How to Use phosphate in a Sentence

phosphate

noun

• To do that, the child would have to take packets of phosphate three or four times a day.
  — New York Times, 2 Dec. 2021
• Excess phosphate in the blood can lead to bone and heart problems.
  — Merve Ceylan, Health, 21 May 2025
• Both have some of the world's richest deposits of potash and phosphate.
  — Ariel Cohen, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
• But that’s not going to remove phosphate.
  — Emma Gometz, Scientific American, 19 June 2026
• One of these is the story of the lithium-iron-phosphate battery.
  — Gregory Barber, Wired, 18 Jan. 2022
• Once the phosphate ran out, Nauru looked for new revenue sources.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN, 5 Mar. 2025
• For years, phosphate was dug up, with the excess dirt piled up to form various hills.
  — Rodney Page, Tampa Bay Times, 20 Feb. 2017
• Remove them by hand picking them off the fronds, or use iron phosphate slug bait around the base of the fern.
  — Sj McShane, Martha Stewart, 22 June 2026
• But food is so sparse here that oxygen, nitrate, and phosphate were present even in the deepest mud.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 29 July 2020
• Still, the team was not sure how Enceladus had gotten such high amounts of phosphates in the first place.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 June 2023
• Approval of the study is good news for the phosphate industry, which has a big waste problem.
  — Eric Tegethoff, The New Republic, 18 July 2023
• The lever is nickel-phosphate and the balance spring is made of silicon.
  — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 2 Dec. 2025
• On the left, a nickel cobalt manganese battery cell; on the right, a lithium iron phosphate cell.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 13 Feb. 2023
• And what these do is form complexes with organics and phosphates.
  — Emma Gometz, Scientific American, 19 June 2026
• This laundry stick looks like a bar of soap and is free of petroleum, phosphates, parabens, and dyes.
  — Brandi Fuller, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 June 2023
• The fountain also serves phosphates as well as milkshakes, malts and sundaes.
  — Holly V. Hays, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Mar. 2024
• The fountain also serves phosphates as well as milkshakes, malts and sundaes.
  — Holly V. Hays, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Mar. 2024
• The strands are made of alternating sugar and phosphate groups.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2023
• Now, the main limit to crop growth was phosphorus—and as long as the phosphate mines hummed, that was no limit at all.
  — Julia Rosen, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2021
• Aqua denies that the phosphate blend caused lead to leach out of the village’s plumbing into the water.
  — NBC News, 18 June 2021
• Best of all, though, might be a lithium iron phosphate that gives you the ability to live off the grid for two peaceful weeks.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 1 Apr. 2022
• It's built to go the distance with a lithium iron phosphate battery and drop-proof construction.
  — Mike Richard and Dale Arden Chong, Men's Health, 10 June 2022
• The other is a phosphate plant that belches pollution into the sky.
  — The Economist, 3 May 2018
• The parathyroid gland helps regulate calcium and phosphate, so these need to be checked.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 8 Sep. 2023
• And its switch to cobalt-free lithium iron phosphate batteries for some of its cars has given it more room to lower prices.
  — Jacky Wong, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2020
• In the late 1800s, phosphate mining was the main industry in the area near the springs.
  — Patrick Connolly, orlandosentinel.com, 30 May 2021
• When plugged into a wall outlet, its lithium iron phosphate battery can reach an 80% charge in less than an hour.
  — Dan Diclerico, goodhousekeeping.com, 4 Apr. 2023
• Picture a ladder that twists like a corkscrew, with the sugar and phosphate acting as the side rails and the base pairs acting as the rungs.
  — Ryan Rossotto, National Geographic, 12 June 2019
• But creatine is standing by the ready, having stored up phosphates for just this occasion.
  — Matt Fuchs, Time, 2 Sep. 2025
• This is because people with kidney disease are less able to excrete excess phosphate through urine.
  — Catherine Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Feb. 2026