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How to use secrete in a sentence

17 example sentences · adjective, verb

Secrete means separated; discrete. Example: “Many tumors secrete two or more different hormones.”

Examples of secrete by meaning

verbTo extract a substance from blood, sap, or similar to produce and emit waste for excretion or for the fulfilling of a...

  • Many tumors secrete two or more different hormones.2008, Stephen J. McPhee, Maxine A. Papadakis, et al., Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment, McGraw-Hill Medical, page 1202

verbTo conceal.

  • Families secreted mad uncles and strange cousins in asylums.1997, Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, Totem Books, Icon Books, →ISBN, page 43

More sentences with secrete

  • An endocrine gland is one that secretes its products directly into the bloodstream.2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 166. From the entry endocrine gland
  • Such microorganisms secrete mucilaginous polysaccharide sheaths that bind soil particles more tightly.2015 July 25, “Response of Surface Soil Hydrology to the Micro-Pattern of Bio-Crust in a Dry-Land Loess Environment, China”, in PLOS ONE…. From the entry microphytic
  • Instead, she secretes a narcotic fluid which is designed to keep her pouchlings dormant.2011, Arinn Dembo, The Deacon's Tale, page 301. From the entry pouchling
  • Rain will wash away the flocculence, but nymphs will soon secrete more.2003 August, “a psyllid – Boreioglycaspis melaleucae Moore”, in Featured Creatures, University of Florida Department of Entomology &…. From the entry flocculence
  • The Sender cell contains the entire agr operon (P2-agrBDCA) and can thus both secrete and sense AIP, the autoinducing peptide.2015 July 22, “A Synthetic Quorum Sensing System Reveals a Potential Private Benefit for Public Good Production in a Biofilm”, in PLOS…. From the entry autoinducing
  • Animals expressing the sGFP control protein efficiently secrete GFP out of the intestine (int) into the pseudocelomic space (A, asterisks).2015 October 30, “Deficient and Null Variants of SERPINA1 Are Proteotoxic in a Caenorhabditis elegans Model of α1-Antitrypsin Deficiency”…. From the entry pseudocelomic
  • Faeders, male ruffs that mimic females in plumage and "sneak" copulations at leks, secrete monoesters like other males.2007, Jeroen Willem Hendrik Reneerkens, Functional aspects of seasonal variation in preen wax composition of sandpipers (Scolopacidae)…. From the entry faeder
  • Nerve terminals buried deep in the tissue of the heart secrete their noradrenalin, and the heart lurches into accelerated pumping.1997, Ian McEwan, Enduring Love, Vintage (1998), page 51. From the entry noradrenalin
  • Older women who no longer menstruate, excited by the younger women's caresses, secrete enough cyprine to paint their bodies.1977, Heresies - Volume 1, Issues 1-4, page 98. From the entry cyprine
  • He secretes himself under the house, directly beneath the patient.1967–1968, Richard Lieban, quoted in John P. McAndrew, People of Power: A Philippine Worldview of Spirit Encounters, Ateneo de Manila…. From the entry secretes
  • In pursuance of this scheme it was his custom to announce that he was going and then secrete himself.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries. From the entry pursuance
  • A long olive-grove secretes the garden from the sea.1911 October 26, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford Love Story, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company…. From the entry bosky
  • However, its nymphs (immatures) are easy to detect from the copious amounts of waxy flocculence (white fluff) that they secrete onto melaleuca leaves and stems.2010, The Areawide Management Evaluation of Melaleuca quinquenervia, “Natural Enemies of Melaleuca”, in TAME Melaleuca, archived from the…. From the entry flocculence
  • Merocrine cells have several full secretion cycles — the merocrine secretion cell does not die when it secretes into the lumen of the gland.1982, Vladimir Evgenʹevich Sokolov, Mammal Skin, University of California Press, page 20. From the entry merocrine
  • Your stomach secretes ghrelin in pulses every half hour, sending subtle chemical impulses to your brain—almost like subliminal biological messages (carrot cake, carrot cake, carrot cake).2006, Michael F[redric] Roizen; Mehmet C[engiz] Oz; with Ted Spiker, Lisa Oz, and Craig Wynett, You, on a Diet: The Owner’s Manual for…. From the entry ghrelin

Meaning of secrete

  1. adjective Separated; discrete.
  2. verb To extract a substance from blood, sap, or similar to produce and emit waste for excretion or for the fulfilling of a physiological function.
  3. verb To exude or yield.

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Questions about secrete in a sentence

How do you use secrete in a sentence?
Secrete is used as an adjective and verb. For example: “Many tumors secrete two or more different hormones.”
What is a short sentence with secrete?
“Many tumors secrete two or more different hormones.”
What does secrete mean?
Secrete means separated; discrete.

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