paramecium

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Each is a rectangle about 300 micrometers long and 200 micrometers wide, roughly the size of a paramecium.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 7, 2024

The problems that the intelligence of a paramecium faces are very different from your problems or mine.

From Salon • Dec. 6, 2021

It was rooted in the bodysuit, two curving paramecium shapes cut out at the neck and side, paired with billowing parachute-silk anoraks, or airy cargo pants, sliced open at the side.

From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2021

The book takes us from the clumsy inquisitiveness of an upstart paramecium searching for food several hundred million years ago to the restless seeking that propelled big-brained Homo sapiens into the space age.

From Nature • Jan. 27, 2020

Fadi felt like a hairy single-celled paramecium, immobilized under a microscope, squashed between two plates of glass.

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai