How to Use silicone rubber in a Sentence

silicone rubber

noun
  • The silicone rubber nubs on the bottom prevent sliding out of your shoe or bunching.
    — Emma Seymour, Good Housekeeping, 1 Aug. 2022
  • The sheer bodycon number was made out of silicone rubber, with the 'hair' fastened to the mini dress with silver hair clips.
    — Briannah Rivera, Seventeen, 15 June 2023
  • The sphere has a radius of 10 mm, and its 2-mm-thick silicone rubber walls surround a pocket of air.
    — Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 23 Apr. 2024
  • His monthslong process involves first putting live models in silicone rubber molds, which are cured and then built up with layers of plaster.
    — Joshua Glass, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Crafted from copper, glass, and silicone rubber, this feeder is sturdy and built to withstand harsh weather.
    — Brandi Fuller, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Mar. 2023
  • By creating an elastic sphere out of silicone rubber, his team improved on nature’s design.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 5 Feb. 2016
  • These are made from high quality silicone rubber and crafted with optimum thickness to absorb all noise.
    — Chris Hachey, BGR, 10 May 2021
  • These are made from high quality silicone rubber and crafted with optimum thickness to absorbs all noise.
    — Chris Hachey, BGR, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Nimble is a silicone rubber finger thimble in which a tiny ceramic blade is embedded.
    — Judi Dash, latimes.com, 23 Apr. 2018
  • The skin is made of silicone rubber, where sensors made of conducting carbon nanotubes are embedded.
    — Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 15 Mar. 2023
  • This putty-like substance sticks to most surfaces and molds into any shape before setting to durable, flexible silicone rubber.
    — Ebony Roberts, Outside Online, 6 July 2022
  • What has the ability to move and show its colors, is made only of silicone rubber and manufactured at the millimeter scale?
    — Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
  • The first phase of the expansion would add plants to produce high-consistency silicone rubber and silicone sealants.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 29 July 2022
  • The interior of the tunnel was surrounded by plates made of silicone rubber and aluminum oxide powder.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 23 Jan. 2017
  • Prototypes used a membrane of silicone rubber that allowed for the transfer of oxygen and carbon dioxide and protected the blood.
    — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2021
  • These two-piece magnetic leather bands are some of Apple’s nicer strap offerings and look much more refined than the typical silicone rubber.
    — Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge, 17 June 2024
  • The new pen’s tip is made of small neodymium magnets mixed into Ecoflex, a brand of silicone rubber advertised for production of prosthetics and film props.
    — Greg Uyeno, IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2025
  • Transcend uses a three-stage shock protection system, including a silicone rubber case, to protect your device from breaking.
    — Leeron Hoory, Popular Science, 26 Sep. 2019
  • SoFi's back half is made of silicone rubber and flexible plastic, while the head, which holds all the electronics, is 3D-printed.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 21 Mar. 2018
  • This is a device about the size of a thumb drive made of clear silicone rubber with two tiny hollow parallel channels cut into it that are separated by an even thinner porous membrane.
    — Wendy Moonan, Smithsonian, 27 Aug. 2019
  • The model was grown inside of silicone rubber chips the size of a stick of gum, forming channels that were responsive to fluctuating estrogen levels and bacteria.
    — Azeen Ghorayshi, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The choice of material is crucial, as silicone rubber is known for its rebound resilience — the ability to return to its original shape after compression.
    — Ellie Gabel, Discover Magazine, 27 May 2024
  • The fingertips of the gloves were made from silicone rubber for sensitivity, according to the Air and Space Museum.
    — Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 19 July 2019
  • Although the actors playing lions in the musical wear lightweight silicone rubber masks on their forehead so their faces aren’t obscured, the puppet for Puumba the warthog weighs 45 pounds.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Aug. 2022
  • The scientists embedded fiber optics that contained etches called fiber Bragg gratings into the silicone rubber patches, which were between 1 and 3 millimeters thick.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2024
  • That gap often results from silicone rubber-skin robots such as CB2, a mechatronic baby built at Osaka University, that can seem creepy.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 13 Feb. 2023
  • The team uses as a base a soft, flexible material (silicone rubber) embedded with ferromagnetic particles (a neodymium-iron-boron alloy) — little bits of stuff that react to magnetic fields.
    — Bill Andrews, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2018
  • Unfortunately, silicone rubber products strike out here, too, says Beyond Plastic’s science director Trisha Vaidyanathan.
    — Veronique Greenwood, Time, 26 June 2026
  • To achieve an actuator with high strain and high stress coupled with low density, lead author of the study Aslan Miriyev, a postdoctoral researcher in the Creative Machines lab, used a silicone rubber matrix with ethanol distributed throughout in micro-bubbles.
    — Evan Ackermanerico Guizzo, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Kun Xiao/Beijing Normal University The scientists embedded fiber optics that contained etches called fiber Bragg gratings into the silicone rubber patches, which were between 1 and 3 millimeters thick.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2024

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