How to Use urea in a Sentence

urea

noun
  • Plus, what the experts say about adding urea to your skincare routine.
    — Christian Orozco, NBC news, 11 Nov. 2025
  • But making urea takes a lot of energy, which leads to hunger — in mice, at least.
    — Josh Hafner, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2017
  • Citrulline is involved in our urea cycle, or the way our body gets rid of waste via our pee.
    — Stephanie Feuer, Good Housekeeping, 5 Sep. 2017
  • One of the byproducts of burning protein is a waste product called urea.
    — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Iran was a top urea producer and exporter before the war.
    — Frank Morris, NPR, 26 Mar. 2026
  • In India, a lack of urea has made farmers fear for their livelihoods.
    — New York Times, 6 Dec. 2021
  • About one-third of global urea and one-fifth of ammonia supplies move through the strait.
    — Mohammed Sergie, semafor.com, 14 May 2026
  • If that’s the case, reach for moisturizers that contain urea.
    — Jackie Fields, PEOPLE, 30 Dec. 2025
  • This oral route gets rid of urea between 15 and 50 times faster than the kidneys.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 11 Oct. 2012
  • More than half of China’s urea exports this year have gone to India.
    — New York Times, 6 Dec. 2021
  • If ointment leaves your child feeling greasy, use a cream with glycyrrhetinic acid, urea, glycerol or oats in it.
    — Hallie Levine, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
  • The formula, rich in glycerin and pure urea, keeps skin hydrated for eight hours.
    — Annie Blackman, Allure, 29 Nov. 2024
  • If ice has already built up, use calcium chloride or urea to melt the dam, not rock salt, experts say.
    — Detroit Free Press, 23 Feb. 2021
  • Mammals excrete their nitrogenous waste as urea in pee, but birds excrete it as uric acid in a sticky white paste.
    — David Treuer, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
  • It’s enriched with urea, an AHA that hydrates dry skin and smooths out bumps and scales.
    — Lacey Muinos, Health, 18 July 2023
  • That’s because the urea present in urine degrades into ammonia.
    — Nala Rogers, Discover Magazine, 1 July 2019
  • Now that the passage is blocked, urea prices are up 50% since the war and ammonia 20%.
    — Paul Wiseman, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Now that the passage is blocked, urea prices are up 50% since the war and ammonia 20%.
    — ABC News, 28 Mar. 2026
  • The meat of the Greenland shark has toxically high levels of urea.
    — The Economist, 9 Jan. 2020
  • Via urine, our kidneys remove extra water, salt and urea, formed when our bodies break down protein.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Apr. 2021
  • Urea cycle disorder prevents the removal of protein waste from the body.
    — Max Londberg, kansascity, 16 Aug. 2017
  • Instead, the urea’s nitrogen is retained in the body and used to make amino acids, the building blocks of proteins.
    — Matthew Regan, The Conversation, 27 Jan. 2022
  • This body cream also has 20% urea to clear away dead skin cells and keratin, while glycerin moisturizes.
    — Celia Shatzman, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Key fertilizer products like urea and ammonia have risen in price since the war began.
    — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 27 Mar. 2026
  • The sample cylinders made with urea and naphthalene could hold the heavy weights and retain a mostly stable shape.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 31 Mar. 2020
  • By swallowing their urea-carrying saliva, cows send it to their stomach and keep their microbes alive.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 11 Oct. 2012
  • The filter would keep salt levels low and pull out compounds found in urine like urea, uric acid, ammonia, and calcium.
    — Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 15 July 2024
  • The combination of urea and shea butter deeply hydrates while helping smooth texture over time.
    — Corein Carter, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • The price of food is going to go way up because Big Ag is so dependent on these urea and potash supplies.
    — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Mar. 2022
  • There's a material called urea, which is used for fertilizer.
    — Zulekha Nathoo, USA Today, 20 Mar. 2026

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