How to Use microscopic in a Sentence

microscopic

adjective
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  • There is a microscopic crack in the diamond.
  • He recorded every aspect of his trip in microscopic detail.
  • He has a microscopic attention span.
  • At this point, the embryo is a microscopic clump of only 100 cells.
  • That’s still a microscopic drop on the bucket compared to the scale of the world’s CO2 problem.
    — Time, 28 June 2023
  • Amp them up by adding microscopic dots in shades of red and blue.
    — goodhousekeeping.com, 13 May 2023
  • All of the fungi on the WHO’s list are microscopic—still, many of them are deadly.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Oct. 2022
  • All that’s needed at this point is to run it on a strop a few times to straighten that microscopic edge.
    — Jim Cobb, Field & Stream, 3 May 2023
  • Larvae are microscopic and have to attach to a hard surface like a shell to grow.
    — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The market odds of a March rate reduction are now a microscopic 10%, and May has fallen to a 30% chance.
    — Robert Barone, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Though the eggs are microscopic, the authors point out that the eggs produced in a single host in the course of a year weigh roughly the same as two sugar cubes.
    — Jerome Groopman, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Enlarge / Who doesn't thrill to the sight of a microscopic cross-section of a beetle's rectum?
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 27 Dec. 2023
  • In theory, the test is meant to determine whether air has reached the microscopic air sacs inside the lungs.
    — Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Pink Sand Beach is an apt name for the three-mile stretch that gets its signature hue from the microscopic coral insects that wash ashore.
    — Regan Stephens, Travel + Leisure, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Notice the microscopic structure of the granules of sand layered into the acrylic paint.
    — Helmuth Rosales, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Yes, these movies were the ones that introduced us to the microscopic realm that would play a part in the new villain’s ascension to power.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 Dec. 2023
  • All are vulnerable to infection by the same set of microscopic pathogens that live in the soil.
    — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 May 2023
  • And even if your skin doesn’t look like the lunar surface, dry skin is still cracking at the microscopic level.
    — Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The prospects for an upturn in Year 2 are modest, which is better than microscopic.
    — Jon Wilner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The mites themselves are microscopic and don't pose any harm to humans when consumed.
    — Maeghan Dolph, Fox News, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The coronavirus is airborne and spread through aerosols, which are tiny, microscopic droplets.
    — Katia Hetter, CNN, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Krill feed on the microscopic plants and then transport fertilizing nutrients to the ocean floor in the form of waste and their molting shells.
    — Joshua Goodman, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The cap of the mushroom has gills, which will release millions of microscopic spores that float through the air and allow the fungus to propagate itself.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The disease is caused by nematodes, or microscopic roundworms, that are present in buds over the winter.
    — Alysa Guffey, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Marine life ranging from microscopic critters to some of the largest animals in the sea use shipwrecks as homes.
    — Avery Paxton, Discover Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023
  • The tint was caused by microscopic algae that arrived in a recent rainfall.
    — CBS News, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The ocean: salty and containing microscopic bits of plastic.
    — Emma Allen, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2022
  • The microscopic animal helps keep the lake clear by eating tiny particles that make the water cloudy.
    — Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Marks on the wooden boats were consistent with microscopic wear patterns on the adzes’ surfaces.
    — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Hardy, microscopic animals seem to be the only ones that can survive a thousand-year freeze.
    — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 27 Dec. 2023

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