How to Use droplet in a Sentence

droplet

noun
  • Droplets of water collected on the windows.
  • The droplets can be inhaled around the sides of the masks.
    Yoko Kubota, WSJ, 10 Feb. 2020
  • Swaying branches and heavy droplets of rain play tricks on their eyes and ears.
    Jace Bauserman, Outdoor Life, 4 Mar. 2020
  • Ever seen a fish swimming through water droplets in the air?
    Sean Hollister, The Verge, 23 Sep. 2024
  • These droplets can then be inhaled and cause infection.
    Dr. Angela N. Baldwin and, ABC News, 29 Feb. 2020
  • The paste is warmed and stirred in a mixer to help release the oil and form larger droplets.
    Aviv Joshua, Verywell Health, 17 Sep. 2024
  • That allows the smaller droplets to coat the waxy leaves more uniformly.
    Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 13 Feb. 2020
  • Stop the spread Coronavirus is a droplet-spread illness.
    Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al, 5 Mar. 2020
  • Those droplets can land in the mouths or noses of people who are nearby or be inhaled into the lungs.
    Kristen Jordan Shamus, Freep.com, 29 Feb. 2020
  • Mumps is spread through respiratory droplets or saliva.
    Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Police later found a head-sized hole in the wall of the bedroom, as well as a bed missing its comforter and a napkin with droplets of blood on it.
    Sophie Carson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Feb. 2020
  • The droplets can dissociate into hydrogen and oxygen ions, causing charges to build up near the top.
    Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 17 Feb. 2020
  • Pressed into service are materials that range from mere water droplets to state-of-the-art polarizing filters.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2024
  • People waterskiing, boating or tubing in areas with algal scums may be exposed to breathing in water droplets that could contain toxins.
    Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Coronaviruses, which cause respiratory infections, usually spread through the droplets that spray out when an infected person sneezes or coughs.
    NBC News, 7 Feb. 2020
  • The Helix Micra filters were developed to, with no moving parts, capture micrometer-sized droplets of water sprayed on spacecraft to fight fires.
    New Atlas, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Pekosz says most illnesses are spread by droplets, which means a respirator mask is considered a higher-level method of protection only needed for airborne illnesses.
    Ashley Abramson, Allure, 4 Mar. 2020
  • The new virus is thought to spread primarily via droplets in the air, and the guidelines largely echo strategies recommended to stem the spread of other respiratory viruses, such as influenza.
    Dallas News, 2 Mar. 2020
  • 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
  • Five droplets means you’ll get doused; one droplet is more akin to a light sprinkle.
    Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2024
  • 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

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