How to Use osmosis in a Sentence

osmosis

noun
  • She seems to learn foreign languages by osmosis.
  • It was all done by kind of osmosis.
    — Matt Thompson, SPIN, 4 May 2026
  • That’s kind of sunk in, even in a non-conscious way, sort of by osmosis.
    — Taylor Weatherby, Billboard, 27 Sep. 2019
  • With unglazed red clay pots, the water may even seep in through the outer walls by osmosis.
    — Maureen Gilmer, idahostatesman, 28 Feb. 2018
  • Any mentorship that is passed down seeps through like osmosis.
    — Sopan Deb, New York Times, 5 May 2017
  • So a lot of work goes into that — a lot of preparation and research and osmosis.
    — Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Her school aims to help others who don’t grow up learning etiquette by osmosis avoid missteps.
    — Callum Borchers, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2022
  • At the time, I was told a brine works through osmosis, an explanation that didn’t make much sense.
    — J. Kenji López-Alt, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Yet somehow, the city’s sounds were already somewhere within him, as if through osmosis.
    — Joe Coscarelli, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Soon the recycled air in the house begins to shift, an osmosis from cool to warm to unbearably hot.
    — Hurmat Kazmi, The Atlantic, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Still, osmosis can be valuable, and that’s what Simpson is trying to glean.
    — Nate Atkins, New York Times, 9 June 2026
  • Part of me wanted to pick her brain, to have a chance to receive some of her enthusiasm and hope by osmosis.
    — Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Somehow, Elijah and I kind of talk through osmosis.
    — Sophie Dodd, PEOPLE, 21 Apr. 2026
  • But growing up in Omaha, a boy’s love for baseball could be born of sheer osmosis.
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Its as if he was somehow supposed to absorb all of Brady's genius through osmosis.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Natasha Broxton learned the ins and out of the recycling business by osmosis.
    — La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Reverse osmosis systems are ideal for running water from the tap or fresh water sources from streams and rivers.
    — Tamar Kane, Health, 6 Feb. 2023
  • This isn't likely to happen through osmosis, as popular culture still skews white.
    — Elissa Strauss, CNN, 11 Mar. 2021
  • The process of moving water across a semipermeable membrane is called osmosis.
    — Svenja Lohner, Scientific American, 9 Jan. 2020
  • Salt also moves into the cells via osmosis, seasoning the flesh more than surface salting alone.
    — Anne Wolf, Martha Stewart, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Steve had brought along Rigby, who found plenty to interest a young Labrador as if by osmosis.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 8 May 2021
  • Getting that recognition on the east side isn’t just going to happen by osmosis, Oltvedt said.
    — Kansas City Star, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Perhaps it’s ingrained in me via osmosis from parents and grandparents.
    — Michael Walker, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Eventually, much of life is learned through the osmosis of what feels right — patterns that become ingrained in our brains and hard to change.
    — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Any kind of lackadaisical approach or assumption that the brand will by osmosis stay in favor is a fool’s gambit.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Salt adds flavor and pulls moisture into the meat through the processes of osmosis and diffusion.
    — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 17 Nov. 2022
  • People learn to be racists, Jacobs-Jenkins argues, by some sort of osmosis.
    — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 26 Apr. 2018
  • This is where the reverse osmosis (RO) system plays an important role.
    — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Now, no kids develop the habit, even if only from osmosis, of watching and listening to the Dodgers.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2019
  • The water flows through filters and is pushed by high-pressure pumps, passing through thousands of reverse-osmosis membranes.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2022

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