How to Use mutation in a Sentence

mutation

noun

• The cat's short tail is the result of mutation.
• The building is a mutation of the original design.
• The condition is caused by a genetic mutation.
• Over time, that might lead to mutations and polyps.
  — Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 7 Sep. 2025
• It is caused by a mutation in the huntingtin gene.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
• But there’s still a lot researchers don’t know about this mutation.
  — Gwendolyn Wu, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Dec. 2021
• That was a question that the mutation will help to answer as well.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 15 July 2022
• If a baby has the trait, that means at least one parent has the mutation.
  — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2021
• Finding out about the mutation in his genome gave him a fuller picture of his health.
  — Roxanne Khamsi, The Atlantic, 15 Feb. 2026
• The mutation can change the way the virus functions, which means it could be passed back to humans.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 30 Apr. 2024
• The same mutations can be present in nonautistic people, too.
  — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 10 Sep. 2025
• That kind of mutation could kick off the formation of a new cancer.
  — Alia Sajani and Angus Chen, STAT, 12 July 2024
• So, what causes these mutations and what's the impact?
  — Emily Kwong, NPR, 9 June 2026
• So why do people like Johnson have this mutation in the first place?
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 23 May 2022
• All of them have evolved a mutation in the same genetic letter.
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Feb. 2021
• One of them has the same mutation that's in the South African variant.
  — CBS News, 28 Feb. 2021
• The delta-plus mutation has been detected for the first time in samples.
  — Stephen Hudak, orlandosentinel.com, 9 Aug. 2021
• This means the story isn’t as simple as one mutation equals one disease.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
• But these mutations can evade your immune system.
  — Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 17 Dec. 2025
• For most of us, this was how the crisis was viewed - from the abstraction of space, a mutation of the map.
  — Henry Wismayer, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2022
• For most of us, this was how the crisis was viewed — from the abstraction of space, a mutation of the map.
  — Henry Wismayer, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2022
• That path is built for one child and one mutation, by one desperate family at a time.
  — Judy Stecker, STAT, 27 Feb. 2026
• About 5% of white Americans have one copy of the gene with this mutation.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 24 May 2022
• One reason for that could be that the mutation is linked to the X chromosome.
  — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 27 Oct. 2020
• But the government says the latest mutation is just the tip of the iceberg.
  — Morten Buttler, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2020
• Maybe the risk of a false alarm, based on an imperfect search for one kind of mutation, is better than no alarm at all.
  — David Axe, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2022
• So trying to look at the DNA mutations that are present there.
  — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 20 May 2024
• But then to have [this mutation] be so massive and so many repeats stuck in there, that is unusual.
  — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 24 Apr. 2026
• That variant with the mutation was found in the United States last week.
  — New York Times, 22 Feb. 2021
• For most of the year, the question of mutation was speculation at best.
  — Philip Kiefer, Popular Science, 11 Mar. 2021