Example Sentences

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This then encourages the red blood cells to metabolise more glucose.

From Salon • Jan. 29, 2025

In the absence of oxygen, cancer cells resort to a very specific survival mechanism: they metabolise the amino acid glutamine as an alternative source of energy through a chemical reaction known as ''reductive carboxylation''.

From Science Daily • Sep. 20, 2023

This is why the body needs to metabolise your muscles when you’re in a calorie deficit.

From Scientific American • Jul. 13, 2023

Another recent study by Matthew Carrigan, from Santa Fe College in the US, showed that humans and African apes shared a genetic mutation that enabled them to effectively metabolise ethanol.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2015

Some of the most beneficial polyphenols aren't absorbed in the small intestine: we depend on colonic bacteria to metabolise them.

From The Guardian • Mar. 31, 2013