How to Use morphology in a Sentence
morphology
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The team also used morphology, the study of the size and shape of the bones.
—Eoin McSweeney, CNN, 28 Apr. 2021
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Levin thinks all this is just the start for synthetic morphology.
—Philip Ball, Scientific American, 18 Apr. 2023
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The shape of its body and bones (what scientists call morphology)?
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 4 Dec. 2024
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Humans are trying to catch up, building planes with soft wings that mimic bat morphology.
—Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 21 June 2019
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Furthermore, these cannabis types differ from the morphology of the plant.
—Dario Sabaghi, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2021
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Don crampons, wield ice picks, and learn how glacial morphology has molded the landscape of the region.
—National Geographic, 12 June 2019
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Its morphology combines tsunde-oku (letting things pile up) and dokusho (reading books).
—Kevin Dickinson, Big Think, 28 Dec. 2022
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That morphology is quadrupedal, so DyRET moves like a dog or cat.
—Matt Simon, Wired, 15 Mar. 2021
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This is not simply a matter of grammar, of syntax and morphology.
—Louis Menand, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
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The team classified it within an aphyletic group based on its morphology.
—Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 20 Apr. 2026
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The morphology of the canine was so similar to a mega-size gray wolf that nobody thought to argue with what seemed like a sure thing.
—Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 21 Jan. 2021
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Based on its morphology, the species was classified within an aphyletic group.
—Hanna Wickes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Apr. 2026
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However, the new study found that the night side of Venus has its own distinct cloud formations and morphologies.
—Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 15 Sep. 2017
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So much of their behavior is best understood through their morphology.
—Joshua Rapp Learn, Smithsonian, 22 Oct. 2019
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Three billion years after the big bang, the morphology of our Milky Way was pretty well fixed.
—Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
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These were based on human sign language but modified for the unique morphology of a gorilla.
—Tim Brinkhof, Discover Magazine, 6 Jan. 2022
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Moreover, when the skeletons of these beasts were studied, their morphology suggested that almost all of them were male.
—The Economist, 2 Nov. 2017
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For that approach, human morphology is ideal, because all of our tools and environments are built for us.
—IEEE Spectrum, 16 May 2023
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His face shape is a drop, all his silhouette language is a drop, and so the sculpture of Wade reflected this drop morphology.
—Hugh Hart, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2023
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This lack of testing made sense, because living crocodilians have no complex tooth morphologies to analyse—so why bother?
—The Economist, 28 June 2019
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While many shark species have the same tooth morphology throughout, the Port Jackson has teeth that looks different in the front and back.
—Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes, 1 May 2022
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The animal that called the shell home, a gastropod, was long dead, but the shell’s morphology was enough to identify the creature as a new species.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 3 Jan. 2025
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That said, researchers of the new study did not find any association between cell phone use on motility and morphology.
—Kaitlin Vogel, Health, 17 Nov. 2023
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By contrast, the northern half appears to be relatively calm with a less complex morphology.
—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 23 Jan. 2025
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And this wax, Serrulla, helped conserve the external morphology of the brains.
—Julia Jones, CNN, 14 July 2017
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The cyanotypes are able to convey both the scale of the objects and the morphology and the incredible detail that these organisms have.
—Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2024
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But what was depicted as a horror at the body and its fungible morphologies in much of the film auteur's work is in Tiley's a more playful turn.
—Michael Workman, chicagotribune.com, 28 June 2017
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Species could become more and more similar to one another in terms of their physical traits, known among scientists as their morphology.
—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 21 July 2022
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With all the toing and froing about his morphology, DNA should be a rich source of conclusive data for this man.
—Adam Rutherford, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2017
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Researchers collected data on the plants' morphology (traits such as size and color), as well as their ecology and rarity.
—Jillian Kramer, Scientific American, 19 July 2021
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