How to Use organism in a Sentence

organism

noun
  • A human being is a complex organism.
  • Over time, those tiny organisms do their work.
    — Lynn Andriani, Martha Stewart, 21 Feb. 2026
  • The maze, in a way, serves as a metaphor for an organism’s life.
    — Sophia Chen, Wired, 9 June 2020
  • The organism enters the body through a cut or scrape in the skin.
    — New York Times, 16 Dec. 2020
  • Some of it derived from organisms in the soil in which they were buried.
    — Ari Daniel, NPR, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The effect on deep-sea organisms was even more dire.
    — Jeffrey Marlow, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026
  • And for want of that protein, the organism–you–may start to fall apart.
    — Veronique Greenwood, Time, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The organism is a fungus that affects the new leaves and fruits.
    — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 26 June 2021
  • At some point, a living organism emerged on Earth for the first time.
    — Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 16 Sep. 2025
  • One option is a small, worm-like organism that attacks them in the soil.
    — Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 27 Jan. 2026
  • But, a special few organisms have adapted to call them their home.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 11 June 2025
  • Now imagine that at the level of the whole organism.
    — Dominique Mosbergen, Time, 16 Oct. 2025
  • In a world of ankle-high plants, these organisms grew tall as telephone poles.
    — Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Those that do are known as vectors – organisms that can carry and spread pathogens.
    — Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 24 May 2026
  • First, an organism must be found or captured and sampled, of course.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Oct. 2025
  • And for less studied organisms, such as sea sponges, that timeline can be even longer.
    — K. R. Callaway, Scientific American, 24 May 2026
  • The team did not create a true 19-amino-acid organism.
    — Jacek Krywko, Scientific American, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Some organisms were found using the trash as a surface to grow on, hide in, or lay eggs.
    — Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Almost overnight, a slime mold, fungus-like organism oozes up the stems and leaf blades of turf.
    — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 17 July 2021
  • These organisms are known as extremophiles.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Having the eyes outside the skull orients the organism to the time of day.
    — Jessica Wapner, Scientific American, 16 Nov. 2020
  • The catch was that introners were only known to exist in a few organisms.
    — Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Watch this video to see a few organisms invisible to the naked eye.
    — Alexandra Banner, CNN, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Crispr can make precise cuts to the genomes of pretty much any organism on the planet.
    — Megan Molteni, Wired, 28 Dec. 2020
  • But if a major organ like the brain gets damaged, the whole organism fails.
    — Max Norman, Outside Online, 13 Apr. 2021
  • The system is not yet ready for use inside a living organism.
    — New Atlas, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The sticky organism reminded him of the next day’s labors and the scent of the forest.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Scrub mints are a clade – a group of organisms that share a common ancestor.
    — Andre A. Naranjo, The Conversation, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Yet, on the species level, an organism might not need to survive to be reborn.
    — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 27 Dec. 2023
  • And like the yeast, the bacteria seem to still be alive, in the slow way of organisms that live in the cold.
    — ArsTechnica, 6 June 2026

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