How to Use multicellular in a Sentence

multicellular

adjective

• From its skin, fur or bark right down to its genome, any multicellular creature is an amalgam of other life-forms.
  — New York Times, 2 Dec. 2020
• These multicellular organisms lack the cell walls in plants and can produce sperm.
  — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2021
• It is thought that multicellular life began to emerge after Earth thawed.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2024
• The research also might shed new light on how multicellular organisms arose in the first place.
  — Erin Blakemore Washington Post, Star Tribune, 22 Apr. 2021
• Loopy is a primitive form of multicellular robot that is made of a ring of 36 cells.
  — Trevor Smith, The Conversation, 26 Feb. 2024
• By gaining a foothold on land, Tortotubus helped to pave the way for multicellular life to emerge from the oceans.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 2 Mar. 2016
• The emergence of multicellular life forms.
  — Elena Megalos, Longreads, 31 Mar. 2026
• In the multicellular yeast, the division of labor was more subtle.
  — Sarah Fecht, Scientific American, 16 Jan. 2012
• Some scientists believe that multicellular life may have arisen thanks to enormous mountain ranges.
  — The Atlantic Science Desk, The Atlantic, 28 Dec. 2024
• Experts assumed, though, that this skill was unique to multicellular organisms, which had bodies made of many cells for which other cells could die.
  — Quanta Magazine, 6 Mar. 2024
• This oxygenation event, though gradual, set the stage for multicellular life.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
• Each of these multicellular creatures started as a single cell that divided countless times to produce its body.
  — Quanta Magazine, 2 May 2024
• Could one of these multicellular creatures and its offspring reside within Landry?
  — Claire Panosian Dunavan, Discover Magazine, 19 July 2018
• Just recently, there’s been new clues as to when the first possible multicellular organisms arose.
  — quantamagazine.org, 26 Sep. 2024
• Researchers traced genes found in humans back to some of the earliest multicellular animals to roam Earth.
  — Tim Childers, Popular Mechanics, 19 Mar. 2021
• Maybe some of these changes contributed to the beginning of multicellular animal life.
  — Veronique Greenwood, WIRED, 11 Aug. 2024
• Yet running beneath the surface there has been a core rate of cancer, the legacy of being multicellular creatures in an imperfect world.
  — George Johnson, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2013
• Now, new research makes the case that the ancient life form is not a plant, animal or fungi and instead may be a completely unknown form of multicellular life.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 5 Feb. 2026
• Today, all complex multicellular life — indeed, all life that any of us regularly see — is made of eukaryotic cells.
  — Quanta Magazine, 28 Oct. 2024
• It’s often implied that the big deal in the origin of complex animals like us, known as metazoans, was the switch from unicellular to multicellular life.
  — Quanta Magazine, 8 Oct. 2025
• Only one other multicellular organism is known to be able to exist without it — the parasitic mistletoe.
  — Megan Molteni, STAT, 23 July 2022
• Understanding the yeast may offer up one more clue in the search to fully understand multicellular evolution.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 13 May 2023
• An embryo is one of the earliest stages of development of a multicellular organism.
  — Annalisa Merelli, STAT, 22 Feb. 2024
• Normally the cells obey a covenant, established by trial and error more than 600 million years ago, in the first forms of multicellular life.
  — Jeffrey P. Townsend, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2018
• Kaz wants her relationship with Toby to move faster, which right now is going about the same speed as the formation of multicellular life on Earth.
  — Charlotte Walsh, Vulture, 10 July 2021
• As the ice melted, complex multicellular life began to burst onto the scene during the Ediacaran period.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2024
• Researchers have also found that solitary human lung cells can self-assemble into miniature multicellular organisms that can move around.
  — Peter A Noble, Discover Magazine, 14 Sep. 2024
• During this time, a large amount of oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere and oceans allowed for the first multicellular, oxygen-using organisms to arise from the sea.
  — Tara Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2024
• About 1m species have been described, more than twice as many as all other multicellular animal species, terrestrial and marine, put together.
  — The Economist, 8 Aug. 2020
• The small multicellular creatures pump water through their bodies to catch and feed on phytoplankton, poop particles, and other bacteria.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 28 Nov. 2021