Example sentences for: groove

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

  • The crystal structure of the zinc finger pairs of tramtrack-DNA duplex revealed that the two fingers together contacted 5 base-pairs "A 1G 2G 3A 4T 5" in the major groove of DNA: The first finger interacts with A 1G 2G 3while the second finger interacts with G 3A 4T 5 [ 33 ] . By inference, each zinc finger pair of KRC might also bind to a pentamer.

  • The first cleavage groove extends to the egg's equator by now, while the second meets the blastoderm margin.

  • What the "groove" in that phrase originally referred to is hard to establish definitively, because several meanings current in the 1930s all permit plausible theories.

  • And groove could simply mean a "style," a sense associated with the parallel between being in a groove and being in a rut . (In the 19 th century, groovy actually meant "to be in a rut" or to be "of settled habits" or "conventional"; the first Oxford English Dictionary citation for this kind of grooviness is dated 1867.)

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