How to Use vesicle in a Sentence

vesicle

noun
Definition of vesiclenext
  • The team will next attempt to isolate the bead-like vesicles to learn a bit more about them.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 17 July 2019
  • If the vesicles come from the host ants, the contents could be an immune response of some kind.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 17 July 2019
  • A doctor used a scalpel and a quill to take fluid from smallpox vesicles on the skin of a person in the throes of the disease.
    — Stephen Coss, Smithsonian, 24 Aug. 2017
  • But that’s just the preview: When the fruit is cut in half, the pearlescent juice vesicles ooze out like mini eruptions.
    — Earl Nickel, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Apr. 2018
  • These lipids are the perfect size to fit within the vesicles of that ceramic fabric.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian, 26 Sep. 2019
  • A foot-long oval split down the middle, and each half is full of little capsules like the vesicles in an orange segment.
    — Neil Ever Osborne, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
  • The chemicals are enclosed in tiny vesicles called exosomes that the cells shed.
    — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 29 Aug. 2017
  • In the latter case, the vesicles contain dopamine, not protein aggregates.
    — James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2017
  • Next, the acrosome, a vesicle inside the sperm cell’s head, fuses with the outer layer of the egg, igniting the release of enzymes that ease the route inside.
    — Randi Hutter Epstein, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
  • Instead, Rizo-Rey uses Frontera to make a model of the millions of atoms that make up a vesicle, the edge of a brain cell and the key proteins involved in fusion.
    — Dallas News, 14 July 2022
  • Virus replication occurs in a special compartment walled off from the rest of the cell by a double membrane vesicle.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2021
  • But the real surprise comes in the tasting: The tart vesicles pop on the tongue, again like caviar, exploding flavor that gourmets have described as intense lemon and lime with herbaceous notes.
    — Earl Nickel, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Apr. 2018
  • The vesicles are popular in cocktails, as condiments, garnishes, and as an accent to fish.
    — Nan Sterman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 31 May 2018
  • When the synapsin is phosphorylated, the droplet rapidly dissipates and the vesicles are freed to spill the neurotransmitters into the synapse.
    — Quanta Magazine, 26 Nov. 2018
  • However, if your child is not vaccinated yet, varicella will appear as a red bump that will progress over the course of few hours into a vesicle that will then dry and form a crust.
    — Gabriela Moraru, M.d., miamiherald, 1 May 2018
  • Unlike the teardrop sacs in regular citrus, the finger lime’s greenish-white or pinkish vesicles are round and firm and do indeed resemble caviar.
    — Earl Nickel, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Apr. 2018
  • The Orf1a proteins are required for the formation of the double-membrane vesicle necessary for virus replication.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2021
  • And when the researchers prevented astrocytes from using vesicles, the cells could no longer release glutamate.
    — Laura Dattaro, Quanta Magazine, 18 Oct. 2023
  • This protein is involved in the formation of the structure of the double-membrane vesicle replication compartment.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 11 July 2022
  • If your partner has prostate surgery, the prostate and seminal vesicle, both of which produce the fluid which help the sperm navigate the ejaculatory duct, are often removed, Dr. Chapin says.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 21 July 2017
  • Some of them even worked inside fatty acid vesicles, a laboratory stand-in for protocells.
    — Roland Pease, Science | AAAS, 12 July 2017
  • Chickenpox is easily recognized because the skin around the vesicles is normal.
    — Parents Editors, Parents, 3 Sep. 2023
  • This membrane will expand into a vesicle, or sac, known as an autophagosome, that engulfs the damaged material.
    — Justin Quiles, The Conversation, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Astrocytes in one — and only one — of the clusters transcribed proteins known to be involved in neurotransmitter storage, release and transport using vesicles, as occurs in neurons.
    — Laura Dattaro, Quanta Magazine, 18 Oct. 2023
  • The saltwater environment was also beneficial, as the fat molecules formed a stronger, more stable vesicle, or structure.
    — Fox News, 5 Nov. 2019
  • The formation of the double-membrane vesicle within which viral replication and transcription occur (Figure 4).
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 4 June 2021
  • The key objectives are ensuring that vesicle isolates are free from harmful contaminants and have a consistent set of functional properties.
    — Michael Eisenstein, Scientific American, 17 June 2020
  • Once completed, connexins are then pinched off into vesicles (shown as a sphere) that carry them to the membrane of the nearby Golgi apparatus, where additional processing of membrane proteins occurs.
    — Karen Hopkin, Scientific American, 1 May 2015
  • Researchers also found that some cells produced membrane vesicles, which allow cells to communicate with one another—potentially to initiate the infection process.
    — Hannah Osborne, Newsweek, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Another route to control vesicle content is to force their formation through physical or chemical manipulation of cells.
    — Amanda B. Keener, Scientific American, 17 June 2020

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'vesicle.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: