How to Use extrusion in a Sentence

extrusion

noun
  • Aluminum sheet, plate and foil as well as rolling, drawing and extrusions7.
    — Rachel Layne, CBS News, 30 Dec. 2019
  • The rate of lava flow extrusion has also gone down in the last few days.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 20 Nov. 2019
  • Now, most of these eruptions are small puffs of ash or maybe the slow extrusion of lava at the summit.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 18 Apr. 2024
  • At the bottom of where the laptop sits is a slight metal extrusion, to help keep the laptop in place.
    — Alec Scherma, Good Housekeeping, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Sohl made a chassis for his new machine out of extrusion rails and stiffening plates.
    — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Domes like this are created by the slow extrusion of sticky andesite lava.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 28 Apr. 2023
  • It’s chopped to smaller sizes and sent through a series of extrusion processes that will melt and scrub it of grime.
    — Nick Davidson, Outside Online, 25 May 2020
  • And, just like extrusion printing, this process can be built up by adding additional layers.
    — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Jan. 2026
  • In this way, bioelectrical flow across cell membranes lets tissues test which cells are the least healthy and mark them for extrusion.
    — Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Spitler said that both extrusion and projection are used in the four liver printing projects that were selected.
    — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Jan. 2026
  • The backbone of my seismometer is a 60-cm-long aluminum extrusion.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Jan. 2025
  • There are two sets of extrusion systems for different filaments.
    — Chris Hachey, BGR, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Vicente operates plastic extrusion machines, which wrap wires and coat them in plastic.
    — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 3 Mar. 2023
  • What really sparked the explosion of pasta shapes was the invention of the extrusion press.
    — Jeffrey Miller, The Conversation, 12 May 2021
  • Their product is made through a yeast fermentation process that produces silk proteins, which then go through an extrusion process to become fibers.
    — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 27 July 2017
  • Their product is made through a yeast fermentation process that produces silk proteins, which then go through an extrusion process to become fibers.
    — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 26 July 2017
  • It’s commonly called coffin birth, though researchers use the terms post-mortem fetal extrusion or expulsion.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 3 Apr. 2017
  • Combined with the eddy current sensor for flow calibration, extrusion remains steady across long runs.
    — PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Toyota's system uses an extremely beefy aluminum extrusion cage that covers the entire ceiling of the test house.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 1 Oct. 2020
  • PrimaLoft has its own extrusion process that turns aerogels into a powder form and then loads it into extremely tiny polyester polymer fiber.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Extruflex makes flexible vinyl strips and sheets through a process called extrusion, which melts and forms vinyl materials into a specific shape and size.
    — William Thornton | [email protected], al, 24 Sep. 2019
  • Those results lent support to the idea of loop extrusion, a prior proposal about how DNA is packaged.
    — Quanta Magazine, 22 Feb. 2018
  • The current project, studying a process called extrusion, is the most experimental, Ekblaw said.
    — Pranshu Verma, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Rosenblatt has spent 25 years piecing together the details of epithelial extrusion, a process that keeps tissue growth in check.
    — Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 12 Jan. 2026
  • However, real animal muscle tends to have more complex structure than anything extrusion can achieve.
    — The Economist, 12 Oct. 2019
  • The researchers were fabricating magnetic coils using a process called extrusion printing for another project.
    — New Atlas, 21 Oct. 2024
  • The lightweight aluminum extrusions that run along either side of the guards securely hold the mesh in place to prevent any holes from forming, and the product is designed to be used on any type of roof, even flat ones.
    — Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The Air's chassis and body are virtually all-aluminum, a mix of extrusions and castings bonded by rivets, screws and adhesives (and very few welds) to trim weight.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Oct. 2021
  • The Air’s chassis and body are virtually all-aluminum, a mix of extrusions and castings bonded by rivets, screws and adhesives (and very few welds) to trim weight.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Oct. 2021
  • The Mediterranean magic begins with a weight-saving aluminum space frame, which has 23 separate alloys in its many extrusions and castings.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Mar. 2012

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