How to Use plasma in a Sentence

plasma

noun
  • Our new TV is a 50-inch plasma.
  • This stream of plasma is called the solar wind.
    Samuel Badman, The Conversation, 6 Oct. 2025
  • All the atoms within a plasma have lost some of their electrons.
    Karmela Padavic-Callaghan, Wired, 17 Mar. 2021
  • The tokamak is lined with strong magnets that hold the plasma in.
    Angela Dewan, CNN, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The plasma machine is switched off with eight minutes left to go.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 15 June 2024
  • Buy young blood for the plasma and inject it to slow the aging process.
    Marianne Garvey, CNN, 28 July 2022
  • The plasma, which is the liquid part of the blood, is easy to restore.
    Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 3 Aug. 2022
  • The cause of these kicks is the ejection of blobs of plasma from the red giant stars.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 22 June 2026
  • In some cases, like with this flare, plumes of plasma can also be part of the process.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 5 July 2023
  • From there, this matter is blasted out as twin near-light-speed jets of plasma.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 12 Dec. 2025
  • There's also a need for plasma and for platelets, which only have a five-day shelf life.
    Stephanie Stahl, CBS News, 28 May 2026
  • The plasma contains white blood cells and platelets, which are rich in what are known as growth factors.
    Kaleigh Fasanella, Allure, 2 Feb. 2022
  • The process to collect plasma begins with the patient on a bed.
    Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 7 Oct. 2021
  • These beams also heat the plasma and supply it with fresh fuel.
    IEEE Spectrum, 15 Oct. 2023
  • The Sun is made up of what solar physicists like us call plasma.
    Samuel Badman, The Conversation, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The drag of these winds on the slow-moving plasma streams creates friction.
    Quanta Magazine, 22 June 2021
  • Once an hour has passed, the lab technicians will measure how much plasma is present.
    Suchandrima Bhowmik, Health, 1 May 2025
  • Of course, a hot, dense plasma wasn’t the beginning of things either.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 16 Sep. 2025
  • One of the crew members then used the plasma cutter to cut a piece out of the top of the tire as sparks flew out.
    Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 23 Mar. 2024
  • In the words of the authors, the cooler plasma slid back, like cars along a roller coaster track.
    Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 8 June 2021
  • Our team calls this concept the air-breathing microwave plasma thruster.
    Sven Bilén, The Conversation, 16 Dec. 2025
  • On one side, a plasma field implanted the fuel.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Some of the plasma was held back and applied topically in a mask.
    Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 18 Oct. 2025
  • This means more of the plasma is available to be spewed onto the space junk, and more plasma means more thrust.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The plasma that makes up the accretion disk comes from farther out in the galaxy.
    David Garofalo, The Conversation, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Then it was given different shapes to try to recreate in the plasma.
    Amit Katwala, Wired, 16 Feb. 2022
  • With the plasma, Amelia is able to stop the bleeding and save Dylan.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 16 May 2025
  • Carter Taylor sold her plasma to pay bills during her first year of teaching.
    Thomas White, Kansas City Star, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Details in the images show plasma, which covers the sun, that appears to boil.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 Dec. 2020
  • The flow of plasma within the sun creates the star’s magnetic field.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 May 2024

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