How to Use polyp in a Sentence

polyp

noun

• These polyp groups are called colonies.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
• Do all polyps need to be removed?
  — Caroline C. Boyle, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2025
• The doctor is able to use the scope to both see and cut out the polyps.
  — Women's Health, 22 Mar. 2023
• Two types of polyps live on the upper portion of the body.
  — Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 23 Apr. 2026
• Over time, that might lead to mutations and polyps.
  — Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 7 Sep. 2025
• This time, two small polyps were removed and found to be harmless.
  — Bryant Stamford, Louisville Courier Journal, 23 Oct. 2025
• If polyps are found, the colonoscopy may take up to 45 minutes.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 15 Aug. 2024
• Most cancers there start as polyps, or growths, on an inner wall.
  — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 28 Feb. 2017
• Over the next day and a half, this blob becomes a new polyp, which can then form more medusae.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2022
• The bladder polyp, which looks like a pale blue tooth, stores water and glows in the dark.
  — Marjie Lambert, miamiherald, 16 June 2017
• The bladder polyp, which looks like a pale blue tooth, stores water and glows in the dark.
  — Marjie Lambert, miamiherald, 30 May 2017
• The footage then went on to show images of the actual scan of the polyp.
  — Alexandra Schonfeld, Peoplemag, 13 Sep. 2022
• The second type of polyp is small, wart-like and occurs in clusters.
  — Samantha Agate, Charlotte Observer, 23 Apr. 2026
• Cash had polyps on her vocal cords removed that left her unable to sing for years.
  — Pam Windsor, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
• This causes the polyps to eject them, to ensure short-term survival.
  — The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
• Most polyps do not affect a person’s cancer risk.
  — Carrie Madormo, Health, 17 Oct. 2025
• Guthrie's surgery involved the removal of a polyp on her vocal chords.
  — Meg Walters, InStyle, 20 Jan. 2026
• Ninety-five percent of colon cancers arise from that type of polyp that was in your colon.
  — Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com, 8 Nov. 2019
• That’s because, unlike in other hard coral species, the polyps join rather than stand alone.
  — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2024
• These polyps extend above the sand and secrete a mucus net to capture small prey.
  — Samantha Agate, Charlotte Observer, 23 Apr. 2026
• Sheinelle Jones recently had surgery for a polyp on her vocal cords.
  — Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping, 25 Feb. 2020
• These are then caught by other polyps and are used to fertilize eggs throughout the colony.
  — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2024
• Corals are animals, not plants; each organism is made up of lots and lots of polyps.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 23 Apr. 2018
• The coral polyps that make up the colonies also use that method to avoid predators, many of which are slow-moving.
  — Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2025
• In return, the microorganisms provide most of the polyp’s food.
  — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 8 Dec. 2020
• Politzer, 64, has one every five years because doctors have found polyps in the past.
  — Sarah Gantz, Philly.com, 7 Mar. 2018
• In 2005, the Moorea reefs faced hordes of crown-of-thorn sea stars, which eat coral polyps.
  — National Geographic, 18 June 2018
• Each branch or mound of coral is a collection of thousands of tiny animals known as polyps.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2023
• This meant having another surgery to remove polyps that were found in the lining of my uterus.
  — Kae Zaino, Outside Online, 26 June 2019
• The tests are not very good at detecting precancerous polyps that show up on a colonoscopy.
  — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC news, 15 Feb. 2026