Example Sentences

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They found that a sugarlike glycan had moved from Position 334 to Position 332 on one of the lumpy spikes that stud the virus.

From New York Times • Oct. 29, 2012

The virus’s vulnerable spot — open to antibody attack — was created when a sugarlike surface compound called a glycan shifted positions.

From New York Times • Oct. 29, 2012

It cuts through granite and quartz, along fault lines and beneath a sugarlike layer of dolomitic marble—a sand trap to anything going through it.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 15, 2008