protoplasm

Example Sentences

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“We just got a good lesson in how to be effective without moving protoplasm around,” he said.

From New York Times

Even assuming the perspective of human egotism, think how many issues of profound importance to humanity lie within the protoplasm of the simplest microbe!

From Scientific American

“The thought was mesmerizing that that brain represented the most complex mass of protoplasm on this earth and, perhaps, in our galaxy.”

From New York Times

The human race, one prominent advocate declared in 1909, was poised “to dry up the springs that feed the torrent of defective and degenerate protoplasm.”

From The New Yorker

Those blessed Sunday sandwiches aside, it was all “just brown sauces with pieces of protoplasm”.

From The Guardian