How to Use extruder in a Sentence

extruder

noun

• There’s also an extruder tool for kids to design the ponies’ manes and tails.
  — Laura Lu, Parents, 9 Sep. 2024
• The extruder gears and rods are made from hardened steel, which resists wear.
  — PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
• The speed and the shape of the extruder help determine the hardness of the ice.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 11 May 2023
• Then the plastic goes through an extruder machine, which spins and pulls it like taffy to turn it into yarn.
  — Medea Giordano, WIRED, 24 Jan. 2023
• The team fed the paste into an extruder that pressed it into a preformed mold with shapes such as a disc or tiny gear.
  — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 8 Apr. 2021
• An extruder then melts the plastic to produce the final pellets.
  — Victoria Malloy, TIME, 27 Nov. 2024
• In setting, put a spool of filament on the holder, and feed it into the extruder.
  — PCMAG, 30 Apr. 2024
• The flake is melted in an extruder – almost like chocolate in a double boiler.
  — Erik Matuszewski, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2024
• Settle onto the end of a long wooden lever to press dough through the extruder and into a pot of boiling water.
  — Chantha Nguon, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Feb. 2024
• Just open a spring latch on the extruder (hot end) and pull the current hot end out, inserting the replacement in its place.
  — PC Magazine, 5 Apr. 2025
• The extruder melted thousands of tiny black pellets into a viscous goo.
  — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2024
• Not so with the Philips, although this is nearly universal for extruders.
  — Alexis Berger, Bon Appetit Magazine, 9 May 2025
• Then, too, it was not made with an ordinary food extruder, like most meat substitutes on the market today.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2018
• While the extruder machine spits out roasts, workers spot-check uncooked roasts to make sure the ratio of masa to stuffing is correct.
  — Lee Powell, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
• After bourbon ball dough is mixed in a giant mixer, it's fed into an extruder, which cuts it with a wire into perfect spheres.
  — Dahlia Ghabour, The Courier-Journal, 7 Feb. 2022
• Smaller extruders offer control but struggle to scale.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 22 Jan. 2026
• Everything was easy to clean except for the penne extruder, which required some extra attention.
  — Michelle Love, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Sep. 2023
• Manufacturers take wood pulp, dissolve it in a chemical solvent, then push it through an extruder to form the fibers.
  — Lexie Sachs, Good Housekeeping, 12 Aug. 2022
• Workers in another, equally hot room fed the shreds into an extruder, which pumped out little gray pellets known as nurdles.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• Electric extruders operate by extruding the pasta dough from a dough chamber and then kneading and cutting the pasta on its own.
  — Michelle Love, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Sep. 2023
• Both models share the same extruder, heat bed, acceleration, and filament flow.
  — PC Magazine, 15 Aug. 2025
• Every component, from the extruder to the airflow system, feels designed for real-world use rather than demonstration.
  — PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
• Large extruders push high volumes of material but add weight and reduce accuracy.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 22 Jan. 2026
• In the same vein as a Play-Doh hair salon toy, an extruder works by using an auger tool to push the dough through one of the interchangeable shaping disks.
  — Alexis Berger, Bon Appetit Magazine, 9 May 2025
• The only change for filament makers would be the addition of a hopper that can dispense the chemistry into an existing extruder.
  — Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
• The system shreds plastic bottles into strips that are fed into an extruder, which melts them into strands that can be reused as filament in 3D printers.
  — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 July 2022
• Food extruders, which have been producing breakfast cereals, pasta, snacks, and pet foods for decades, use high pressures and temperatures to squeeze a doughy mixture through a tube.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2018
• Users can activate or deactivate extruders as needed.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 22 Jan. 2026
• This mixture is pushed through an extruder to form tiny, sprinkle-like cylinders, which are then tumbled in a rapidly spinning chamber to round them into near-spherical particles.
  — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 July 2026
• The enclosed chamber offers very good heat regulation with an extruder fan, a part-cooling fan, an auxiliary part-cooling fan, and a fan to regulate the chamber.
  — PC Magazine, 15 Aug. 2025