How to Use microenvironment in a Sentence

microenvironment

noun

• Light changes the microenvironment inside the frame, causing swelling and contraction that ages the work very quickly.
  — David Walters, The Cut, 20 Oct. 2017
• Their presence in both habitats suggests the species occupies a range of microenvironments within its canyon home.
  — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 20 Feb. 2026
• What is the tumor microenvironment?
  — Charles J. Dimitroff, The Conversation, 12 June 2026
• This means phytoplankton can establish a microenvironment in the water around them.
  — Katherine Bourzac, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
• The livers began as stem cells that are cultivated into skin and vascular cells that form a complete microenvironment.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 3 June 2020
• Along with its many tricks to avoid detection, tumors build microenvironments around themselves that are toxic to immune cells, draining them of energy.
  — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 20 Sep. 2024
• The complex terrain creates isolated pockets of habitat — a cave system here, a rocky outcrop there — each with its own microenvironment.
  — Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 25 Feb. 2026
• These bacteria produce lactic acid, which creates an acidic microenvironment that allows only a few other bacteria and yeasts to grow.
  — ABC News, 4 Apr. 2021
• There are many different components in the microenvironment that are affected.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 Sep. 2017
• Solid tumors are more difficult to access, and are often contained in a microenvironment that dampens the body’s immune response.
  — Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2021
• When tumor cells switch to glycolic respiration, a byproduct makes the tumor microenvironment acidic.
  — David Robert Grimes, Scientific American, 1 July 2024
• That’s because the microenvironment (the area directly around the tumor) consists of molecules and blood vessels that have become tainted.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 6 Oct. 2022
• Together, these features create what scientists refer to as the tumor microenvironment, where cancer cells live and interact with the body.
  — Charles J. Dimitroff, The Conversation, 12 June 2026
• The fibers create a life-like microenvironment in which the cells can function and interact with each other just like normal cells would, while the hydrogel protects them from the body's immune response.
  — Breanna Draxler, Discover Magazine, 2 Apr. 2013
• The cells either sequester or export nitric oxide, depending on oxygen traffic between them and tissue in the microenvironment.
  — Byandrew Zaleski, science.org, 3 July 2024
• So far, these two methods have not worked as well as hoped—stem cells turn out to be difficult to manipulate, and the microenvironment of spinal-cord fluid is extremely complicated.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
• Working with the spleens of primates (macaques), the team engineered microenvironments within the test organs to support human pancreatic islets.
  — Discover Magazine, 23 May 2025
• The tumor microenvironment allows cancer to withstand an onslaught from a body’s natural immune defenses.
  — Charles J. Dimitroff, The Conversation, 12 June 2026
• The sum total of the conditions inside our bodies, called the microenvironment, plays an important though dimly understood role in regulating how our cells react.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 29 Mar. 2017
• Every valley, stream and forest, composes a microenvironment.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Oct. 2022
• This shows that although bacterial organisms come from common sources, each of the microenvironments somehow selects for distinct microbes, Gilbert said.
  — Tracy Staedter, Fox News, 30 May 2017
• The spongy structure is organized into specialized microenvironments called niches.
  — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 19 Nov. 2025
• The focus is no longer just on attacking cancer cells directly, but also navigating the tumor microenvironment in order to protect immune cells in their mission to kill cancer cells.
  — Charles J. Dimitroff, The Conversation, 12 June 2026
• AnapTh, a fluorescent amino acid, shifts its emission spectrum depending on the surrounding microenvironment.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
• The researchers found that the cities’ chemical microenvironments increase calcite dissolution.
  — Damien Pine, Scientific American, 15 May 2026
• Factors other than mutation, such as epigenetic changes (alterations in how a gene is expressed) in a primary tumor cell—or the details of its microenvironment—were more likely to blame for metastasis.
  — Jeffrey P. Townsend, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2018
• Since the tumor microenvironment can affect behavior of the tumor cells and their response to treatments, these racial differences could impact tumor biology and disease progression.
  — Philly.com, 23 Feb. 2018
• Lastly, solid tumors possess an extensively inhospitable microenvironment for the T cells.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
• One major challenge is the tumor microenvironment — a network of cells and signals surrounding a tumor that can act as a protective shield for cancer and prevent immunotherapy from working effectively.
  — Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2026
• Reprogrammed macrophages also alter the tumor microenvironment, activating other immune cells.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes.com, 7 Jan. 2026