Example sentences for: nonorganisms

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

  • Doerflinger, the Catholic spokesman, was so intent on asserting the unique personhood of totipotent cells that he dismissed pluripotent cells, by contrast, as nonorganisms.

  • In embryonic development, totipotent cells (ostensibly organisms) divide into pluripotent cells (ostensibly nonorganisms), which in turn divide into cells that are "committed" to become specific tissues.

  • The immediate threat posed by the unraveling of the old physical and moral distinctions--between human beings and human parts, organisms and nonorganisms, subjects and objects--is that private interests will come to own the stuff of which we're made.

  • But this lawyerly parsing misses the larger moral challenge: The distinction between organisms and nonorganisms is collapsing.


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