How to Use metabolism in a Sentence

metabolism

noun

• Do high-in-carbs foods prime your metabolism to pack on the pounds?
  — Sara Chodosh, Popular Science, 11 Mar. 2021
• The organelles are key to a cell’s growth and metabolism.
  — Quanta Magazine, 18 Sep. 2023
• Sleeping with too much light in the room can throw off the body's metabolism.
  — Linda Carroll, NBC News, 21 Sep. 2022
• Keisha Miller said her son is both a picky eater and has a fast metabolism.
  — Dallas News, 21 Mar. 2021
• Because of the metabolism change, a Hulk can drink all night and not get drunk.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 18 Aug. 2022
• Statins like Crestor are processed by the liver, so a slower metabolism may lead to a buildup of the drug in the body.
  — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 21 July 2022
• The hope is that this can instill a faster metabolism across VF's brands.
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2020
• One concern, Weiss said, is that the liver is involved in the metabolism of many of the treatments as well as of cannabis.
  — NBC News, 6 Oct. 2021
• Part of the weight gain is due to aging and the slowing of metabolism and loss of muscle mass that comes with aging.
  — Katia Hetter, CNN, 30 Oct. 2024
• Your metabolism is such a small part of the equation of: calories in, calories out.
  — Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 1 Feb. 2022
• The drug is meant to lower levels of a hormone called IGF-1, which is involved in growth and metabolism and has been linked to dog size.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 28 Nov. 2023
• The new method may offer a more direct route to metabolism.
  — Gretchen Vogel, Science | AAAS, 8 Oct. 2019
• But water temperatures in the 30s and low 40s leave metabolism rates low and fish nibbling at the ends of worms and crawlers.
  — Will Ryan, Field & Stream, 5 July 2023
• To hold him off, Petit-Frere needed a way to beat his own metabolism.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 5 Nov. 2020
• They are believed to suppress the blood supply and metabolism of the tumor cells.
  — Elizabeth Landau, CNN, 23 Aug. 2019
• This may also help speed up the metabolism and balance body weight.
  — Veronica Cristino, Vogue, 4 May 2024
• Seeds in such states take up water, which revs up their metabolism.
  — Katarina Zimmer, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2025
• But what about eating breakfast and then small meals throughout the day to keep the body’s metabolism running?
  — Mckale Montgomery, The Conversation, 19 May 2022
• Be sure to properly warm up and cool down to prevent rapid changes in your body’s metabolism.
  — Anne R. Crecelius, The Conversation, 29 Dec. 2020
• Stress and fear create a spike in hormones that slow your metabolism.
  — Stephanie Emma Pfeffer, PEOPLE.com, 14 May 2021
• Several of those genes play a role in lipid metabolism too.
  — Katie Mogg, NBC News, 5 Oct. 2023
• This hormone plays a key role in cell repair and metabolism.
  — Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 11 Mar. 2024
• The metabolism slows, which is why some people can eat very little and hardly lose any weight.
  — Kate Siber, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2022
• The hours spent fasting change the body's metabolism in multiple ways, so that excess weight is lost over time.
  — cleveland.com, 2 Sep. 2019
• Biotin is integral to a dog's health and aids cell growth and metabolism.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 16 Feb. 2024
• Any too-good-to-be-true claims (like freezing away fat and transforming metabolism) are just that.
  — Addison Aloian, Women's Health, 7 July 2023
• If they’re born that way and that’s what their metabolism is, wonderful.
  — New York Times, 16 Feb. 2022
• It is emitted by phytoplankton in the Earth's oceans as part of their metabolism process.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 16 Jan. 2024
• That shift slows metabolism and changes body composition, which, Salas-Whalen stressed, is more important than weight alone.
  — Emily Cegielski, Flow Space, 14 June 2025
• According to the researchers, caffeine passed from mother to baby—either during pregnancy or through breast milk—may offer early protection that fades as the baby's metabolism speeds up.
  — Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 June 2025