How to Use filament in a Sentence

filament

noun
  • That caused a tin filament to form on the pen’s tip.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 6 Dec. 2019
  • The filaments are about one light-year wide each, and tens of light-years long.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 11 Sep. 2019
  • But the team is still unsure how the filaments formed in the first place.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 30 Oct. 2024
  • This allows the rhubarb filaments to singe and caramelize in the oven’s high heat.
    — Melissa Clark, New York Times, 31 May 2023
  • The head and body of this hawk are composed of dark clouds and filaments of gas and dust.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 6 Mar. 2026
  • We are not bound from birth to death by a soul or immortal filament.
    — Big Think, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The crown is made of rushes wrapped into a wreath and tied with gold filament.
    — Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2019
  • In other words, a filament might be a pancake viewed along its edge.
    — Nia Imara, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Use cold or warm water, not hot, which can break down the filament in your pillows.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Researchers are not sure why the grass-like filaments form and what their function is.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Those protrusions are topped by a ring of string-like filaments.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2018
  • In the moment, her words offered a filament of hope.
    — Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Then the filament unwinds and moves through the shaft, flipping right-side out as well.
    — Viviane Callier, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Regions where one or more of these filaments meet, known as hubs, are where massive stars form.
    — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 4 July 2023
  • There’s an effort to replace the statue with one made out of a fiber filament.
    — USA TODAY, 3 July 2019
  • All or part of it may be dark because of a broken filament or a sketchy shunt (see glossary).
    — David Agrell, Popular Mechanics, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Each stalk is referred to as a filament and is topped by an anther (which contains the pollen).
    — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Feb. 2022
  • Ohia trees are tall and spindly, with a flowering red crown that spreads out in twiggy filaments.
    — Jennifer Kahn, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Still, the researchers are unsure what caused the filaments and the bubbles to form in the first place.
    — Denise Chow, NBC News, 16 Sep. 2019
  • First, the filaments will pull themselves apart as the voids around them squeeze them out of existence.
    — Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2023
  • Made out of hundreds of feet of plastic filament, the full-size camper took a total of nine days to print.
    — Megan Barber, Curbed, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Shaped like a filament, this structure of gas and dust is around 290 light-years long.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 22 June 2026
  • This made their shapes align more clearly with nearby cosmic filaments.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 29 Nov. 2025
  • Insert the filament through the pen so your kiddo can dream up their 3D art.
    — Stack Commerce, Popular Science, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Think of the filter in a mask not as a sieve but as a thicket—a dense tangle of miniscule filaments.
    — Ferris Jabr, Wired, 30 Mar. 2020
  • The masks are made with a special filament that can be form-fitted to the user’s face using heat.
    — Mark Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Mar. 2020
  • Viewers should be able to see the filament of the lightbulb, not the glow surrounding the bulb.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2024
  • Fronts and filaments In the new study, the team focused on these filaments.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 6 June 2024
  • Upon reaching the kidney stone, the filament is stopped.
    — New Atlas, 13 Aug. 2025
  • But some filaments, like ABS, must be heated, not cooled.
    — PC Magazine, 22 Nov. 2025

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