How to Use biomass in a Sentence

biomass

noun
  • Then, too, big trees have lots of biomass in the form of limbs.
    — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 30 June 2022
  • In fact, more than half of the biomass of prairie plants are below ground.
    — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 9 Dec. 2024
  • That biomass comes from another world and has no place in this one.
    — Stephen A. Pyne, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Jan. 2025
  • For sheer biomass, nothing in the plant kingdom beats a tree.
    — Tamar Haspel, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Pigs, which can also carry the flu, make up even more biomass.
    — Boyce Upholt, The New Republic, 19 Sep. 2022
  • The biomass of the world’s poultry is three times that of all the wild birds combined.
    — Boyce Upholt, The New Republic, 19 Sep. 2022
  • After all, there is more biomass in ants than elephants on this planet.
    — Russ Conser, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021
  • The bones, which make up half the biomass, are the last to decay, taking 7 years.
    — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 19 June 2017
  • Among marine mammals, baleen whales account for more than half of the biomass.
    — Byelizabeth Pennisi, science.org, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Wheat, rice and maize are likely the grasses with the highest biomass in the world.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 May 2022
  • The mission aims to track changes in biomass over time to learn more about the carbon cycle.
    — Popular Mechanics, 22 Dec. 2022
  • The tips of each branch can grow three inches a day and a plant can double its biomass every two weeks.
    — Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 8 July 2024
  • The ultimate goal of this project is make more efficient woody biomass.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 5 Dec. 2018
  • The total biomass of animals in the sea could drop by as much as 15%.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2019
  • In woodlands, the number of arthropod species had dropped by more than a third, and biomass by forty per cent.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Of all the complaints raised against biomass power, emissions may be the loudest.
    — Jane Braxton Little, Wired, 27 June 2020
  • The biomass of housecats is about double that of African elephants and four times that of moose.
    — Byelizabeth Pennisi, science.org, 27 Feb. 2023
  • On land, soils form the largest carbon sink, even larger than the biomass of all forests put together.
    — Emanuela Barbiroglio, Forbes, 4 May 2021
  • The spinach grown next to one of the two exhaust vents on the roof had four times the biomass of spinach grown next to a control fan.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 15 Nov. 2022
  • The tomatoes had a higher biomass and also had more potassium when grown this way.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 1 May 2024
  • Areas with wind farms had more species of fish, and twice the biomass of comparable regions.
    — Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 19 Dec. 2025
  • Black spruce burn spectacularly, but most of the biomass that goes up in smoke is the duff itself.
    — Randi Jandt, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Wood and variations such as cord wood, wood chips and pellets are known in the industry as biomass.
    — Bloomberg.com, 12 May 2017
  • The plastic made from biomass is tough and flexible, and can twist without breaking.
    — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 May 2024
  • Corn stalk is the woody biomass that remains after cotton is extracted.
    — Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 19 Nov. 2025
  • The index is based on the bloom’s biomass — the amount of algae — during the peak 30 days of the bloom.
    — cleveland, 30 June 2022
  • The fuel is the vegetation and the biomass that fire consumes.
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 17 Apr. 2026
  • It can be done more frequently, offers more trigger pulls, and takes less biomass out of the ecosystem.
    — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 15 Oct. 2019
  • When dead biomass freezes, hungry microbes can’t feast on it and release carbon dioxide in the process.
    — Eric Roston, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Dec. 2021
  • The largest one percent of trees—the giants—store half of the above-ground biomass carbon in tropical forests.
    — Ellyn Lapointe, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024

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