Example sentences for: stem

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

  • Cavendish was much closer to his own mark: in 1766 he isolated hydrogen, which he correctly perceived as a building block of water ( hydro- being the oblique stem of Greek hyder , water).

  • More than 100 normal individuals had CD34 -mononuclear cells in a fraction of elutriated blood cells that fulfilled criteria for mesenchymal precursors or stem cells.

  • The executive director of the National Bioethics Advisory Committee confessed that in the course of discussing the stem cell experiments, NBAC hadn't got around to the question of defining an organism.

  • Class II mitochondrial disorders stem from secondary defects in oxidative phosphorylation.

  • In an editorial opposite this piece, the conservative Daily Telegraph noted that even the meltdown of the Asian financial system had failed to stem the fall in the price of gold, and said: "The insatiable demand for dollars, and for dollar instruments backed by Washington, is a defining vote of confidence in the American political economy."


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