How to Use amoeba in a Sentence

amoeba

noun
Definition of amoebanext
  • How might the amoeba have been present at the splash pad?
    — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 28 Sep. 2021
  • This is in the same range as some of the large viruses that attack amoeba.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 13 Feb. 2020
  • This marks the third time the amoeba has been detected in the water since 2015.
    — CBS News, 13 June 2018
  • And try not to worry too much about those scary amoebas.
    — Caroline Picard, Woman's Day, 16 Feb. 2017
  • The news release explained how the amoeba affects the body.
    — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 20 Oct. 2022
  • So, the risk of having your brain dissolved by a rogue amoeba is very low.
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The amoeba isn’t found in salt water, according to the CDC.
    — Ashley R. Williams, USA TODAY, 16 July 2022
  • The amoeba is found in warm freshwater such as lakes, rivers, ponds and canals.
    — Leada Gore | [email protected], al, 6 July 2020
  • Last summer, the amoeba is believed to have caused two deaths in the Midwest.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 26 June 2023
  • Child dies of rare, brain-eating amoeba found at Texas splash pad.
    — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2021
  • The chances of contracting a brain-eating amoeba in the U.S. remain rare.
    — Fox News, 17 Sep. 2019
  • That’s where the little amoeba passes through to the skull cavity and eats your brain.
    — Marc Peruzzi, Outside Online, 25 June 2018
  • The child likely picked up the amoeba while swimming in the Elkhorn River, the department said.
    — Max Thornberry, Fox News, 18 Aug. 2022
  • The water-loving amoeba is often found in warm lakes, rivers and host springs.
    — Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2020
  • The agency did not release the age or gender of the person who died from exposure to the amoeba.
    — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The splash pad was shut down on September 8 and the city began testing its water for the amoeba.
    — Alison Medley, Houston Chronicle, 28 Sep. 2020
  • One: amoeba fronts and complex five-man blitzes on passing downs.
    — Andy Benoit, SI.com, 11 Aug. 2017
  • The episode's group date — awkward, amoeba-like dates — centered on a debate.
    — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 3 July 2018
  • From above, the appendages look like the protuberances of an amoeba.
    — Victoria Sayo Turner, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Sep. 2023
  • The amoeba often infects a person by entering the body through the nose.
    — Madison Dibble, Washington Examiner, 5 July 2020
  • Long mistaken for fungi, they are now classed as a type of amoeba.
    — Katia Moskvitch, WIRED, 14 July 2018
  • Despite the oceanic source, the virus grew nicely in fresh water amoebae.
    — Ars Technica, WIRED, 11 Oct. 2011
  • The police managed to cut one half of the group off from the other, but the two nodes had lives of their own, and continued, amoeba-like, one south and the other west.
    — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 4 June 2020
  • The paths full of the amoeba-attracting acid are colored purple, and the amoebas appear as blue ovals.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Sep. 2020
  • At some point an amoeba ate a bacterium but could not digest it.
    — Dick Teresi, Discover Magazine, 17 June 2011
  • Take the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum, which has three: Each type can mate with members of the other two.
    — Quanta Magazine, 17 July 2018
  • Deaths from the amoeba are rare, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
    — Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 12 June 2015
  • Bakari likely became infected with the rare amoeba, which enters the body through the nose, at the city-run splash pad, the agency announced.
    — Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Here's what experts think Neti pots, nasal rinsing linked to another dangerous amoeba.
    — Li Cohen, CBS News, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Research also has indicated the amoeba is common in tap water.
    — CBS News, 13 Mar. 2024

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