Example sentences for: term

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

  • The term our times and its portentous relative our time (as in "one of the most important movies/books/recordings of our time ") are rhetorically vast but temporally indeterminate, even as they become trivialized by overuse.

  • In current American usage, the term resembles what we call kidding: that is, making fun of someone or some thing in a frivolous manner, such as in the obligatory banter at roasts of famous people.

  • Under the former trademark law, shredded wheat was considered a generic term and, hence, not registrable.

  • During the third trimester, and after 34-36 weeks of pregnancy in particular, the placenta may develop an abnormality, often classified as placental aging [ 19 20 21 22 23 24 ] . These abnormal placentae are characterized by generalized interstitial fibrosis and fibrinoid degeneration of villous stroma, and are associated with cellular apoptosis and congestion of villous sinusoids [ 24 25 26 27 ] . Immunohistochemically, villous abnormality is associated with progressive diminution of Thy-1 differentiation protein in the villous core [ 28 ] . Marked changes in villous structure are particularly associated with advanced maternal age [ 29 30 ] . We have recently reported that, with respect to the Thy-1 expression, compensatory dilatation of villous sinusoids, and placental expression of low molecular weight cyclin E variants, the term placentae can be classified into four placental types (PT1-PT4) [ 30 ] , where PT4 corresponds to the most severe placental abnormality.

  • It is a standardized difference score ( z score) using the expected value and standard deviation of the number of genes meeting the criterion on a GO term under a hypergeometric distribution.


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