How to Use ciliate in a Sentence

ciliate

1 of 2 noun

• In the rumen microbiome, bacteria are essential to cow digestion, but ciliates may not be.
  — Marlowe Starling, Quanta Magazine, 27 July 2026
• Similar events elsewhere have involved parasitic ciliates in the genus ‘Philaster’.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 12 Dec. 2025
• After a final sequence of emergences and contractions, the ciliate eventually got fed up, pulled up stakes and swam away, presumably looking for a less noxious place to settle down.
  — Claire L. Evans, Quanta Magazine, 30 July 2025
• The team found that rumen ciliates with more of the hydrogen-producing structures helped generate more methane than microbes with fewer hydrogenobodies did.
  — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 30 Apr. 2026
• Scientists have long suspected that ciliates are associated with methane emissions, Yu said.
  — Marlowe Starling, Quanta Magazine, 27 July 2026
• Once inside, prey organisms — including bacteria, protozoans like ciliates and amoebae and even tiny soil mites — are subjected to conditions with very low oxygen.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 16 Jan. 2026
• In a paper published on Thursday in Science, researchers describe how hydrogenobodies in rumen ciliates in the guts of dairy cows remove oxygen and produce hydrogen—which other microbes then use to make methane.
  — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 30 Apr. 2026
• In 2021, Zhongtang Yu, a rumen microbiologist at Ohio State University, sequenced the very first rumen ciliate genome from a species called Entodinium caudatum; its genus includes roughly 90% of all ciliates in livestock rumens.
  — Marlowe Starling, Quanta Magazine, 27 July 2026

ciliate

2 of 2 adjective

• The genomes have been added to a database where any researcher can access and study the ciliate sequences.
  — Marlowe Starling, Quanta Magazine, 27 July 2026
• Fleeing, not quite leaping and clumsily sort of galloping, is no easy matter for a snail (the starfish has thousands of ciliate foot like suction cups), and fighting is pure folly versus so many arms.
  — Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026
• Each type of ciliate occupies a different niche in the rumen, the same way that lions and cheetahs have different roles as predators on the savanna, Tricarico said.
  — Marlowe Starling, Quanta Magazine, 27 July 2026
• Electron microscope images of several prominent ciliate species revealed why.
  — Marlowe Starling, Quanta Magazine, 27 July 2026
• So when the 2026 study in Science reported 450 new ciliate genome sequences, jaws dropped across the rumen microbiome community.
  — Marlowe Starling, Quanta Magazine, 27 July 2026
• The cannibalistic transformations have been well documented in other ciliate species; however, in this species, the transformation is dramatic.
  — Jay Kakade july 23, Refractor, 23 July 2026
• To identify the hydrogenobody—and confirm its role in methane production—the new study’s authors combined genetic analyses of hundreds of rumen ciliate genomes with detailed imaging of the microbes, as well as real-life methane measurements from dairy cows.
  — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 30 Apr. 2026
• In 2021, Zhongtang Yu, a rumen microbiologist at Ohio State University, sequenced the very first rumen ciliate genome from a species called Entodinium caudatum; its genus includes roughly 90% of all ciliates in livestock rumens.
  — Marlowe Starling, Quanta Magazine, 27 July 2026