How to Use adenosine triphosphate in a Sentence

adenosine triphosphate

noun
  • This is in the form of a chemical called adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 6 July 2021
  • To step back, the body’s energy source comes from ATP, or adenosine triphosphate.
    — Alexa Mikhail, Flow Space, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Those cells release a molecule known as ATP, for adenosine triphosphate.
    — Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 20 Oct. 2022
  • The basic form of energy our muscles need to function is called adenosine triphosphate, or ATP.
    — Amy Marturana, SELF, 25 Jan. 2018
  • The main source of energy in cells throughout the body isn’t creatine itself, but adenosine triphosphate, or ATP.
    — Matt Fuchs, Time, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Your muscles use a molecule called adenosine triphosphate, or ATP, to power their contractions.
    — Sara Chodosh, Popular Science, 3 Jan. 2019
  • Phosphocreatine is used by your body to make ATP (adenosine triphosphate), which is the main source of energy for your muscles.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Creatine is a substance composed of amino acids that the body converts into the energy source adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
    — Md Published, Verywell Health, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Cells get their energy from molecules such as adenosine triphosphate (ATP), not from some sort of internal housecleaning.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 20 June 2012
  • To power their activities, cells need to produce the molecule adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
    — Mitch Leslie, Science | AAAS, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Yup, creatine can help energize you by boosting adenosine triphosphate (ATP) production inside the body.
    — Addison Aloian, Women's Health, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Hydrogen ions, which are also part of lactic acid, and adenosine triphosphate or ATP, which is actually part of what the muscle uses as fuel.
    — Outside Online, 16 Jan. 2025
  • That's because before the muscles can actually use fatty acids or glucose, both have to be turned into something called adenosine triphosphate or ATP.
    — Outside Online, 17 July 2024
  • More commonly, though, each turn of the wheel assembles a molecule of adenosine triphosphate, or ATP—the energy currency of our cells.
    — James Somers, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2022
  • The digestive tract breaks these foods down into glucose so it can be converted into adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which is the chemical our bodies can use for energy.
    — Daniel Schultz, Ms, SELF, 16 Apr. 2018
  • This reaction uses a combination of oxygen, adenosine triphosphate (ATP), and compounds called luciferins.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2021
  • To drive each contraction, cells in the muscles convert glycogen, one of the body’s primary stores of energy, into the chemical adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
    — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Sep. 2019
  • In return, the body adapts nutritious molecules into a host of cellular processes and adenosine triphosphate, or ATP, which cells turn into energy.
    — Andrew Chapman, Longreads, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Your heart pumps blood to circulate that oxygen throughout your body so your muscles and organs can use oxygen and glucose to make adenosine triphosphate (ATP), a molecule that your cells use for energy.
    — Heidi Moawad, Verywell Health, 7 Oct. 2024
  • This energy is mostly in the form of the energy-carrying molecule ATP (adenosine triphosphate) which, in turn, powers cellular functions.
    — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • This process releases two molecules of ATP (adenosine triphosphate), life’s universal energy currency.
    — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 13 May 2026
  • About 95% of your body's creatine is in the skeletal muscles, playing a role in producing adenosine triphosphate (ATP), molecules that are the energy supply for cells.
    — Mark Gurarie, Health, 28 Oct. 2024
  • The chemical currency of cellular metabolism, adenosine triphosphate is produced only after protons are pumped out of the cell and into its surroundings, setting up a pH gradient across the cell membrane.
    — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 21 Mar. 2018
  • This budget-friendly creatine supplement helps to enhance the body's performance by replenishing the adenosine triphosphate (ATP) levels in the muscles.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 6 July 2023
  • This molecular assembly line generates life’s energy currency, a molecule known as adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
    — Quanta Magazine, 10 June 2026
  • An energy molecule called adenosine triphosphate (ATP) fuels the process by pumping protons into the vacuole to make its interior acidic—optimal for degradation.
    — Byelizabeth Pennisi, science.org, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Through a few different biochemical processes, our cells convert these nutrients into a usable form of chemical energy called adenosine triphosphate, or ATP.
    — Amy Marturana, SELF, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Yeast uses sugar to create adenosine triphosphate (ATP), a molecule that provides energy for many biological processes.
    — Molly Glick, Popular Science, 10 Mar. 2020
  • Right after fish is caught and killed, an energy-carrying molecule in the cells of all living things called ATP (adenosine triphosphate) is broken down and converted to inosinic acid, an umami-producing compound.
    — Akiko Katayama, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
  • To produce energy, mitochondrial power plants in a cell use electron transport chains to convert electrons to adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the cell’s energy currency.
    — Roni Dengler, Science | AAAS, 3 May 2018

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