denature
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
This property depends heavily on both the amount of protein in the beer and how these proteins denature.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 29, 2025
It is thought that acids in the stomach denature the virus, said Michael Imperiale, a microbiologist and immunologist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2024
At an internal body temperature of about 104, 105, something like that, your cell membranes actually begin to denature, like what an egg does when you put it in a frying pan.
From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2023
“We need to take a step back and decide: Are we willing to denature nature for our toys and our various games we play with her?”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 31, 2022
There is no way that the military establishment can denature human nature, and change this determining condition.
From The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 by United States. Dept. of Defense
Now that most of the paint is gone, spray the chair with denatured alcohol and scrub with more steel wool to clean off any residue.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2024
To manufacture the sponge, Mohammad Peydayesh, a senior scientist in Mezzenga's Group, and his colleagues denatured whey proteins under acidic conditions and high temperatures, so that they aggregated into protein nanofibrils in a gel.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 29, 2024
They’re punchlines designed to be clipped and denatured of meaning.
From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2024
The title and Ma’s name are ruffled too, as if the author herself were shrink-wrapping delicious pleasure into a denatured product.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2022
Hundreds of pounds of denatured iron that alchemists would have fought over The mayor nodded eagerly and singsonged, “Dig a pit that’s ten by two. Ash and elm and rowan too.”
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
![]()
Antonoff, an occasional tabloid presence thanks to his relationships with actresses Lena Dunham and Margaret Qualley, isn’t alone in his flair for slightly denaturing sounds familiar to any music fan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2022
Denaturation is often reversible because the primary structure of the polypeptide is conserved in the process if the denaturing agent is removed, allowing the protein to resume its function.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
In denaturing the stage action from the narrative, though, the play makes it possible to admire Berry’s certified-organic artistry and Morrison’s haunting accompaniment, without feeling anything like unease.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2020
This emotional complacency—a kind of saccharine self-satisfaction at his own sensitivity—is all the more disheartening for its denaturing of the movie’s evident substance, for the banalization of its meditative, nearly collage-like sense of memory.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 11, 2017
He endured the most virulent personal abuse that has ever been poured out on American public men, preferring that to using the power which his position gave him, and denaturing the President into a tyrant.
From George Washington by William Roscoe Thayer