How to Use cellulosic in a Sentence

cellulosic

adjective
  • Danner said the current product is made with wood pulp, but the process allows for flexibility and can turn all sorts of cellulosic waste into strong fibers.
    — Jean E. Palmieri, WWD, 26 Feb. 2025
  • One of them provides raw material for cellulosic ethanol, in which certain grasses and the stalks of food crops are converted into liquid fuel.
    — Eric Toensmeier, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2020
  • Regenerated cellulosic fibers, such as rayon, viscose, lyocell or modal, can be softer and silkier than cotton with a cool-to-the-touch feel.
    — Grace Wu, Good Housekeeping, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Body Butter offers effortless, day-to-day fashions that highlight your natural curves with fabric that is as smooth as butter and made of cellulosic fibers.
    — Emerald Elitou, Essence, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Because the enzyme only affects cellulosic structures, any synthetic content is left behind.
    — Sarah Jones, Sourcing Journal, 15 Aug. 2024
  • The resulting proposal aims to lower the cellulosic ethanol requirement for the first time -- to 238 million gallons next year.
    — Mario Parker, Bloomberg.com, 30 Sep. 2017
  • Continuing the $1-per-gallon subsidy for cellulosic ethanol and the renewable fuel standards will also help.
    — Discover Magazine, 17 Nov. 2010
  • Processing equipment proved hard to operate, petrol prices fell and governments eased mandates designed to force the pricier cellulosic fuels into the market.
    — Peter Fairley, Scientific American, 13 Dec. 2022
  • More than 200 million trees are logged each year to be transformed into cellulosic fabrics like viscose, rayon, lyocell, modal, cupro, and Tencel.
    — Arizona Muse, Vogue, 21 Sep. 2022
  • There’s cellulosic fibers from Eastman Naia Renew made from wood pulp or hard-to-recycle materials like carpet.
    — Max Berlinger, Vogue, 16 Nov. 2021
  • The project, a speck of industry just outside tiny Emmetsburg, Iowa, was to be the nation’s first-ever cellulosic ethanol plant to operate at commercial scale.
    — Erika Fry, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2017
  • To gain a distribution advantage cotton plants produce a pure cellulosic fiber from the seed that is intended to help the wind carry the seed once the cotton bolls open to support distribution of cotton seed to a greater area.
    — Joseph Deacetis, Forbes, 10 June 2021
  • Oil companies can comply by blending more biofuels into their products, particularly advanced biofuels such as renewable diesel and cellulosic ethanol.
    — David R. Baker, The Seattle Times, 28 Feb. 2018
  • This creates an opportunity to mix biofuels instead of relying on a single source—for example, cellulosic and advanced biofuels could be used to meet the requirements instead of using just total renewable fuel.
    — Clarisa Diaz, Quartz, 22 June 2023
  • And to what extent do the farmers harvesting the Himalayan nettle retain ownership of the natural capital in the lustrous long fibers, which have superior mechanical properties when compared to their cellulosic cousins cotton, hemp, and linen.
    — Brooke Roberts-Islam, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2021

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'cellulosic.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: