Sentence examples for cling to surface from inspiring English sources

Crops can be contaminated by fallout, which can cling to surface of plants at first and later be taken up by their roots.

The latest massacre in Oregon is sadly not isolated but just another domino falling in our marriage to prayerful inaction and our endless clinging to surface conversation and comfort of the status quo.

Without a cleanup, the material would cling to surfaces and contaminate the area for decades.

The experimental gripper uses a new kind of adhesive that mimics the way gecko lizards cling to surfaces without falling.

This organism is a spore-former: it makes small, hard seeds that cling to surfaces and parachute all over the place.

Dr Federle and his colleagues argue that the complex arrangement of pegs and channels around the hexagonal cells has evolved to drain the mucus rapidly away from the toe pads, allowing the tree frog to grip.Finally, the team investigated the force with which toe pads cling to surfaces.

Millennials aren't the only ones adapting to live in cities one species of urban lizard has evolved stickier feet and longer legs to better cling to surfaces like metal and glass, New Scientist reports.

Having both a positive and negative charge can make tiny smoke particles clump up, fall out of the air like rain droplets and cling to surfaces, said Jim Dvorsky, product development leader at Battelle.

A clean soft bristle attachment would be best, and any small nozzle would be good, for breaking their static cling to surfaces and sweeping away burrs from cut edges.

Geckos are renowned for their ability to scurry up walls, clinging to surfaces with the help of tiny rows of hair on their toes that generate a subtle electrical attraction known as the van der Waals force.

A particularly novel form of such a delivery system are contact lenses, which are thin, curved plastic disks that are designed to cover the cornea and which cling to the surface of the eye owing to surface tension.