Sentence examples for a microscopic dot from inspiring English sources

"Ukraine is not a real country, Ukraine is a microscopic dot on the map," she said.

The audience shuffle patiently as a-ha drench everything in echo and refuse to trade on Harket's looks - the absence of screens means that the trim 40-something is a microscopic dot on stage.

But the very quality that embodies such promise — the capacity of the stem cells to form any tissue — derives from these cells' representing, if only as a microscopic dot, life's origins.

An effort like this is easily overshadowed by the great political and military issues that dominate relations between Washington and Moscow, and $10 million is a microscopic dot in the annual federal budget.

Last night I proved to myself once again that senility is still a microscopic dot on a very far distant horizon by acquitting myself particularly well with Paxman's gruffly delivered questions on Italian names for pasta shapes.

That's a microscopic dot on your tax returns.

"And then you zoom out and see how far away our galaxy is from all the others, and it's this microscopic dot.

"With a pipette I added a last drop of ink into a messed up petri dish and saw this single drop expanding from the midpoint through to the edge of the petri dish before contracting in a fast reaction and decomposing into a mesh of thousands of microscopic dots," De Giuli explains.

Only a deep conviction about the humanity of these microscopic dots -- which have fewer human characteristics than a potato -- could justify sacrificing real human lives to make the purely symbolic point that these dots are human too.

In a similar process to ink-jet printing, a print head shuttles back and forth, spitting out microscopic dots of ink and binder, only instead of a sheet of paper, there is a bed of plaster dust.

The Big Allotment Challenge teaches us that we are all but microscopic dots, helpless against the powerful whims of botany, the planet and creation.