How to Use biology in a Sentence

biology

noun
  • The whip of Twain’s wit is here, but it’s laid out like slides in a biology class.
    — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 13 May 2025
  • The names moved quickly from the margins of a single book to the center of botany, and then all of biology.
    — Mark Barna, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Here’s a quick brush-up from high school biology class: There are 20 amino acids, and your body can only make 11 of them.
    — Jasmine Gomez, Women's Health, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The professor of biology quelled worries about the overlap area of the two broods.
    — Raven Brunner, Peoplemag, 22 May 2024
  • In retrospect, that's just biology and how the body works.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 22 Oct. 2021
  • The use of test methods based on human biology could cut in half the time to market for new drugs and reduce costs as much as five-fold.
    — Gary Michelson, STAT, 5 Mar. 2022
  • The cat, along with a cresting ocean wave above the streets of Seoul, weren’t biology experiments gone awry.
    — Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Janett is a biology major on a premed track, and Kathy is a nursing major.
    — Arkansas Online, 30 Aug. 2021
  • There are also racial differences in the biology of tumors and the types of breast cancer.
    — Jon Lapook, CBS News, 21 Dec. 2021
  • As a quick biology lesson, this is where the real magic happens for hair growth and health.
    — Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 11 July 2023
  • This should be at the heart of working with biology to design or build anything that humans use.
    — Eben Bayer, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Not everyone is convinced that biology is even the right place to look.
    — Quanta Magazine, 7 Dec. 2021
  • Then, the schools chief, who taught science early in his career, strode inside to briefly take over a biology class.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2022
  • The freshman and his biology classmates were two classrooms down the hall waiting for class to start, Cumbey said.
    — Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 1 Dec. 2021
  • Nature gave us a hint that a whole new world of biology was waiting to be discovered.
    — Steven D. Munger, The Conversation, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Vanessa Streb is a senior from Danielson who majors in biology and competes in the free and breast strokes.
    — courant.com, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Little wonder that the protein folding problem has been something of a holy grail in the field of biology for decades.
    — Rob Toews, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2021
  • Many aspects of the moa biology remain a mystery, the researchers said.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 23 May 2024
  • Caleb was excited to see his friends again, and of his classes is most looking forward to biology and math.
    — Zach Harris, chicagotribune.com, 31 Aug. 2021
  • The class includes an in-hive experience and instruction in the biology and care of bees.
    — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2024
  • In Nazi Germany, the veneer of science and biology was used as a pretense for genocide.
    — Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2024
  • And yet, no precise moment when chemistry gives rise to biology has been found.
    — Joe Spring, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Dec. 2021
  • One man had come from the Czech Republic with a bus, and two biology students had driven their camper van from Slovenia to take refugees back.
    — Denise Hruby, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2022
  • The letter was sent to the biology faculty sometime Friday near the end of business hours.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Aug. 2021
  • The science and the biology that Shipway specializes in can help inform what should happen to preserve the wreck, and others like it.
    — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2022
  • That’s when Cooper King’s grandfather Mark was hired to teach biology and chemistry and coach wrestling and football.
    — Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Fortunately, the current H5N1 pathogen has not yet fine-tuned that side of its biology.
    — New Atlas, 12 Jan. 2025
  • The biology major still sees her doctors for scans and checkups every six months.
    — Wendy Grossman Kantor, People.com, 10 Oct. 2024
  • During the past 10 years medicine has started to take a different approach based on the biology of aging (a field called geroscience).
    — Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
  • From his childhood in Jamaica to his career in marine biology, Harvey has dedicated his life to protecting the sea.
    — Emily Lapointe, Outside Online, 28 Apr. 2025

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