How to Use slime mold in a Sentence

slime mold

noun
  • What about ant colonies, the root systems of trees, and slime molds?
    — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Likewise, slime mold tubes that find food grow and dead ends wither away.
    — Rachael Lallensack, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Dec. 2021
  • All the dancers now swarmed like a slime mold’s amoebas over the cars and their contents.
    — Nisi Shawl, Slate Magazine, 22 Feb. 2017
  • The spores are then dispersed to create new dog slime mold patches.
    — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2023
  • The spores are then dispersed to create new dog slime mold patches.
    — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 25 July 2021
  • Some say slime mold could be the key to more efficient self-driving cars.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Oct. 2019
  • In the lawn, Bell said, slime mold looks almost like grayish black beads.
    — oregonlive, 4 Aug. 2020
  • The mass on the ground in the photo looks like dog vomit slime mold that is starting to dry up.
    — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2023
  • In the image, a slime mold (shown in white) is engulfing a yeast cell (shown in red).
    — Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
  • The gross-looking substance known as slime mold shows up on mulch and lawns, but is harmless to plants.
    — oregonlive, 4 Aug. 2020
  • The find sparked Webb to document more of the ephemeral slime mold growths.
    — Leslie Nemo, Scientific American, 6 Jan. 2022
  • These skills let slime molds do impressively well at some human tasks.
    — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 21 May 2018
  • Different strains of the slime mold had different set points.
    — Quanta Magazine, 21 May 2020
  • What’s more, that pattern persisted long after the slime mold chowed down.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Almost overnight, a slime mold, fungus-like organism oozes up the stems and leaf blades of turf.
    — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 17 July 2021
  • The dog vomit slime mold will not harm your plants, pets or family, so there is no need to try to control it.
    — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 25 July 2021
  • Kutub Uddin spotted this line of alien-like slime molds on a fallen tree.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • The yellow slime mold Physarum polycephalum grows as a single cell that is big enough to be seen with the naked eye.
    — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 22 Jan. 2010
  • This includes powdery mildew, white and gray molds like botrytis, slime mold, and black spot, Bradley says.
    — Michelle Mastro, The Spruce, 23 May 2026
  • But for all creatures, from deep-sea microbes and slime molds to trees and humans, water is nonnegotiable.
    — Dan Samorodnitsky, Quanta Magazine, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Their presence seemed to be a consistent aspect of slime mold behavior.
    — Quanta Magazine, 21 May 2020
  • The Blob isn't an animal, plant, or fungus, but actually a slime mold.
    — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Despite lacking a brain or nervous system, slime mold can navigate a maze or recall the location of food.
    — Rachael Lallensack, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Dec. 2021
  • No — that’s just another interesting sighting called slime mold.
    — Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 17 June 2020
  • When placed in a new environment, a slime mold sends out a fractal net of oozing tendrils to explore its surroundings.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Some scientists suggest that slime mold behavior may even shed light on the origins of intelligence.
    — Eoin O'Carroll, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Apr. 2018
  • The scientists still need to definitively prove that the slime mold gains a fitness benefit from this bet-hedging strategy.
    — Quanta Magazine, 21 May 2020
  • The study’s main finding emerged from simply watching a bright yellow slime mold named Physarum polycephalum do its thing under a microscope.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Feb. 2021
  • True fungi have a cell wall and digest their food with exoenzymes before ingesting it, but dog vomit slime mold ingests its food, then digests it.
    — oregonlive, 23 May 2021
  • The slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum can exist as individual cells that eat bacteria in the soil.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 4 July 2019

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