How to Use silicon in a Sentence

silicon

noun

• The same kind of as if they were all just built on one piece of silicon.
  — Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 20 Mar. 2024
• On the silicon side of things, expect a sea change soon, though.
  — John Burek, PCMAG, 26 Mar. 2024
• The lights are bout 12-inches tall and they’re made of silicon.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 13 Oct. 2022
• Just know that these may not last quite as long as silicon.
  — John Thompson, Men's Health, 22 Dec. 2022
• To reveal the silicon straw, @newyorknico enlisted the same fan to try it out.
  — David Chiu, Peoplemag, 24 Aug. 2023
• Like, 300 percent, which can cause the silicon to break apart.
  — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 19 Oct. 2018
• The silicon could be used to control the flow of current across the graphene from one electrode to the other.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 27 Apr. 2022
• The silicon tip in most earbuds act as ear plugs of sorts, which help seal off sound.
  — Ben Sin, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
• But the silicon brains of that gear are often shipped in from overseas.
  — Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2020
• Apple’s custom silicon, then, is where the merging of the iPad and the Mac has so far been the most seamless.
  — Lauren Goode, Wired, 9 Mar. 2022
• The magnetic silicon band can help keep the buds in your ears and can be used to wrap around your wrist when you’re done.
  — Greg Manlove, Rolling Stone, 12 Dec. 2024
• The essays are stenciled onto a tiny silicon chip mounted to the top of the rover.
  — Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Feb. 2021
• The latter was the first silicon made in a 7nm process available in a consumer device, and this is the first for a tablet.
  — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 7 Nov. 2018
• It’s the use of Apple’s own silicon that Tim Cook and his team see as game-changing.
  — Ewan Spence, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2021
• After pouring in up to 4.4 quarts of food, push the button at the top to lock in freshness with the silicon seal.
  — Isabel Garcia, Peoplemag, 18 May 2024
• The names will be etched on a silicon chip in teeny-tiny text (smaller than the width of a human hair).
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 30 Sep. 2019
• The palm and fingers are enforced with silicon for added grip.
  — Danny Perez, Popular Mechanics, 9 Dec. 2022
• Casagrande used an ion beam microscope to blast four walls and a roof out of silicon.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 19 Dec. 2019
• Most of the value in the solar panels comes in the form of silver used for wiring and the high-purity silicon of the cells.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 4 June 2024
• The head straps are easy to adjust and are made of high-quality silicon.
  — Kelsey Ogle, Health, 27 Mar. 2023
• Each part was made out of silicon that was shaped and molded to match Dalton’s leg.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 24 Oct. 2018
• Intel notes the warping risk grows as more silicon is placed on the substrate.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 18 Sep. 2023
• The last bit of Nvidia AI-on-5G news centers around its silicon roadmap for the telco market.
  — Bob O'Donnell, Forbes, 29 June 2021
• Chip makers use lots of water to clean their factories and wafers, the thin slices of silicon that form the basis of the chips.
  — New York Times, 8 Apr. 2021
• The substrate is polyimide, a kind of plastic, rather than a silicon wafer.
  — Gregory Barber, Wired, 21 July 2021
• The 3-liter silicon pot body squishes down to just 2 1/2 inches tall.
  — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 15 Sep. 2020
• This display is one of the few reminders of the venue, whose collection provided the quartz, silicon and the rest.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
• Intel opened its first silicon plant in Chandler, Ariz., in 1980 and opened its latest in the same city just last year.
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 23 Feb. 2021
• Little has changed beyond that, especially on the silicon front.
  — Charles Jefferies, PC Magazine, 23 Aug. 2025
• This contained traces of heavier elements like silicon, sulfur, and argon that originate from deeper within the progenitor star.
  — Robert Lea, Space.com, 21 Aug. 2025