How to Use agar in a Sentence

agar

noun

• To make agar gel, whisk cold water and agar together in saucepan.
  — Molly Kimball, NOLA.com, 29 Aug. 2017
• Then, Baym added agar, which is both food and habitat for microbes.
  — Rob Dunn, Wired, 6 Jan. 2022
• In a small saucepan, add almond milk, agar agar powder and sugar and whisk.
  — NBC News, 23 June 2019
• Oud comes from the resin of certain agar trees that are infected with a type of mold.
  — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Nov. 2022
• Glass explained that the square was a plate of agar on which colonies of the minimal cell had been grown.
  — James Somers, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2022
• Fish swimming in a melting river of agar and red bean jellies.
  — Caroline Newton, Bon Appétit, 12 Dec. 2024
• The full pattern of agar failure that emerged is confusing, though.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 25 Sep. 2024
• Lingering spring mist created with agar and cracked mochi rice.
  — Caroline Newton, Bon Appétit, 12 Dec. 2024
• Add agar gelatin and glucose mix to the chocolate and allow to cool for 30 minutes.
  — Angelica Stabile, Fox News, 16 Dec. 2024
• In the lab, they are fed a standard diet consisting of a slurry of malt, corn meal, yeast, agar and syrup.
  — Tim Vernimmen, Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2019
• Combine gelatine in water with glucose and agar in a separate small pan.
  — Angelica Stabile, Fox News, 16 Dec. 2024
• Many of Boyd's desserts have a shiny layer on top, usually made from local produce set with agar.
  — Kathleen Purvis, charlotteobserver, 25 Apr. 2018
• But the culture technique — agar in a petri dish – is technology from 1886.
  — Sandy Bauers, Philly.com, 17 May 2018
• To make a piece of yeast art, the scientists print nanodroplets of the different yeast strains onto a large agar plate, like a pointillist canvas.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 22 May 2017
• Enlarge / Burkholderia pseudomallei grown on sheep blood agar for 24 hours.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 10 Aug. 2022
• Hesse never spoke about her role in introducing agar to the life sciences, though at least one scholarly work linked her name to agar during her lifetime.
  — Corrado Nai, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2024
• The other day, the whole lab had just 10 routine agar plates, used in screening for bacterial infections.
  — Emma Court, Bloomberg.com, 1 Sep. 2020
• Martel and Pasmans took skin samples and after 3 weeks managed to culture a fungus on substrates of agar and broth.
  — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 19 July 2017
• And in some cases, as Torres noticed on his warm agar, bacterial counts plummeted.
  — Max G. Levy, Wired, 30 Nov. 2021
• So they can be put onto agar plates individually, giving the bacteria a better shot at growing there.
  — Sarah Vitak, Scientific American, 10 Aug. 2021
• In short, do not eat mysterious agar plates in the laboratory and do not eat anything from your mother's suspicious boyfriend.
  — Sarah Zhang, Discover Magazine, 16 Apr. 2012
• The pineapple agar had a texture somewhere between gelatin and an overripe pear, rounding out the piña colada experience.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 19 Jan. 2024
• Each colony that ended up growing on the agar represented one original bacterial cell from the frosting.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 27 July 2017
• The agar was a kind of stage on which the experiment played out, where cells divided and bacteria and viruses interacted and changed each other.
  — Eve Fairbanks, The New Republic, 5 July 2018
• Seedpods are sterilized and opened to extract the seeds, which are then sowed onto an agar media in a scientific flask for germination to take place.
  — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 20 July 2017
• This gelatin substitute uses agar-agar, a product made from a seaweed that has gelling properties and is often used in Southeast Asian desserts.
  — Danielle Guercio, The Seattle Times, 17 May 2017
• Even artists that are used to more traditional media than bacteria on an agar plate could submit their favorite microbiologists.
  — Eva Amsen, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
• The studio’s bio-plastics are built from biopolymers such as agar and gelatin, with varying components used to control flexibility and translucency.
  — Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 30 Jan. 2026
• The membranes also allow biofilms to be transferred between culture media, unlike traditional agar, which destroys patterns when moved.
  — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 21 Dec. 2025
• The early pathologist added to the porcelain filter experiments with a second kind of filtration system that used a gelatin called agar to prove that no microorganisms survived the first filtration.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Mar. 2020