How to Use plasma in a Sentence

plasma

noun
  • Our new TV is a 50-inch plasma.
  • This stream of plasma is called the solar wind.
    — Samuel Badman, The Conversation, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The cause of these kicks is the ejection of blobs of plasma from the red giant stars.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 22 June 2026
  • From there, this matter is blasted out as twin near-light-speed jets of plasma.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 12 Dec. 2025
  • There's also a need for plasma and for platelets, which only have a five-day shelf life.
    — Stephanie Stahl, CBS News, 28 May 2026
  • The Sun is made up of what solar physicists like us call plasma.
    — Samuel Badman, The Conversation, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Of course, a hot, dense plasma wasn’t the beginning of things either.
    — Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Our team calls this concept the air-breathing microwave plasma thruster.
    — Sven Bilén, The Conversation, 16 Dec. 2025
  • On one side, a plasma field implanted the fuel.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Some of the plasma was held back and applied topically in a mask.
    — Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 18 Oct. 2025
  • This means more of the plasma is available to be spewed onto the space junk, and more plasma means more thrust.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Carter Taylor sold her plasma to pay bills during her first year of teaching.
    — Thomas White, Kansas City Star, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Last year, his mother was able to quit her job at a plasma center in Mobile, too.
    — David Ubben, New York Times, 15 May 2026
  • Physicists named this distinct phase of weird matter the quark-gluon plasma.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 6 Feb. 2026
  • How do dust particles behave in plasma?
    — Brian Unger, CBS News, 15 May 2026
  • Scientists call this state of matter a quark-gluon plasma.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 15 Mar. 2026
  • All of space was permeated by a roiling plasma.
    — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Inside are 324 smaller magnets that can fine-tune the shape of the plasma.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 16 Dec. 2025
  • For decades, scientists chalked this up to the turbulence known to occur in the sun's plasma.
    — Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The team hopes to extend the work by adding more physics, including cosmic rays and plasma effects.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
  • As the electrons pushed outward toward the tube walls, the plasma shaped itself like a concave lens.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The universe’s primordial quark-gluon plasma was, in fact, soupy.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
  • In a sense, the quark-gluon plasma seems impossible.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 6 Feb. 2026
  • For all the advances in modern medicine, there is still no substitute for human blood, platelets or plasma.
    — Dave Oates, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2026
  • The footage clearly shows the process of fueling and controlling the plasma.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 19 Oct. 2025
  • This tail consists of plasma that has been dragged through the cluster, creating a wispy trail that is millions of years old.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Blazar is the name given to AFNs that point one of these jets of plasma right at Earth.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Years of running plasmas through tokamaks has given us confidence that the basics of these plans are sound.
    — ArsTechnica, 9 June 2026
  • But the plasma can become unstable.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Both groups used plasma etching to dice up the dies instead of the usual method, which uses a specialized blade.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Aug. 2024

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