Example sentences for: alternating

How can you use “alternating” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Interestingly, these receptors can function as molecular switches, alternating between states of transcriptional repression and activation, depending on the absence or presence of a cognate hormone, respectively.

  • [ 27 28 ] The direction of thyroid symptoms was mainly towards hyperthyroidism, though some patients exhibited signs of both an over- and an under-active thyroid (for example, tachycardia alternating with bradycardia).

  • Alternating attempts to indict and extradite Ruiz Massieu have strained U.S.-Mexican relations for years, but the case for indictment has grown so strong, says the NYT , that the Mexican government now supports the proceedings.

  • Here, rather than alternating N and S poles being next to one another, runs of NNN and SSS occur.

  • The backbone of peptidoglycan consists of a chain of alternating N -acetylglucosamine (NAG) and N -acetylmuramate (NAM) units linked by a 1-4 glycosidic bond between the two hexoses.


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