How to Use diffusion in a Sentence

diffusion

noun

• But in the case of the bismuth crystal, there is no diffusion.
  — Quanta Magazine, 10 Aug. 2021
• The solid anchors the scent to the skin, while the spray adds lift and diffusion.
  — Jenifer Calle, Glamour, 25 Feb. 2026
• Glacier melt leads to the diffusion of toxic heavy metals.
  — Michael Robbins, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
• Root diffusion is key, and overall contrast should stay soft.
  — Amanda Le, InStyle, 24 May 2026
• Kinder, like Gimbel, stressed that diffusion takes time.
  — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025
• Then there’s Peg, who arrives in a bomb-diffusion suit and sets down a ticking bomb.
  — Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
• The test compared active flow cells to those with passive diffusion.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
• And the diffusion makes the air a bit more gentle on your hair, leaving behind less damage.
  — Louryn Strampe, WIRED, 11 Dec. 2024
• How cells make sense of these diffusion gradients has always been a mystery.
  — Jordana Cepelewicz, WIRED, 24 Mar. 2019
• That diffusion will take time — a crucial point missing from most of the current debate.
  — Omar Abbosh, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2026
• And that is why the geographic diffusion of tech will change the industry at its very core.
  — Steve Case, WSJ, 13 July 2021
• This would aid the diffusion of new ideas and create an incentive for struggling places to help themselves.
  — The Economist, 21 Oct. 2017
• Lighting plots drawn by diffusion models?
  — Seth Yudof, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2025
• That moment of diffusion from Broderick seems to have set the whole movie in motion.
  — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 24 Feb. 2026
• The currents create pores in the embryos, and the gene editing agent enters by diffusion.
  — Sammy Caiola, sacbee.com, 22 May 2017
• In fact, some researchers believe that the entire system works by way of passive diffusion.
  — Veronique Greenwood, Quanta Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
• One reason that QAnon is so hard to track is its diffusion across so many online platforms.
  — Gianluca Mezzofiore, Katie Polglase and Tim Lister, CNN, 7 Oct. 2020
• The diffusion model result is based on what the diffusion model has learned, too.
  — John Werner, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
• And there’d be no diffusion and none of that in Buffalo, for example.
  — Mark Hughes, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
• Our perception of diffusion has to do with the coarseness of our measurements.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 7 July 2011
• The system compares the rate of signal decay in the tissue with the diffusion of blood in the tissues.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 5 Mar. 2025
• Meanwhile, a diffusion model learned the finer details like small eddies and flows.
  — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 21 Apr. 2026
• The diffusion index in the jobs report gauges the concentration of growth.
  — Jason Ma, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2025
• Krige told me that scholars had to consider whether certain kinds of knowledge diffusion ought to be deterred.
  — The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2022
• Is Erlanger the first bride whose wedding has spawned multiple diffusion lines?
  — Mattie Kahn, Town & Country, 7 Aug. 2022
• The first person in the social diffusion chain told the next person about the articles, the second told the third, and so on.
  — Filippo Menczer, Scientific American, 20 Nov. 2020
• Chavarria has also decided to launch a diffusion line called Big Willy as of this show.
  — José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 23 Jan. 2026
• This had the effect of making the water more viscous, which slowed the diffusion of the activator.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 5 May 2018
• Get the diffusion by airbrushing on the white, or using a clean makeup sponge to blend the two colors while the polishes are wet.
  — Taylor Augustin Littlejohn, InStyle, 30 Dec. 2025
• One oil plug is included with the diffuser, so all that's required of you is to plug it in and enjoy instant diffusions in your home.
  — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Nov. 2024