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How to use organism in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Organism means a discrete and complete living thing, such as animal, plant, fungus or microorganism. Example: “The Burgess Shale contains fossils of very odd organisms that lived during the Acadian.”

Examples of organism by meaning

nounA discrete and complete living thing, such as animal, plant, fungus or microorganism.

  • Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene.2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
  • This strategy, known as caloric restriction, has been shown to increase the life span of various organisms and reduce their rate of cancer and other age-related ailments.2019 July 16, Anahad O’Connor, “Cutting 300 Calories a Day Shows Health Benefits”, in The New York Times

More sentences with organism

  • The Burgess Shale contains fossils of very odd organisms that lived during the Acadian.From the entry Acadian
  • The rock surface of a rockpool is the substrate for a sessile organism such as a limpet.From the entry substrate
  • A polythetic taxon is one where the constituent organisms share a large number of characteristics.From the entry polythetic
  • The ability to reproduce is a defining characteristic of living organisms.From the entry defining
  • Multicellular organisms require a homeostatic internal environment in order to live.From the entry homeostatic
  • These insect and mole-rat colonies are multi-organismic equivalents of single organisms.From the entry multi-organismic
  • The eat-outs left by a coypu may disrupt the habitat for other organisms.From the entry eat-out
  • These organisms form scum in large quantities.From the entry scum
  • The organism has reached a crucial stage in its development.From the entry development
  • The organism needs more energy on basal maintenance.From the entry basal
  • The water was full of microscopic organisms.From the entry microscopic
  • The ocean beneath the arctic ice cap hosts many unique organisms adapted to the cold and shortage of light.From the entry ice cap
  • The organism passes through a nonfeeding pupal stage.From the entry nonfeeding
  • Silicon is a quasiessential element for most living organisms.From the entry quasiessential
  • Among immunocompetent organisms, some have higher immunocapability than others, depending on factors such as alleles, diet, and age.From the entry immunocapability
  • (uncountable, by extension) The collection or mass of such outgrowths, filaments, or fibers growing or projecting from the surface of an object or organism.From the entry hair
  • Taxonomy seeks to systematically name all living organisms; each species has one name and everyone can figure out what that name is.From the entry systematically
  • Poikilohydry occurs in such organisms as lichens and bryophytes, which lack mechanisms such as waterproofing cuticles or stomata that can help resist desiccation.From the entry poikilohydry
  • Every cell in this organism contains a copy of each gene, but whether that copy will be expressed depends on complex factors of cell differentiation and epigenetics.From the entry copy
  • Trivial names such as "worm", "shrimp", "fish", "toad", "cobra", "vulture", and "mahogany", though convenient and popular, do not refer to any systematically-defined biological groupings of organisms.From the entry trivial name
  • Ants are integral components of terrestrial ecosystems, owing to their manifold interactions with other organisms.2022 September 19, Schultheiss et al., “The abundance, biomass, and distribution of ants on Earth”, in Proceedings of the National Academy…. From the entry myrmecophile
  • Lichens are 'extremophiles', organisms able to live, from our point of view, in other worlds.2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 95. From the entry extremophile
  • It is one of the features that make them an ideal model organism, amenable to microscopy.2020, Brandon Taylor, Real Life, Daunt Books Originals, page 88. From the entry microscopy
  • Settling in the hindgut of crustaceans by these organisms is possible only during the intermolt period.2018, L.V. Pavlova, “First Finding of Representatives of the Eccrinida Order in the Digestive Tract of King Crab Specie from the Barents…. From the entry intermolt
  • In bodyfulness, the psychosomatic organism becomes calmly alert without the intentionality of the conscious mind.2017, Jorge N. Ferrer, Participation and the Mystery: Transpersonal Essays in Psychology, Education, and Religion, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page…. From the entry bodyfulness
  • Many organisms possessed several molybdoenzyme families and several subfamilies within these families.2016, Valeria Culotta, Metals in Cells, page 26. From the entry molybdoenzyme
  • Histidine was extensively degraded by rumen micro‐organisms, while tyrosine was the most anti‐degradable AA among the samples.2016, W Gao, B Zhang, B Lv, C Liu, D Chen, “Ruminal degradability and intestinal digestibility of individual amino acids in mixed diets…. From the entry anti-degradable
  • Choanoflagellates and filasterea are considered the closest unicellular organisms to metazoan animals.2015 August 7, “The Evolution of the Secreted Regulatory Protein Progranulin”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry filasterea
  • Organisms have developed all sorts of ways of dealing with these variations.2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, chapter 8, in The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Henry Holt and Company. From the entry hibernate
  • The limitations of eutelic organisms illustrate the merits of the normal plan of reproduction by cell division.2014, Jean Brachet, Alfred E. Mirsky, Meiosis and Mitosis: Biochemistry, Physiology, Morphology. From the entry eutelic
  • Extremophilic organisms may be located in all the three dominia and include prokaryotic and Eukaryotic cells.2013, Sara Carillo, phD Thesis in Chemical Sciences: XXV cycle: Extremophile bacteria glycolipids: structure and biological activity…. From the entry dominium
  • In multicellular organisms, groups of cells form tissues and tissues come together to form organs.2011, Terence Allen, Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 3. From the entry cell
  • However, phylogenetic trees describe the relatedness between living organisms (and their classification) rather than ancestry.2011, Jacques Pepin, “The Source”, in The Origins of AIDS, 1st edition, →ISBN, page 22. From the entry phylogenetic tree
  • They measure the genetic distance between organisms, and identify the nearest relatives.2011, Jacques Pepin, “The Source”, in The Origins of AIDS, 1st edition, →ISBN, page 22. From the entry phylogenetic tree
  • The abundance of dead and decaying animals turns the traps into attractive habits for different organisms.2011, Janek von Byern, Ingo Grunwald, editors, Biological Adhesive Systems, Springer Science & Business Media, page 24. From the entry protocarnivorous
  • In weeks, a single hematopoietic stem cell can replenish the entire human organism with new blood.2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 458. From the entry hematopoietic
  • It is locked up in the viable system created, be it an organism or a social system.2009, J.-C. Spender, “Organizational Knowledge, Collective Practice and Penrose Rents”, in Michael H. Zack, editor, Knowledge and…. From the entry synergy
  • Rose bushes can carry an organism that causes sporotrichosis, a fungal infection.2008 May 26, Anemona Hartocollis, “Health Risks Hiding in the Grass”, in New York Times. From the entry sporotrichosis

Meaning of organism

  1. noun A discrete and complete living thing, such as animal, plant, fungus or microorganism.
  2. noun Something with many separate interdependent parts, seen as being like a living thing; an organic system.
  3. noun The fact of being organic; organicity.

Full definition of organism

Questions about organism in a sentence

How do you use organism in a sentence?
Organism is used as a noun. For example: “The Burgess Shale contains fossils of very odd organisms that lived during the Acadian.”
What is a short sentence with organism?
“The water was full of microscopic organisms.”
What does organism mean?
Organism means a discrete and complete living thing, such as animal, plant, fungus or microorganism.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: organism (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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