filament

Example Sentences

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But when their characteristic wire filaments glow, much of the electricity they draw escapes as heat — a process that, while once a technological marvel, makes them modern-day energy hogs.

From Washington Post

“This is the gold,” Simard said, as she crumbled the soil in her hands, and teased apart filaments within it, finer than a human hair.

From Seattle Times

So the 10-armed S. bideni shows that all cephalopods once had 10 arms, before they were reduced to filaments and ultimately lost.

From Seattle Times

Cherries glow bright red inside clear jars, filaments burn with intense white light, and sunbeams scatter through glass as if refracted through a prism.

From Washington Post

They might also look for microscopic preservation of parts of cells themselves" such as little filaments and little rods and balls that would actually reflect their former cells."

From Salon