globule

Example Sentences

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The glittering mucus globules travel along “highways” on the sponge’s surface, eventually meeting with particles from other highways at mucus “junctions” to form silklike clumps.

From Science Magazine

Time was of the essence now because the snappy touch of Jack Frost had turned the heavy, sweet clusters of their crop into glittering globules pregnant with grape juice.

From Seattle Times

He was working with fat globules one hundredth the size of a cell.

From New York Times

The oil created a miles-wide sheen in the ocean and washed ashore in sticky black globules.

From Seattle Times

Luckily, the insect Philaenus spumarius, which is approximately the size of a Tic Tac, has a butt catapult that regularly flicks its globules of liquid waste into the air and safely away from its body.

From New York Times