How to Use microscopic in a Sentence

microscopic

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  • There is a microscopic crack in the diamond.
  • He recorded every aspect of his trip in microscopic detail.
  • He has a microscopic attention span.
  • At this point, the embryo is a microscopic clump of only 100 cells.
  • The masks offered microscopic slits in the mouths and noses to (sort of) breathe.
    — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 3 Oct. 2024
  • That’s still a microscopic drop on the bucket compared to the scale of the world’s CO2 problem.
    — Time, 28 June 2023
  • Amp them up by adding microscopic dots in shades of red and blue.
    — goodhousekeeping.com, 13 May 2023
  • All of the fungi on the WHO’s list are microscopic—still, many of them are deadly.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Oct. 2022
  • All that’s needed at this point is to run it on a strop a few times to straighten that microscopic edge.
    — Jim Cobb, Field & Stream, 3 May 2023
  • Most bacteria are microscopic, but this one is so big it can be seen with the naked eye.
    — Christina Larson, ajc, 23 June 2022
  • Larvae are microscopic and have to attach to a hard surface like a shell to grow.
    — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The market odds of a March rate reduction are now a microscopic 10%, and May has fallen to a 30% chance.
    — Robert Barone, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Though the eggs are microscopic, the authors point out that the eggs produced in a single host in the course of a year weigh roughly the same as two sugar cubes.
    — Jerome Groopman, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Enlarge / Who doesn't thrill to the sight of a microscopic cross-section of a beetle's rectum?
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 27 Dec. 2023
  • In that same two tablespoons, there can be as many species of microscopic life as there are species of birds on the planet.
    — Melina Walling, The Arizona Republic, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Basil’s essential oils live in microscopic sacs on parts of the plant.
    — Betty Cahill, The Denver Post, 11 June 2024
  • One, the trophozoite, looks like a microscopic teardrop.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Aug. 2021
  • In theory, the test is meant to determine whether air has reached the microscopic air sacs inside the lungs.
    — Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Pink Sand Beach is an apt name for the three-mile stretch that gets its signature hue from the microscopic coral insects that wash ashore.
    — Regan Stephens, Travel + Leisure, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Notice the microscopic structure of the granules of sand layered into the acrylic paint.
    — Helmuth Rosales, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Yes, these movies were the ones that introduced us to the microscopic realm that would play a part in the new villain’s ascension to power.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 Dec. 2023
  • All are vulnerable to infection by the same set of microscopic pathogens that live in the soil.
    — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 May 2023
  • And even if your skin doesn’t look like the lunar surface, dry skin is still cracking at the microscopic level.
    — Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Assuming that there is, in fact, alien life out there, most of it seems likely to be microscopic.
    — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2021
  • And there's little pores on plants that are microscopic.
    — Tonya Mosley, NPR, 6 May 2024
  • In the West Valley, Litchfield Park offers a microscopic view of that.
    — Shawn Raymundo, The Arizona Republic, 14 Aug. 2024
  • This time not by jets but a microscopic strand of genetic code.
    — Peter Kaminsky, Bon Appétit, 18 Aug. 2021
  • The prospects for an upturn in Year 2 are modest, which is better than microscopic.
    — Jon Wilner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2023
  • That would be worse than the slight stretching and microscopic tearing that would qualify as a Grade 1 sprain but not as bad as the complete tear that would qualify as a Grade 3 sprain.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2024
  • The discovery adds another odd site to a long list of places where these microscopic particles can be found.
    — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Oct. 2024

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