How to Use transpiration in a Sentence

transpiration

noun
  • On hot, windy days, lawns lose a lot of water through transpiration.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Plants cool air around them through transpiration and their leaves block heat from the sun, as well as absorbing noise.
    — Anna Pujol-Mazzini, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Aug. 2017
  • But the government's do not want to do that, but still want to fund public transpiration.
    — George Davis, Baltimore Sun, 18 May 2022
  • Sap flow increases when leaves begin to form as water is pulled up the tree by transpiration.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Corn sweat is the release of water from plant leaves into the air, also known as transpiration.
    — Andy Newman, New York Times, 21 July 2016
  • Evergreens lose water through their leaves in a process called transpiration.
    — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 13 Nov. 2022
  • Trees also cool the air through transpiration — a process where water vapor is emitted by a tree’s leaves.
    — Kimberly Miller, sun-sentinel.com, 14 Nov. 2019
  • When the air is warm and dry, transpiration and evaporation also suck water out of the plants and soil.
    — CBS News, 10 Jan. 2025
  • In a process called transpiration, plants release water vapor from small pores on the underside of their leaves.
    — Ilima Loomis, Science | AAAS, 4 Aug. 2017
  • The stomata, which are minute openings on the underside of rose leaves, cool the plant in a process called transpiration.
    — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2022
  • Plants draw water up through their roots and release water vapor into the air through their leaves, a process called transpiration.
    — Antonia Hadjimichael, The Conversation, 10 Nov. 2022
  • The plants that produced the most transpiration were those that were under the fluorescent light.
    — Pioneer Press, chicagotribune.com, 9 Aug. 2017
  • Through a process called transpiration, plants release water vapor from pores along the underside of their leaves.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 29 Dec. 2021
  • If the lawn grass is brown, there is much less of the movement of water through the plant (transpiration) and the nitrogen is not taken up.
    — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 26 Sep. 2019
  • Inside, plants add moisture to the air through transpiration and thus increase humidity, which will help cool the air as well.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 15 June 2026
  • Its trees discharge water into the atmosphere through their stems, leaves and flowers through a process called transpiration.
    — Gabriela Sá Pessoa and Kasha Patel, Anchorage Daily News, 8 July 2022
  • Some of it is used in photosynthesis, but much of it is lost through evaporation and transpiration through the leaves and stems.
    — Henry Fountain, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2016
  • The reason for this is that when the atmosphere warms, most leaves cool themselves by releasing water — a process called transpiration.
    — Dorany Pineda, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Plants release water into the atmosphere through a process called transpiration.
    — Christina Nunez, National Geographic, 15 May 2019
  • The air gets naturally cooled through active transpiration happening in all the leaves.
    — Markis Hill, Kansas City Star, 13 May 2025
  • Wilting is the natural reaction of a plant to heat, when its roots can’t keep up with transpiration in the leaves in high temperatures.
    — Dallas News, 7 July 2022
  • That process, called transpiration, creates tension within the tree’s water columns.
    — Thayer Walker, Scientific American, 29 Dec. 2016
  • This allows a higher rate of transpiration as the water and nutrients move through the plant's vascular system.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 9 Oct. 2025
  • This allows a higher rate of transpiration as the water and nutrients move through the plant's vascular system.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 24 Jan. 2025
  • When something interferes with the plant's transpiration process — as in, when the plant doesn't have enough water to release, the plant undergoes heat stress.
    — London Gibson, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Aug. 2021
  • Those include faster melting of snowpack and more evaporation and transpiration, which is water released through the leaves of plants.
    — Carolyn Wilke, sacbee, 19 July 2017
  • Filtering the sun helps the soil retain moisture and shield farmworkers from harsh rays, while lower transpiration means less water is needed for crops.
    — Naoki Nitta, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Jan. 2023
  • This can be problematic in winter if the ground is frozen because their roots are unable to supply the plant with moisture to compensate for the transpiration.
    — Luke Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Some water is also taken up by plants before evaporating into the atmosphere, a process known as transpiration.
    — Denise Chow, NBC News, 25 Feb. 2024
  • These pores also release water via transpiration, which circulates nutrients through the plant and helps cool it by evaporation.
    — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Scientific American, 12 Apr. 2018

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