How to Use electrode in a Sentence

electrode

noun
  • The key part of these sensors is the electrode.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 27 May 2021
  • The pedestal is wired to electrodes that rest on the surface of the brain.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 24 Aug. 2023
  • When the electrodes stay apart, the battery doesn’t catch fire.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 6 Sep. 2025
  • When a neuron in the organoids fired, one of the electrodes would light up.
    — New York Times, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Electrodes are placed on the surface of the scalp to detect brain waves.
    — Jonece Starr Dunigan, AL.com, 30 June 2017
  • Inside a thick electrode, not all pores behave the same way.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 16 Jan. 2026
  • From there, electrodes are attached to both ends to create a neon sign.
    — Jessica Christian, SFChronicle.com, 9 July 2018
  • What that means is that electrodes were held at specific spots along my spine.
    — David Lazarus, latimes.com, 30 June 2017
  • With the electrode array turned on, the spinal cord was awakened.
    — Nate Berg, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2013
  • Bark-Huss spent the night in Paller’s lab with electrodes on her head.
    — Shayla Love, New Yorker, 1 May 2026
  • The researchers then placed electrodes on either side of the ridge to act as a gate.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Each electrode is thinner than a human hair.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 27 Nov. 2025
  • Switch on the electrode next door, and a second dot will appear next to the first one.
    — Adam Rogers, Wired, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Guards strapped him down, placed a black hood over his face and attached electrodes to his head and right leg.
    — Tribune Media Services, al, 5 Jan. 2020
  • To bring about treatment based on this requires electrodes in the brain to help kick it out of this state.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 15 Aug. 2018
  • These are measured by putting sensors called electrodes on the scalp, around the eyes, and on the chin.
    — Beth Ann Malow, Discover Magazine, 24 Nov. 2024
  • Each cell in the stack has a membrane that separates its two electrodes.
    — Kat Friedrich, Ars Technica, 20 Sep. 2024
  • The solid would bear the loads and the liquid would help ions move between the electrodes.
    — Daniel Oberhaus, Popular Mechanics, 8 May 2023
  • As for the other cell electrode, the anode, today most of them are made of graphite.
    — John Voelcker, Car and Driver, 4 Mar. 2023
  • No one seems happy to still be zapping themselves with electrodes.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026
  • The electrodes measure whether the brain is responding to the sounds.
    — WIRED, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The electrode sheets are fed through a small machine, like dough wound through a pasta maker.
    — Gregory Barber, Wired, 2 Nov. 2021
  • The quarter-size chip implant has dozens of tiny threadlike electrodes.
    — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The electrons these electrodes give off, meanwhile, pass through the wire outside the cell.
    — John Voelcker, Car and Driver, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Not only did the hats hold the electrodes in place, but the cats also stopped trying to chew the wires.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 27 Sep. 2024
  • This approach creates thicker electrodes that can store more charge.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 16 Jan. 2026
  • The wire electrode should stick out between 1/4 and 3/8 inch.
    — Phillip Pantuso, Popular Mechanics, 27 May 2015
  • The powder was then formed into thin electrode layers.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The Changsha group decided to move the electrode to one end of the tube.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Subcutaneous wires run all the way from that device to each of the electrodes.
    — Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 21 Oct. 2024

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