How to Use follicle in a Sentence

follicle

noun
  • The fur that then grew out of that melanocyte-less follicle was gray.
    — Connie Chang, Popular Mechanics, 3 July 2023
  • Each follicle grows hair for a few years and then stops and the hair falls out.
    — Beth Wood, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Aug. 2019
  • The goal is to achieve the same hair length as other follicles.
    — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 14 July 2023
  • My ‘stache has been ripped off so many times that the follicles barely grow back.
    — Iman Hariri-Kia, Teen Vogue, 2 Oct. 2017
  • When your follicles make less melanin, your hair turns gray, silver, or white.
    — Brandi Jones, Health, 5 June 2026
  • The steam and hot water will open up your pores and soften the hair follicles.
    — Scott Christian, Esquire, 28 July 2017
  • The longer a follicle sits in a petri dish, the lower its survival rate.
    — Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 2 Jan. 2026
  • The air in a spacecraft is full of hair follicles and dead skin floating around.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 21 June 2017
  • At that point, the follicle from which a hair sprouted begins to grow a new one.
    — Stacey Colino, TIME, 12 July 2024
  • Your hair grows out of little pockets in your skin called follicles.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 7 Jan. 2019
  • The follicle, just like the hair fiber, can be different shapes and sizes.
    — Sabina Wizemann, Good Housekeeping, 8 Sep. 2023
  • How does Patricks’ awesome hair-growth serum work on follicles?
    — Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 22 May 2026
  • Once the melanin in hair is targeted, the laser burns all the way down the hair follicle and root.
    — Jessica Cruel, SELF, 1 June 2017
  • Healthy follicles allow for healthy hair.
    — Celia Shatzman, Forbes.com, 5 Jan. 2026
  • The follicle was trimmed off of each strand of hair and stored in a vial, then placed on ice and couriered to the lab.
    — Jessica Ourisman, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Hair thickness has a lot to do with the actual size of the follicle.
    — Annie Blay, Allure, 26 July 2024
  • This weakens the follicle over time to stifle hair from growing in the first place.
    — Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 7 May 2025
  • The thread is then pulled slightly to gently remove the hair from the follicle.
    — Harper's Bazaar Staff, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 June 2021
  • But my lead follicle is growing faster than the others, which is not ideal.
    — refinery29.com, 29 May 2020
  • The pigment in the follicles absorbs the light and that destroys the hair.
    — Chloe Malle, Vogue, 2 May 2018
  • The follicles stay inside the skin and then enter a new growth cycle.
    — Wyles Daniel, Freep.com, 25 Nov. 2025
  • These alter your skin's pH level to loosen hairs from the follicles.
    — Cristina Mueller, Redbook, 10 Jan. 2011
  • These morphogens would then prompt genes to produce proteins at the right places to form follicles.
    — Anna Demming, Quanta Magazine, 10 Oct. 2025
  • If your strands are looking thinner and feel weaker, a scalp serum can help give your follicles a boost.
    — Jackie Fields, Peoplemag, 4 July 2024
  • But this scalp massage strengthens that follicle, which in turn strengthens the hairs that grow from it.
    — Adam Hurly, GQ, 15 June 2018
  • The firm conducts follicle tests, which can catch traces of weed for up to three months after someone smokes.
    — Danielle Paquette, The Cannabist, 17 May 2017
  • This leads the follicle to keep growing, forming a larger cyst.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Follicular cysts form when the follicle doesn't let go of the egg and begins to swell up.
    — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 28 Jan. 2019
  • Although the bulb of the follicle is alive, the hair shaft is dead and insensible.
    — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 13 Jan. 2017
  • Once the follicle has been treated, the provider will remove the needle and use tweezers to slide the hair out.
    — Carrie Madormo, Rn, Health, 13 Dec. 2024

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