How to Use lactate in a Sentence

lactate

1 of 2 noun
  • The buildup of lactate in the bloodstream is often blamed, but that is simply not true.
    — Richard A. Lovett, Outside, 19 Oct. 2025
  • The main clue to what lets melanoma cells metastasize was that those that do chow down on lactate in the bloodstream.
    — Sharon Begley, STAT, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Researchers already knew most of the break-down of lactate happens in the liver.
    — Anna Funk, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2019
  • For instance, both lactate and glucose break down to peroxide.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 4 Feb. 2020
  • To this coach, the promise of lower lactate was not what interested him.
    — Alex Hutchinson, Outside, 29 Oct. 2025
  • To help get rid of flakes, look for a lotion with ammonium lactate or alpha-hydroxy acid.
    — Lindsay Modglin, Verywell Health, 20 June 2023
  • The tubes are coated with enzymes that process natural fuels, such as lactate in sweat or glucose in the blood.
    — Charles Q. Choi, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2018
  • These bacteria use lactate and break it down into propionate.
    — Emily Willingham, Scientific American, 24 June 2019
  • It was formerly believed that this spike in blood lactate hastened muscle fatigue.
    — Matt Fitzgerald, Outside Online, 14 Sep. 2018
  • To get the best picture of how hard a workout is, the professionals analyze the amount of lactate in the blood.
    — Kathryn Free, Popular Mechanics, 13 Aug. 2014
  • These muscle fibers rely on glucose for energy, breaking it down into lactate, which can help fuel the brain.
    — Erica Sloan, SELF, 21 Nov. 2025
  • For marathoners, running your rest periods at marathon pace or slightly slower can teach your body how to burn fat and clear lactate while running at goal pace.
    — Jeff Gaudette, Outside Online, 30 Aug. 2019
  • The promise to lower lactate is reminiscent of claims about baking soda, which has swept through endurance sport over the past few years.
    — Alex Hutchinson, Outside, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Magnesium lactate is lactose-free, contrary to popular thought, and is known to be gentle on the stomach.
    — Sarah Anzlovar, Ms, Verywell Health, 15 May 2023
  • The study shows that lactate is not only present, but also necessary, for every step in cancer’s development.
    — Brittany Anas, The Denver Post, 21 Apr. 2017
  • Resistance and interval training can improve the lactate threshold, or the point at which muscles begin to fatigue and fail.
    — National Geographic, 4 May 2017
  • Their father, who is their coach, has tightly controlled all interval sessions with measures of heart rate and blood lactate concentration.
    — Amby Burfoot, Outside Online, 10 Aug. 2021
  • Similarly, the average heart rate and final lactate levels were essentially the same in both rides.
    — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 20 June 2018
  • Many cyclists also use heart rate monitors strapped around their chests or wrists, and are eyeing some of the newer, more in-depth wearables, such as lactate threshold monitors.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2016
  • What was especially intriguing about these bacteria was their appetite for a molecule called lactate.
    — Stephanie Demarco, latimes.com, 25 June 2019
  • Human sweat contains many different metabolites, including lactate, amino acids and fats, as well as sodium.
    — Markham Heid, Time, 26 July 2017
  • But during and after the six minutes of hard, fast pedaling, lactate soared and so did BDNF.
    — Gretchen Reynolds, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Apr. 2023
  • One explanation for the change, the researchers suggest, has to do with lactate produced in muscles and transported to the gut to be metabolized.
    — New Atlas, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Calcium lactate crystals are most common in Cheddar and Colby cheeses, and may cause a slightly chalky or gritty mouthfeel.
    — Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 5 Dec. 2025
  • Lactate threshold is pinpointed where the blood lactate concentration begins to increase rapidly.
    — Matt Fitzgerald, Outside Online, 2 Nov. 2020
  • The latest research even suggests that lactate — a metabolic byproduct of exercise — has positive effects on mental health.
    — Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2020
  • Keeping your muscles exposed to this tension also causes a build-up of various metabolites like lactate and creatine.
    — Sherri Gordon, Health, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Using a scalable synthesis based on iron lactate, the team introduced metallic iron nanoparticles into the carbon framework of the hollow spheres.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Berggren and Strakosas plan to fine-tune their recipe so that the gel solidifies only in areas of the brain where there’s lots of lactate available—that is, areas that are extremely active.
    — WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Interestingly, riders notched similar lactate levels and heart rates at the end of both sessions despite the people who rode longer burning more energy.
    — Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 18 May 2026

lactate

2 of 2 verb
  • Males have a venomous spur on their hind legs, and females lactate by sweating on their tummies.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Nov. 2020
  • Others simply do not lactate — as in the case of foster or adoptive parents.
    — New York Times, 20 May 2022
  • Corn is a desirable crop to feed lactating cows and growing beef cattle.
    — Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 18 June 2019
  • But there too, her unborn child is echoed in the face of a young girl in a store, and her body, unconscious of her loss, starts to lactate.
    — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 12 Jan. 2021
  • Mama bear was down with pneumonia and was too malnourished to lactate.
    — Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Many women lactate naturally around the time a baby is born, but this is not always the case.
    — Dallas News, 18 Jan. 2023
  • These cockroaches possess protein-rich crystals that lactate to feed their young.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 26 May 2018
  • Hormones undergo great shifts, as well, to prepare the body for birth and the ability to lactate.
    — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 22 Aug. 2023
  • The mothers were also able to lactate, a process controlled by progesterone emitted by glands in the ovaries.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 16 May 2017
  • Mothers who are too malnourished to lactate have no formula to feed their babies.
    — Hamna Zubair, Vogue, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Poole believes the female under which the infant hid, which had swollen breasts from lactating, was its mother.
    — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 2 May 2017
  • Almonds surely don’t lactate—but keeping various milk products straight may not be a breeze.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 6 Aug. 2018
  • Designed for pregnant and lactating women, this supplement is high in folic acid, iron, and zinc.
    — Korin Miller, Allure, 3 May 2018
  • These repellants are also safe for use in pregnant and lactating women.
    — Gabriela Moraru, M.d., miamiherald, 4 June 2018
  • Hicks was lactating, and her doctor told her that her bulletproof vest was too tight and risked causing a breast infection.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 16 June 2018
  • Mothers would stop lactating and start ovulating again, giving the marauding male a chance to spread his genes.
    — Blake Edgar, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2016
  • Researchers used healthy animals that were not pregnant or lactating for tagging.
    — Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 11 Dec. 2025
  • For women who are lactating, the RDA is 9 milligrams per day.
    — Casey Seiden, Parents, 26 Feb. 2024
  • While not the same as the workplace, not having space for lactating people in sports is also an equity issue.
    — Torie Bosch, STAT, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Debbie starts to lactate, and clenches her breasts in giggly embarrassment.
    — Rachel Syme, New Republic, 30 June 2017
  • The sight of Holly in the church causes June to spontaneously lactate.
    — Rena Gross, Billboard, 4 July 2018
  • Some people may have concerns about using these products around young children or pregnant or lactating people.
    — Steven Rowe, Health, 28 Aug. 2023
  • What's more, nursing babies can react to something in their lactating parent's diet.
    — Nicole Harris, Parents, 17 July 2023
  • None of the 24 female bears were reported to be lactating, which is a sign a female bear recently gave birth.
    — Cbs Miami Team, CBS News, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Controversy erupted over the fact that among the dead were 36 lactating females.
    — Craig Pittman, orlandosentinel.com, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Experts say policies and society have a long way to go in providing either to lactating parents.
    — Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 24 Aug. 2023
  • But sRPE is proven to have a high correlation with heart rate and lactate production.
    — Amby Burfoot, Outside Online, 2 Oct. 2020
  • California bans the feeding of poultry litter to lactating dairy cows.
    — Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2024
  • The researchers examined the breast milk of 38 lactating parents at four different times per day.
    — ​wendy Wisner, Parents, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Additionally, prey transfer from the adult male in the roost to the lactating female was also observed.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 20 Aug. 2025

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