How to Use osmosis in a Sentence

osmosis

noun
Definition of osmosisnext
  • That’s kind of sunk in, even in a non-conscious way, sort of by osmosis.
    — Taylor Weatherby, Billboard, 27 Sep. 2019
  • With unglazed red clay pots, the water may even seep in through the outer walls by osmosis.
    — Maureen Gilmer, idahostatesman, 28 Feb. 2018
  • Natasha Broxton learned the ins and out of the recycling business by osmosis.
    — La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 18 Nov. 2022
  • At the time, I was told a brine works through osmosis, an explanation that didn’t make much sense.
    — J. Kenji López-Alt, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Soon the recycled air in the house begins to shift, an osmosis from cool to warm to unbearably hot.
    — Hurmat Kazmi, The Atlantic, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Some say the trading floor is the last bastion of Wall Street, where interns and young employees learn by osmosis.
    — David Benoit, WSJ, 6 July 2021
  • Now, no kids develop the habit, even if only from osmosis, of watching and listening to the Dodgers.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Eventually, much of life is learned through the osmosis of what feels right — patterns that become ingrained in our brains and hard to change.
    — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Any mentorship that is passed down seeps through like osmosis.
    — Sopan Deb, New York Times, 5 May 2017
  • Steve had brought along Rigby, who found plenty to interest a young Labrador as if by osmosis.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 8 May 2021
  • Its as if he was somehow supposed to absorb all of Brady's genius through osmosis.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Yet somehow, the city’s sounds were already somewhere within him, as if through osmosis.
    — Joe Coscarelli, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2022
  • The other thing is that soccer’s brain center is in Europe and there’s just less osmosis with ideas than there were in American sports.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 3 Jan. 2023
  • However, the amount of PET was dwarfed by the amount of polyamides, a form of nylon used in the reverse osmosis filters that water is run through before bottling.
    — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Her school aims to help others who don’t grow up learning etiquette by osmosis avoid missteps.
    — Callum Borchers, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2022
  • People learn to be racists, Jacobs-Jenkins argues, by some sort of osmosis.
    — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Bernstein was thrilled to feel a part of these events by osmosis, as those in a newsroom do, even if his role was mostly taking dictation from reporters in the field.
    — New York Times, 5 Jan. 2022
  • This is where the reverse osmosis (RO) system plays an important role.
    — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Reverse osmosis systems are ideal for running water from the tap or fresh water sources from streams and rivers.
    — Kayla Hui, Health.com, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Salt adds flavor and pulls moisture into the meat through the processes of osmosis and diffusion.
    — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Any kind of lackadaisical approach or assumption that the brand will by osmosis stay in favor is a fool’s gambit.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
  • As for the ability to learn through osmosis and make connections with higher-ups, the office still can’t be beat, Sutherland-Wong admits.
    — Jane Thier, Fortune, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Another option is to use salt pellets in the brine tank, but then install a reverse-osmosis water filter at the kitchen sink.
    — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 4 July 2019
  • Before long, a natural process of osmosis occurred, as Cuban artists soaked up those influences and started to use them in their own work.
    — Elias Leight, Rolling Stone, 4 June 2021
  • The process of moving water across a semipermeable membrane is called osmosis.
    — Svenja Lohner, Scientific American, 9 Jan. 2020
  • Through osmosis, the flavorful brine is absorbed into the meat, thereby seasoning it through and through.
    — Sherry Rujikarn and Catherine Lo, Good Housekeeping, 30 Sep. 2020
  • The water flows through filters and is pushed by high-pressure pumps, passing through thousands of reverse-osmosis membranes.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Flushed with success, Dr Zhang is now turning his attention to the reverse-osmosis membranes.
    — The Economist, 3 May 2018
  • The royal brothers, William and Harry, sense their mother’s sadness by osmosis.
    — Thelma Adams, Variety, 16 Dec. 2021
  • There’s an element of osmosis at play, coaches say, a knack for absorbing the game from having high-level players at home.
    — Brett Dawson, The Courier-Journal, 12 Aug. 2022

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