How to Use methyl in a Sentence

methyl

noun

• White wanted to find a way to add a methyl group at the end of the drug building process.
  — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 16 Mar. 2020
• One of the best studied is a molecular cap called a methyl group.
  — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2018
• The tank car may have held a flammable liquid in it called methyl isobutyl ketone, used as a solvent.
  — Doha Madani, NBC News, 10 Sep. 2019
• The oil inside the gland is identical to that found on the skin and is a mixture of methyl esters.
  — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 10 Aug. 2016
• Methanol is known as methyl or wood alcohol and is extremely toxic.
  — Harold McGee, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2020
• Some have additives in the form of cobalt chloride or methyl violet.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Dec. 2020
• The outside of the spools are coated in molecules called methyl markers.
  — Nick Stockton, Wired News, 12 May 2015
• So methylation turns genes off, while demethylation (the removal of that same methyl group) turns them on.
  — Bárbara Pinho, Discover Magazine, 17 Feb. 2021
• The second tested the effects of spraying methyl anthranilate around the bait box.
  — Stephen Ornes, The Atlantic, 15 May 2021
• The results showed that hives treated with mixtures containing methyl oleate were far less likely to rear new queens.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025
• Citric acid, methyl cellulose and polysorbate 60 also show up in some milks.
  — Jolene Thym, The Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2017
• Most could pick up the smell of methyl mercaptan, a sulfur compound released as our guts digest the vegetable.
  — Thomas Goetz, WIRED, 17 Nov. 2007
• Throughout the piece, Kennedy confused and conflated ethyl and methyl mercury.
  — Michael Specter, The New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2017
• Healthy cells that still have their MGMT gene intact will simply pluck the methyl group back off.
  — Isabella Backman, Hartford Courant, 27 Jan. 2026
• In this recent work, her lab generated an enzyme that can biodegrade volatile methyl siloxanes.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 5 Feb. 2024
• The methyl group acts like a tiny thumbtack set out on the seat the antibiotic was hoping to take, Polikanov said.
  — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2024
• It was replaced with MTBE (methyl tertiary butyl ether), an oxygenate.
  — Bob Weber, chicagotribune.com, 21 Oct. 2021
• When smooshed, the ants release a chemical from the same family of methyl ketones that gives blue cheese its distinctive funk.
  — Ashley Braun, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2018
• One common chemical plant defense is the release of the foul-tasting substance methyl jasmonate.
  — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 11 July 2017
• This product also has methyl salicylate in it, which would contribute to the effect.
  — The Editors, Marie Claire, 17 Apr. 2019
• Genes are turned on and off depending on where methyl groups attach to DNA and histones.
  — National Geographic, 28 Dec. 2022
• Caldwell used a patented hazer device that emits methyl anthranilate at precise levels.
  — Ruth Brown, idahostatesman, 8 Dec. 2017
• After all, if our methyl groups and coiling proteins were constantly shifting, depression would be the least of our problems.
  — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 12 Apr. 2023
• The formula contains kaolin and bentonite clays to help soak up oils without stripping the skin, along with a sodium methyl cocoyl taurate.
  — Sarah Y. Wu, Marie Claire, 7 Apr. 2021
• Kohoutek also marked the first direct detection of methyl cyanide, hydrogen cyanide and silicates in a comet.
  — Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Dec. 2023
• In addition, the factory had stopped using a pesticide called methyl bromide, the researchers said.
  — Fox News, 12 May 2017
• King also highlighted methyl nicotinate and tripeptide in the formula, both of which add to the product's plumping effect.
  — Sarah Hoffmann, Allure, 16 Feb. 2023
• An important way that cells turn genes on and off at the right time and place is by attaching chemical tags called methyl groups to sites that control gene activity.
  — Bob Holmes, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 May 2021
• The pathway also regulates the expression of genes (by creating methyl groups that can essentially turn genes on and off).
  — James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2017
• Hydrogen sulfide, methyl sulfides, and benzopyrrole volatiles are among the most common gases behind that odor.
  — Sabrina Talbert, Women's Health, 31 Jan. 2023