MEMBRANE in a Sentence

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This membrane is attached to the side of the nut, and the nut falls to the ground, when it is gathered for use.

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 Meanings and Examples of MEMBRANE
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membrane
 n.  thin soft sheet of animal or vegetable tissue
Classic Sentence:
1  While the ear of the former has an external opening, that of the latter is entirely and evenly covered over with a membrane, so as to be quite imperceptible from without.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 74. The Sperm Whale's Head—Contrasted View.
2  Membrane after membrane was torn.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
3  I hold it to be the wondrously thin, ruptured membranes of the case, coalescing.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 94. A Squeeze of the Hand.
4  Like those membranes which arise from certain inflammations and form in the human body, the network of secret societies began to spread all over the country.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...
Example Sentence:
1  This membrane is attached to the side of the nut, and the nut falls to the ground, when it is gathered for use.
2  A ganglion cyst is a fluid-filled tumor that develops near a joint membrane or tendon sheath, and that bulges beneath the skin, forming a protuberance.
3  In biochemistry, a receptor is a protein on the cell membrane.
4  These are substances which specifically latch onto the protein on the cell membrane.
5  The virus then passes through the cell membrane.
6  Head, eyes, ears, nose and throat were remarkable for dry mucous membranes.