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Example sentences for "secreting"

Lexicographically close words:
secretaryships; secrete; secreted; secretes; secretin; secretion; secretions; secretive; secretively; secretiveness
  1. One is being performed all the time, day and night; that of secreting an energy that is absorbed back into her body and that adds to her strength, health and beauty.

  2. This experiment proves that these organs are secreting an energy that is necessary in developing and maintaining an ideal womanhood.

  3. Fifteen hours afterward this edge was neatly turned inward, partly covering the row of flies, and the surrounding glands were secreting copiously.

  4. Secreting their money in the Malayan sash, which formed a part of the attire, they soon robed themselves in the native garments, the comfort of which was immediately acknowledged.

  5. About five hundred pieces of gold were selected and taken on board of the raft with the intention of secreting them about their persons, and resorting to them in case of need.

  6. This seems to prove that they can retain the wax, or prevent secreting it, till wanted.

  7. The last refuge of intolerance is in not tolerating the intolerant; and I am often in danger of secreting that sort of venom.

  8. I was irritable and out of sorts; but you have an apparatus for secreting happiness--that's it.

  9. The snail, supposing that its shell had been broken, immediately began to repair the wound, and closed up the breach with its shell-secreting mantle, so that the two shells became one.

  10. The univalve has a shell-secreting mantle and organs resembling those of the bivalves, only differently placed.

  11. For the purpose of examination we may consider a coral animal as a sea anemone possessing the faculty of taking lime from the sea water and secreting it in the little rooms which we have found existing in the anemones (Fig.

  12. These worms are minute imitators of corals, as they form a corallike structure, the worms having the faculty of secreting lime, as do the corals, yet they are much higher in the scale of life.

  13. The ovary is inferior, and there is a nectar-secreting disc between the styles and the stamens.

  14. These have the form of thick scales, and often are provided with glands secreting a gummy substance which helps render them water-proof.

  15. The great majority of them, too, have the surface covered with glandular hairs secreting a strong-scented volatile oil, giving the peculiar odor to these plants.

  16. The object of such injections is to check synovial secretion, and this is sought by the local effect of iodin in contact with the secreting cells together with the reactionary swelling which occasions pressure.

  17. The form of the honey-secreting developments of the disk at the base of the ovary also shows considerable variety.

  18. He further shows that the nectar-secreting glands on the petioles of Prunus avium are not developed at a very early age, yet wither away on the old leaves.

  19. The fertilisation of these plants is generally aided by the stigmas being of large size or plumose; and in the case of the Coniferae, by the naked ovules secreting a drop of fluid, as shown by Delpino.

  20. Now how did so many bees discover at once that the flowers were secreting nectar?

  21. They also discover the minute nectar-secreting glands on the stipules and leaves of certain plants.

  22. As the flowers require the aid of insects for their complete fertilisation, and as they are not visited by insects nearly so often as most other nectar-secreting flowers, we can understand the remarkable fact discovered by H.

  23. The pedicels of the hairs are divided by transverse partitions, and the secreting glands are formed of many cells, containing greenish matter with little globules of some substance.

  24. The process does not depend on the glands secreting more copiously than they did before; and is independent of the inflection of the tentacles.

  25. The glands on which the flies rested, as well as those on the over-lapping margin which had been brought into contact with the flies, were all secreting copiously.

  26. Judging from the evidence above given, the secreting glands of many other plants can absorb salts of ammonia, of which they must receive small quantities from the rain.

  27. By forcing up one of the lobes, I was able to see some distance between them, and all the glands within sight were secreting freely.

  28. The glands which had been brought into contact with the upper surfaces of the seeds were now secreting freely.

  29. After three days the margins of both leaves with the albumen were still as much inflected as ever, and the glands were still secreting copiously.

  30. From the analogy of Pinguicula, belonging to the same family, I naturally expected that the bladders would have digested their prey; but this is not the case, and there are no glands fitted for secreting the proper fluid.

  31. This fact was observed repeatedly; on one occasion I chose a young leaf, which was not secreting freely, and had never caught an insect, yet the secretion on all the glands coloured litmus paper of a bright red.

  32. The leaves of this ancient form were almost certainly linear, perhaps divided, and bore on their upper and lower surfaces glands which had the power of secreting and absorbing.

  33. Hooker has recently shown, Nepenthes, could all have acquired the power of secreting a fluid which dissolves or digests animal matter.

  34. Even the common Bracken produces curious honey-secreting hairs when it is in a young condition.

  35. The whole upper surface of the leaves is covered with tiny glands secreting a sticky, glistening matter.

  36. The process begins in one great class of cells, the epithelium of the secreting glands.

  37. The apparatus for secreting sperm and that for copulating are sometimes separated.

  38. Disjunction of the secreting apparatus from the copulating apparatus: spiders, dragon-flies.

  39. Disjunction of the secreting apparatus from the copulating apparatus.

  40. The kiddey was topped for the poultry rig; the young fellow was hanged for secreting a letter and taking out the contents.

  41. Going on the lob; going into a shop to get change for gold, and secreting some of the change.

  42. The pneumatophore arises from the ectoderm as a pit or invagination, part of which forms a gas-secreting gland, while the rest gives rise to an air-sack lined by a chitinous cuticle.

  43. Single gland showing the two kinds of secreting cells and the duct where the gland opens on to the surface.

  44. The capillaries and the lymph vessels supply the secreting cells with fluid, and the nerves control their activities.

  45. From the blood the urea is separated by the secreting cells of the kidneys.

  46. These membranes, however, are not called glands, but secreting surfaces.

  47. The coiled extremity, which forms the secreting portion, is lined with secreting cells and surrounded by a network of capillaries.

  48. The secreting cells simply separate it from the blood where it already exists.

  49. These structures—secreting cells, basement membrane, capillary and lymph vessels, and nerve fibers—form the essential parts of all glands.

  50. This is a thin, connective tissue support upon which the secreting cells rest.

  51. A system of nerve fibers which terminate in the secreting cells and in the walls of the blood vessels passing to the glands.

  52. Water and salts are removed chiefly at the capsules, while the remaining solid constituents of the urine pass through the secreting cells that line the tubules.

  53. The glands connected with the food canal, other than the liver, while secreting liquids that aid in digestion, also separate waste materials from the blood.

  54. These penetrate the tissues immediately beneath the secreting cells.

  55. But we must not be caught," I returned, deftly rolling up the wigs and secreting them in the branch of a tree, where they looked like a new kind of bird's nest.

  56. One was in favour of secreting them under a certain tree in the garden of St Bruno's.


  57. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "secreting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.