How to Use silicon in a Sentence

silicon

noun
  • The same kind of as if they were all just built on one piece of silicon.
    — Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 20 Mar. 2024
  • This is a custom piece of silicon that's new this year.
    — Eric Zeman, PC Magazine, 17 Sep. 2025
  • This is a custom piece of silicon that's new this year.
    — Eric Zeman, PC Magazine, 9 Mar. 2026
  • On the silicon side of things, expect a sea change soon, though.
    — John Burek, PCMAG, 26 Mar. 2024
  • The silicon tip in most earbuds act as ear plugs of sorts, which help seal off sound.
    — Ben Sin, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Then, layers of silicon are grown on top.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 4 Feb. 2026
  • But the silicon brains of that gear are often shipped in from overseas.
    — Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2020
  • Her work would go on to redefine what silicon could do.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Use a silicon mat for the cookies to have the finest uniform shape.
    — Patricia S York, Southern Living, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Casagrande used an ion beam microscope to blast four walls and a roof out of silicon.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 19 Dec. 2019
  • That means silicon would have been free to bind with hydrogen and form silane.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The lights are bout 12-inches tall and they’re made of silicon.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Channels had to be deep enough to allow coolant flow but not weaken the silicon.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The head straps are easy to adjust and are made of high-quality silicon.
    — Kelsey Ogle, Health, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Metal and silicon shed no tears, and this is a society of clones.
    — The New York Times, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Intel notes the warping risk grows as more silicon is placed on the substrate.
    — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The lever is nickel-phosphate and the balance spring is made of silicon.
    — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 2 Dec. 2025
  • Each part was made out of silicon that was shaped and molded to match Dalton’s leg.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 24 Oct. 2018
  • Apple just launched the Neo, which is based on silicon for mobile.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 10 May 2026
  • There are many ways to achieve this tighter integration of lasers and silicon.
    — Roel Baets, IEEE Spectrum, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Like, 300 percent, which can cause the silicon to break apart.
    — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 19 Oct. 2018
  • The magnetic silicon band can help keep the buds in your ears and can be used to wrap around your wrist when you’re done.
    — Greg Manlove, Rolling Stone, 12 Dec. 2024
  • The substrate is polyimide, a kind of plastic, rather than a silicon wafer.
    — Gregory Barber, Wired, 21 July 2021
  • Eventually, there won’t be enough atoms of silicon to do the job.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Oct. 2023
  • To reveal the silicon straw, @newyorknico enlisted the same fan to try it out.
    — David Chiu, Peoplemag, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Using silicon spray would leave a residue that would attract more dust and debris over time and make things worse.
    — Ken Colburn, The Arizona Republic, 16 July 2023
  • But perovskites emit more of the solar spectrum than does silicon.
    — New Atlas, 30 Nov. 2025
  • The names will be etched on a silicon chip in teeny-tiny text (smaller than the width of a human hair).
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 30 Sep. 2019
  • The essays are stenciled onto a tiny silicon chip mounted to the top of the rover.
    — Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Feb. 2021
  • The nanodevice used by the researchers is made from silicon.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 20 Feb. 2026

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'silicon.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: