
  • He called mutants Homo Superiors to underscore the difference between mutants and the rest of mankind—puny Homo sapiens.2000 August, Walter Mosley, “Extreme Fan”, in Vibe, volume 8, number 6, page 84. From the entry Homo Superiors
  • These included dark coloured flower, light coloured flower, albous flower, pink flower, red flower, small flower, biflorate and triflorate mutants.1998, Society of Cytologists and Geneticists, India, The Journal of Cytology and Genetics, Volume 33. From the entry albous
  • Structural basis for oncogenicity of Gly 12 mutants.1997 July 18, Klaus Scheffzek et al., “The Ras-RasGAP Complex: Structural Basis for GTPase Activation and Its Loss in Oncogenic Ras…. From the entry oncogenicity
  • Nor will they have the donut peach, a trendy, mutant fruit grown in California and sold at SoHo's Gourmet Garage.1994 December 19, New York Magazine, volume 27, number 50, page 83. From the entry donut peach
  • The wg- mutant can be phenocopied by injecting antisense RNA (complementary to the 3 kb wg+ transcript) into wild-type embryos.1990, David de Pomerai, From Gene to Animal, →ISBN, page 275. From the entry phenocopy
  • When the Shyr mutant was grown on this cloudly medium, there was a clear zone surrounding the colonies.1987, American Society for Microbiology, Applied and environmental microbiology. From the entry cloudly
  • Oscar was one of God’s own prototypes—a high-powered mutant of some kind who was never even considered for mass production.1977 December 15, Hunter S. Thompson, “The Banshee Screams For Buffalo Meat”, in Rolling Stone, number 254, page 59. From the entry God's own
  • I'm not actually a mutant hater.2026 March 20, @BigmanH24, X (post), archived from the original on 08 May 2026. From the entry X-sona
  • In contrast, inhibitory neuromodulatory influences exerted by the pons on respiratory rhythmogenesis are stronger in the mutant, thereby explaining the breathing anomalies observed in vivo.2018 October 4, Christophe J. Dubois, Laura Cardoit, Veronika Schwarz, Marika Markkanen, Matti S. Airaksinen, Pavel Uvarov, John Simmers…. From the entry rhythmogenesis
  • To assess the cell wall properties, the effect of isoxaben, an inhibitor of cellulose synthase, on fei1fei2, galt2galt5, sos5, and the quintuple mutant was examined.2016 January 6, “Glycosylation of a Fasciclin-Like Arabinogalactan-Protein (SOS5) Mediates Root Growth and Seed Mucilage Adherence via a…. From the entry isoxaben
  • Importantly, overexpression of WASP in trc mutants and transheterozygotes of trc and Tsc2 (which also show synaptic overgrowth) suppressed their synaptic overgrowth phenotypes.2015 September 23, “Tricornered Kinase Regulates Synapse Development by Regulating the Levels of Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome Protein”, in…. From the entry transheterozygotes
  • Here, we introduce an Mtb-selective protein labeling method based on genetic incorporation of azidonorleucine (Anl) through the expression of a mutant methionyl-tRNA synthetase.2015 August 25, Ajit G. Chande et al., “Selective enrichment of mycobacterial proteins from infected host macrophages”, in Scientific…. From the entry azidonorleucine

Meaning of mutant

  1. noun That which has mutated, with one or more new characteristics from a mutation.
  2. noun Someone or something that seems strange, abnormal, or bizarre.
  3. noun Synonym of mutex.

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Questions about mutant in a sentence

How do you use mutant in a sentence?
Mutant is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “Your neighbor seems to be a mutant; he’s so cringy!”
What is a short sentence with mutant?
“I'm not actually a mutant hater.”
What does mutant mean?
Mutant means that which has mutated, with one or more new characteristics from a mutation.

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