How to Use electrolyte in a Sentence

electrolyte

noun
  • The drink will replenish your electrolytes.
  • Is there a best time of day to drink electrolytes?
    — Michele Ross, SELF, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Time for some more electrolytes, but it’s clumped in the tube!
    — R29 Team, Refinery29, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The molten salt acts as a secondary electrolyte.
    — Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Sports drinks that contain electrolytes can help.
    — Laurel Leicht, Health, 21 Oct. 2025
  • If plain water doesn’t seem to help, electrolytes could help you out.
    — Michele Ross, SELF, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The tricky part is that, again, some of us lose more electrolytes than others.
    — Jennifer Heimlich, SELF, 18 Aug. 2025
  • The seeds are salty, and sodium is one of the main electrolytes lost through sweat.
    — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2024
  • The loss of electrolytes can strain the heart, cramp the body, cause fainting and even death.
    — Alice Li, Washington Post, 14 June 2023
  • Players use the time to take on water and electrolytes.
    — Ben Church, CNN Money, 18 June 2026
  • Pair it with a glass of water and perhaps electrolytes.
    — Laura Schober, Health, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The fake womb consists of a clear plastic bag filled with electrolytes.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 17 Jan. 2018
  • The best time to consume electrolytes is in the first hour post-workout.
    — Kelly Burch, Verywell Health, 6 Oct. 2025
  • But there are some cases in which adding electrolytes may be helpful.
    — Jacqueline Howard, CNN Money, 13 June 2026
  • There's a lot of hype around electrolyte supplements right now.
    — Kathleen Ferraro, Verywell Health, 5 Feb. 2026
  • The solid electrolyte should work with any cathode type, though.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 9 Dec. 2020
  • Still, though—your homemade electrolyte drink will taste a lot better.
    — Alisha McDarris, Popular Science, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The team’s breakthrough rests on a new solid electrolyte.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Most people get electrolytes from a healthy diet.
    — Lindsay Curtis, Verywell Health, 19 Feb. 2026
  • This is a great way to save on soft drinks, juice boxes, and electrolyte drinks for the summer.
    — Deanne Revel, Southern Living, 24 Jan. 2025
  • And then Sunday Cats, which are these electrolyte freeze pops.
    — Marielle Wakim, Los Angeles Magazine, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Cure is our go-to for a more natural-tasting electrolyte mix.
    — Olivia Tarantino, Bon Appetit Magazine, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Trees could give their cellulose to a new kind of battery electrolyte.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Consuming these foods can help fuel your body and meet its electrolyte needs.
    — Lana Barhum, Verywell Health, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Water does not have electrolytes, so reach for a sports drink to replenish them.
    — Amanda Gardner, Health, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Also encourage them to take tiny sips of sports drinks with electrolytes.
    — Cindy Krischer Goodman, sun-sentinel.com, 3 July 2019
  • Over time, crud builds up at the boundary between the anode and electrolyte.
    — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 5 Feb. 2020
  • Less electrolyte makes the cells lighter but also harder to fully wet.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Nadeau says this is her favorite electrolyte powder on the market.
    — Perri O. Blumberg, Men's Health, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The method is well known in other fields but had not been used for solid electrolytes before.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2025

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