How to Use clone in a Sentence

clone

1 of 2 noun
  • The clone of the tree that grew from a seed that went to the moon doesn’t look like much.
    Penelope Green Balarama Heller, New York Times, 14 July 2023
  • At the same time, Sophos says that Thor is a clone of Kratos.
    George Yang, Variety, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Some of them look like straight-up clones of the Pencil.
    Cierra Cowan, PCMAG, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The group's clones shade the streets of Seattle and Eugene, Oregon.
    Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2024
  • As a clone of Joan of Arc, you’d be morbid too if you were burned at the stake.
    Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Her menu isn’t a clone of what’s cooking in Falls Church.
    Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The World of Avatar and a virtual clone of the theater was built in the park’s Africa section.
    Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 28 July 2022
  • There are multiple clones of Erin and there is one clone of KJ.
    ELLE, 29 July 2022
  • And the real challenge at the end of the day with cloning is who's going to do the work of parenting that clone?
    Gideon Lichfield, WIRED, 26 July 2023
  • The trees spread through root shoots, so those clusters are clones of each other.
    Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The original Maya, who provided the donor cells for the clone, died of old age last year.
    Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The clone only lived for a few minutes and died because of a lung defect.
    Theara Coleman, The Week, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The hope is to plant little Stumpy clones on the National Mall or nearby parks.
    Kevin Ambrose, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Scoles: Not clones of you, exactly? Moskowitz: Not even close.
    Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 22 Feb. 2023
  • At the time of the cover shoot, Art Jr. looked like a tiny clone of his father, complete with golden, curly locks of hair.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 27 Jan. 2024
  • His memory comes to an end as the clones spot Grogu in his hiding spot and move toward him.
    Sydney Odman, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Feb. 2023
  • But in the four years since its launch, not a single automaker has made a Cybertruck clone.
    Carlton Reid, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Named Holly+, the vocal clone sings in Herndon’s voice but can be prompted to sing anything.
    WIRED, 27 Nov. 2022
  • Hatred leads all the unused clones of Hank and Dean into battle to aid Brock.
    Mat Olson, Vulture, 19 July 2023
  • Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter clone Threads rode a screaming missile out of the gate.
    Andrew R. Chow, Time, 17 Aug. 2023
  • In response, the singer’s clone shakes her head in disappointment.
    Alexandra Del Rosariostaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2022
  • The three of us became funny-looking clones, Edgars before there were Edgars.
    Myriam Gurba, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Each tree is a clone stem of the same plant, all connected by an underground network of roots.
    Heather Souvaine Horn, The New Republic, 14 Apr. 2023
  • My evil clone would absolutely be named Lauren Badde with an E at the end.
    Gideon Lichfield, WIRED, 26 July 2023
  • In the new video, Lizzo is dressed in white and walking down the aisle, but instead of a groom, a clone of herself waits for her ready to exchange vows.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Things go awry when he’s presumed dead and a replacement clone, dubbed Mickey 8, tries to take his place.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Terrell noted that Spill isn’t designed to be a Twitter clone.
    Elizabeth Dwoskin, Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2023
  • The album’s digital cover art sees the back of Grande’s head, leaning against a clone of herself.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Having weird bottle episodes like Episode 3 with the clone scientist or Episode 6 with the Scooby Doo stuff and the cameos just felt so tonally bizarre.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
  • It could be seen as a nod toward the debut of what is essentially a Twitter clone.
    Jason Abbruzzese, NBC News, 7 July 2023
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clone

2 of 2 verb
  • Do you think scientists should clone humans?
  • If you were cloned, would the clone have the same sense of humor as you?
    Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 9 Apr. 2019
  • Genies Avatars are NFTs, so no one is able to clone you and rob a bank.
    Charlie Fink, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2022
  • She gets cloned, and lives on as a young version of herself.
    Elena Nicolaou, refinery29.com, 15 July 2019
  • Master Zindt will not respawn and clone himself a bunch of times.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Scientists in Italy had cloned the first horse in 2003.
    Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2023
  • These tests cannot be used to clone humans, experts said.
    Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2022
  • Gardeners dug these variants and took them to the greenhouse to clone them.
    Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2021
  • The grove’s adult trees resprout over and over by cloning, and some of them are likely to be many thousands of years old.
    Maddie Stone, The Atlantic, 25 Feb. 2020
  • The Mi Watch is an Apple Watch clone, but the design is pretty much the only thing that's cloned here.
    Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 6 Nov. 2019
  • The engine control unit stores a copy of the wireless key code, and thieves can clone this to a blank key fob to use to start the victim’s car.
    Doug Jacobson, The Conversation, 14 Aug. 2023
  • This technique was famously used to clone Dolly the sheep in 1996.
    Jessie Yeung, CNN, 14 Aug. 2020
  • Building a training set for cloning Herzog's voice was the easiest part of the process.
    Giacomo Miceli, Scientific American, 17 Jan. 2023
  • There is a workaround that requires you to clone the flow and select a new trigger.
    Gabriel Zamora, PCMAG, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The authors claim these strains could have been used as a template to clone a deadlier virus.
    Monique Brouillette, National Geographic, 18 Sep. 2020
  • The last of the animals died out in 2000, but three years later scientists used its frozen cells to clone a calf.
    Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Being able to clone themselves, in effect, might allow big stars to take an even bigger share of the pie.
    The Economist, 5 July 2018
  • All those murdered guests, were they to be cloned back to consciousness, would not present the threat of wrongful-death lawsuits.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 3 June 2018
  • Scientists used a bacterium to clone each piece of the genome, and then studied them in smaller groups.
    Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 1 Apr. 2022
  • NBC News Digital is aware that its sites are being cloned.
    NBC News, 19 Oct. 2019
  • Women from nearby villages have been trained to clone the trees and prune and tend to the precious cutlings, wearing straw hats to guard against the hot sun.
    John Schmid, jsonline.com, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Now comes the tough part: explaining to his basic demographic of Archie Bunker clones what a podcast is and how to find the darn thing.
    BostonGlobe.com, 15 Dec. 2019
  • Do these animals, cloned from ancient DNA, deserve the same protection as the rest of the planet’s species?
    Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 20 June 2018
  • Meta is used to cloning its competitors Meta is no stranger to cloning its competitors’ ideas and selling them to users like its own.
    Scott Nover, Quartz, 6 July 2023
  • Two extinct cats could be cloned and set up in an island park for Jeff Goldblum to admire himself next to.
    Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Some interpret Brady’s scene coming out of a strip-mall spa that’s central to the cloning premise of the show as trolling Patriots owner Robert Kraft.
    BostonGlobe.com, 24 Nov. 2019
  • Set in the 22nd century, the fate of a civil war hinges on a researcher's ability to clone her soldier mother's brain.
    Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 30 Jan. 2023
  • The show implies that the fictional Brady, played by the real Brady, has cloned himself six times, once before each Super Bowl win.
    BostonGlobe.com, 22 Oct. 2019
  • Rather than cloning Twitch, the other video platforms are crafting their own identities.
    Amrita Khalid, Quartz, 28 Jan. 2020
  • You are supposed to clone and fuse yourself in order to conceal your Black or indigenous side.
    Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 2024

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