How to Use organic in a Sentence

organic

1 of 2 adjective
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  • This neighborhood is an organic part of the city.
  • He thinks of the city not as a collection of different neighborhoods but as an organic whole.
  • So there’s a lot of pressure to make that video good and organic, and to perform well for them.
    — Jodie Valade, Charlotte Observer, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The wooden slats and straight edges give a modern organic look to these chairs.
    — Erica Reagle, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 July 2023
  • Right now, this organic cotton bag is on sale for a mere $33, so don't wait on adding it to your cart.
    — Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Eat organic, unless the food came from more than a hundred miles away.
    — Alison Myers, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Add organic matter such as compost and worm castings to the hole.
    — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Nov. 2023
  • For the new house, a Colonial in Brookside, Colleen wanted an open space that felt more organic.
    — Judy Revenaugh, Kansas City Star, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The denim was organic, the polyester and viscose were recycled, the bags were vintage.
    — Tara Gonzalez, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 June 2023
  • In the scientific terms there are two types of these tiny bits of organic matter.
    — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Charred bone starts to lose its organic matter but will sometimes yield DNA.
    — Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Made of 100 percent organic, long-staple cotton, these sheets feel dense, silky, and pleasant to the touch.
    — Sharon Brandwein, Southern Living, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The test results showed that my arsenic level was high at 20 mcg/L, and it was thought to be organic, caused by eating fish.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 26 May 2023
  • Draw organic shapes such as leaves, berries, and flowers, filling the surface with designs.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Much of her success can be attributed to Scott’s organic process.
    — Essence, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Or just breathe, bathe, swim, and consume Adrère Amellal’s splendid organic meals—served at night by the light of hundreds of candles.
    — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 18 June 2023
  • People will see that organic part of RBD, but in a more elevated way.
    — Leila Cobo, Billboard, 31 Aug. 2023
  • This color is likely due to the presence of organic compounds called tholins on its surface.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 9 May 2023
  • The organic cambric cotton shell has a tight weave, and our tester observed no down or feathers poking through.
    — Maria V. Charbonneaux, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 June 2023
  • Of course, no trip to Tuscany is complete without an organic wine or olive oil tasting.
    — Katie Jackson, Robb Report, 12 Apr. 2024
  • The pasture and grazing are managed to return nutrients and organic matter to the soil.
    — Paul Winters, Discover Magazine, 16 Mar. 2024
  • Ryme packaged the wine, a 2019 organic vermentino, as a sort of back-to-school kit for adults who might be daunted by the prospect of remote schooling and working from home.
    — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 4 May 2023
  • The tools were individually wrapped in the 1960s, preserving the organic substances in the very old glue.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Pricing and the mix of products sold lifted revenue by 11%, while organic sales volumes slid 2.5%.
    — WSJ, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Mulchers use semi-blunt blades that spin on a drum to shred small, soft organic material like leaves and small twigs into fine pieces.
    — James Fitzgerald, Popular Mechanics, 11 May 2023
  • But the trade-off is a sharpened sense of the organic relationship between art and its social context.
    — Charlotte Observer, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Access to capital and markets still holds back small-scale organic growers in the area, said Cardona.
    — The Arizona Republic, 9 Mar. 2024
  • There are a number of organic market vendors and at least one food truck that has featured organic foods.
    — Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Apr. 2024
  • There’s a stuck dust cover on an important instrument that helps the rover search for organic compounds.
    — Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Made to mimic the design of a woven basket, this faux pumpkin would look right at home in a modern organic or modern farmhouse home.
    — Erica Reagle, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Oct. 2023
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organic

2 of 2 noun
  • In the past the advice was to fill with good compost or soil full of organics.
    — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The metal and non-organics found in a person’s body are screened out.
    — Saja Hindi, The Denver Post, 16 Dec. 2019
  • These have information about the salt content of the ocean and some of the organics that are present there.
    — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2018
  • And, adding organics — kelp is great — and microbes to your soil will make the pool that can be utilized by the plant much greater.
    — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The poisons, traps, organics and predator pee don't stop them for long.
    — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2019
  • The bad news, McKay said, is that all missions to Mars have tried to find organics using this heat method.
    — Ashley May, USA TODAY, 12 July 2018
  • And the Lana record and Folklore are very different kinds of organic than this Bleachers rec-ord.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 16 June 2021
  • In terms of textiles, the term organic refers to how the material is grown and treated from start to finish.
    — Jamie Weissman, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 June 2023
  • Outside sources of organics were a concern during the study.
    — National Geographic, 10 Apr. 2017
  • The sediments around the wood are dark in color and full of organics (roots, small pieces of wood, seeds, and pollen) are all remarking well-preserved.
    — Ben Raines | [email protected], AL.com, 28 July 2017
  • Trumbo, in particular, would like to search for any organics that might have spilled onto the surface along with the salt.
    — Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 12 June 2019
  • If the goal is to more responsibly handle their trash, their recycling, their organics down the road, the city is going to have to be involved in the process.
    — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 12 Oct. 2019
  • Reynoso is working to get mandatory organics recycling passed by the City Council before the end of the year.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2020
  • The Stardust recovery mission found organics and glycine - one of the simplest amino acids.
    — Jamie Seidel, Fox News, 28 June 2018
  • Society at large has overcome the duality of the analog and the digital, by means of the organic.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022
  • But the nomination is impressive enough on its own — a sign that Black Pumas’ organic, word-of-mouth rise has hit the wider industry radar.
    — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 19 Jan. 2020
  • But food is a sluggish, low-margin sector, and even once-hot categories like organics have slowed.
    — Matthew Boyle, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2020
  • Cleary said new contracts signed by all the haulers give them some discretion about how to handle organics recycling.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The body is then covered with the remaining organics needed for compost and is left to turn into soil, lasting roughly 30 days or less.
    — Kira Mautone, Fox News, 18 Feb. 2023
  • While organics have a niche in the cities, in the countryside the agro-industrial model has recovered with the economy, Díaz said.
    — Bill Weinberg, miamiherald, 22 June 2017
  • Creating all-new routes just to fetch organics would be expensive and snarl traffic.
    — Emily S. Rueb, New York Times, 2 June 2017
  • The agency detected volatile organics in the air, but not at dangerous levels.
    — Cameron Knight, Cincinnati.com, 12 Dec. 2018
  • Costco is bullish on organics, and the majority of its in-house brands, labeled Kirkland, are produced by some of the country’s most well-known food makers.
    — Michael Easter, Outside Online, 31 May 2018
  • For years, farmers have turned to organics to get paid more for their products without as many price fluctuations.
    — Rick Barrett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2018
  • Then the scientists sifted through the results to figure out what might be genuine Martian organics.
    — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 7 June 2018
  • The shop composts any extra food scraps such as egg shells through a voluntary organics collection program in Union City.
    — Joseph Geha, The Mercury News, 26 Apr. 2017
  • Sulfur may have helped protect the organics even when the rocks were exposed at the surface to radiation and bleach-like substances called perchlorates.
    — National Geographic, 7 June 2018
  • This red was a go-to up until organics were largely replaced by synthetic pigments in the 19th century.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Plus, hydrogen and small organics may have also provided food for Earth’s earliest inhabitants.
    — Quanta Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Beyond organics like fats, oil, grease and proteins, ZwitterCo is working on reverse osmosis membranes to remove salts, heavy metals, chemicals and nutrients (hence the Innovation Center).
    — Jeff Kart, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023

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