How to Use droplet in a Sentence

droplet

noun
  • Droplets of water collected on the windows.
  • Yet all the drops and droplets that did fall didn’t add up to much.
    Martin Weil, Washington Post, 14 May 2023
  • The droplets that fall from it put the rain in rainforest.
    Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2023
  • For $99, the only part of you that gets to make the trip is a tiny droplet of your spit.
    Steve Rubenstein, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Feb. 2021
  • To taste even a droplet is to get an idea of eating lava.
    Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Enlarge / Close-up of the anal stylus used to fling pee droplets.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Blood welled on the 64-year-old’s fingertip, and the nurse coaxed a droplet into a vial.
    Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Some droplets seemed to loiter in the air, to be depicted as mist.
    Martin Weil, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2023
  • The water beads up into droplets and sits on the surface of your hair.
    Erica Metzger, Women's Health, 28 June 2023
  • As the plume returns to Earth, small droplets begin to condense and rain down.
    Alka Tripathy-Lang, Ars Technica, 26 Jan. 2024
  • As the moon circles Saturn, those frozen droplets form a ring around the planet.
    Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Only a few diseases were thought to break this droplet rule.
    Megan Molteni, Wired, 13 May 2021
  • When safety Max Williams caught the ball, water droplets splashed in his face.
    Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The river water splashed our faces, the droplets like needles pricking the skin.
    Lawrence Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • The gravel will change the angle at which the droplets bounce, keeping the siding drier.
    Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The first major mode of transmission for flu is by droplet.
    Cincinnati Enquirer, The Enquirer, 26 Sep. 2022
  • In the hours before sunrise, the fine droplets of light drizzle mingled with fog and mist.
    Martin Weil, Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2023
  • That means more lives saved for every droplet of vaccine.
    Brendan Borrell, The Atlantic, 1 Oct. 2021
  • The light helps water droplets dry on the surface of the hair, while leaving moisture intact within the strand.
    Victoria Song, The Verge, 9 Jan. 2024
  • If moisture droplets appear over the next day, avoid painting.
    Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2023
  • In one place, a single swollen mass of droplets showed a spectrum of gray, from near black at one end to the look at the other of worn whiteness.
    Martin Weil, Washington Post, 13 June 2023
  • Those masks had a droplet transmission rate of less than 0.1 percent.
    Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 22 Jan. 2021
  • The tiny droplet decals are a perfect finishing touch for these nails.
    Gabi Thorne, Allure, 19 Oct. 2022
  • The first will be a CBD droplet for home baking, projected for release by June.
    Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Tiny amounts of virus, about 10 microns – the amount in a single droplet someone sneezes or coughs – can make someone sick.
    Brenda Goodman, CNN, 31 Mar. 2022
  • In silence, with a shared pain and delight, the two of us could spend whole minutes watching a droplet trickle down the other side of the pane.
    Artem Chapeye, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2022
  • The new syringe swaps the sanguine color palette for a more versatile blue-gray hue, and gets rid of the droplet of blood.
    Arielle Pardes, Wired, 27 Apr. 2021
  • These cores can be carried into a cell sheathed in a tiny lipid droplet or a harmless chimpanzee virus.
    Marla Broadfoot, Scientific American, 10 Feb. 2021
  • The discovery of a membrane-free cell, called a coacervate droplet, has sparked new ideas on the origins of life.
    Monique Brouillette, Popular Mechanics, 19 Apr. 2022
  • The most common way to become infected is to breathe in the infected droplets through your mouth or nose.
    Anna Halkidis, Parents, 16 June 2023

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