How to Use receptor in a Sentence

receptor

noun
  • The great tree is festooned with receptors and wires.
    — Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Dogs have receptors for sweet, sour, spicy, and bitter tastes.
    — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 1 Oct. 2024
  • This is where the receptor agonist part of the name comes from.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Just bring a frozen block to the roof of your mouth, where receptors for your face’s blood vessels live.
    — Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 12 Dec. 2025
  • These sensors serve the same purpose as the receptors in your nose.
    — Ambuj Tewari, The Conversation, 30 May 2024
  • These cells express receptors that are able to sense the presence of the virus.
    — Laura Haynes, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2018
  • With that being said, your panties are the receptors of all the discharge.
    — Essence, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Opioids bind to certain parts of the brain, called mu receptors.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Gaba receptors swinging from the ledges of a mind, all shot down.
    — Kortney Morrow, The Atlantic, 1 Mar. 2026
  • And how are the taste receptors that are all over the surface of your tongue supposed to work?
    — Linda Bartoshuk, The Conversation, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Cue the dopamine receptors; these films are designed to light up the joyful parts of your brain.
    — Andrew Walsh, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Dec. 2025
  • Estrogens bind to both receptors with the same strength.
    — Merve Ceylan, Health, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The drug binds to receptors in the brain involved with feelings of pain and emotions.
    — Terry Demio, Cincinnati.com, 11 Sep. 2017
  • Your ability to savor food comes from the receptor cells in your tongue’s taste buds.
    — Ian Randall, Science | AAAS, 6 Oct. 2020
  • Because the simplest versions of this just put in one new receptor.
    — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Some bind to the brain’s opioid receptors weakly.
    — Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 8 May 2026
  • Some bind to the brain’s opioid receptors weakly.
    — Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 1 May 2026
  • Capsaicin affects the body’s pain and heat receptors.
    — Merve Ceylan, Health, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Once the virus reaches those cell receptors in and around your throat, your immune system kicks in.
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 8 Dec. 2025
  • The brain mapping doesn't hurt Schardt; there are no pain receptors on the surface of the brain.
    — NBC News, 29 Oct. 2019
  • The chemical receptors in your brain have changed; that’s the problem.
    — Wright Wilson, Detroit Free Press, 7 Sep. 2019
  • Both the emitter and the receptor were situated on the ground for the test.
    — New Atlas, 15 June 2025
  • These special receptors are found not only in cells in the heart and lungs, but also in kidneys.
    — NBC News, 22 Apr. 2020
  • The first is a pair of shoes that activate your mind body connection through receptors in your feet.
    — New Atlas, 27 Oct. 2025
  • This is where our lab’s work and the story of a receptor called GluD1 comes in.
    — Siddhesh Sabnis, The Conversation, 23 June 2025
  • These receptors are like ports that shuttle molecules into and out of these cells.
    — Rj MacKenzie, Popular Science, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The receptor is found throughout our body, including the inside of our mouth.
    — Ken Kawada, Popular Mechanics, 29 Nov. 2022
  • And can the virus’s proteins recognize and bind to structures, known as receptors, on those cells?
    — Quanta Magazine, 25 Feb. 2020
  • Lucemyra blocks receptors in the brain to ease the discomfort, Jones said.
    — Grace Schneider, The Courier-Journal, 30 May 2018
  • The smart money was on the other gene, which encoded one of the two orexin receptors.
    — Henry Nicholls, CNN, 24 Oct. 2017

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