How to Use enzyme in a Sentence

enzyme

noun
  • This enzyme breaks down many drugs.
    — Merve Ceylan, Health, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Plus, no enzyme is known to last six years, Fontaine added.
    — Siddhant Pusdekar, Quanta Magazine, 1 June 2026
  • This is the enzyme that infects and spreads.
    — Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Some people don't have enough of this enzyme.
    — Merve Ceylan, Health, 4 Jan. 2026
  • When grapefruit blocks the enzyme, the medicine stays in your blood longer.
    — Merve Ceylan, Health, 20 Oct. 2025
  • To work, the spike must be cut in two, which is done by the enzyme furin.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Star Tribune, 10 June 2021
  • The enzymes and methane from the manure helped break down the food.
    — John Fialka, Scientific American, 6 Mar. 2020
  • Methane is a main byproduct of the enzymes that help break down the food.
    — Adam Satariano, New York Times, 1 May 2020
  • Blood and most of our cells contain an enzyme called catalase.
    — Dr. Michael Daignault, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2022
  • These strips use enzymes to break down any clogs and deodorize your drain.
    — Popular Science, 11 Feb. 2020
  • The enzymes help break down proteins and starches in set-in stains.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The enzymes help break down proteins and starches in set-in stains.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 6 Oct. 2025
  • One of them will stick the other with the love dart and that injects an enzyme.
    — Clarissa Cruz, EW.com, 18 Mar. 2022
  • This cap contains enzymes that help the sperm enter the ovum (egg).
    — Heather Jones, Verywell Health, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Your enzymes can't work on carbs when they're protected by the cell wall.
    — Michaeleen Doucleff, NPR, 16 Feb. 2026
  • The cyanide ion binds to this enzyme, and blocks it from doing its life-giving job.
    — Meg Neal, Popular Mechanics, 4 Oct. 2020
  • Evolution built traps out of leaves and enzymes.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
  • And in the tip of each frond or leaf is an enzyme that can, like, heal skin infections.
    — AFAR Media, 30 May 2026
  • But when the second enzyme is added, students found, the process works six times as fast.
    — Isabella Kwai, Star Tribune, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Some of the code is not necessary, so an enzyme cuts it out before it is used.
    — New York Times, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Treat the area with an enzyme detergent.
    — Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 25 June 2026
  • Treat with an enzyme detergent and wash.
    — Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 25 June 2026
  • The enzyme is found in saliva and the gut and breaks down complex sugars in food.
    — Laurie McGinley, Anchorage Daily News, 5 June 2020
  • Metals such as iron and zinc sit at the core of many of the most ancient enzymes found across life forms.
    — Siddhant Pusdekar, Quanta Magazine, 1 June 2026
  • This can be treated via injection with an enzyme that breaks down the filler.
    — Lisa Bain, Good Housekeeping, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Druker looked for a drug that would be an off switch for the abnormal enzyme.
    — Sydney Lupkin, NPR, 10 May 2026
  • Bromoform blocks one of the enzymes that methanogens use to create the gas.
    — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2019
  • The enzyme that causes the cleavage derives from the host cell.
    — WSJ, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Light Bio’s plant is engineered with the genes that make those enzymes.
    — WIRED, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Pre-treating the stain with an enzyme cleaner can also help.
    — Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 25 Dec. 2025

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