Sentence examples for plastic tips from inspiring English sources

Telomeres are often compared to the plastic tips that keep the ends of shoelaces from fraying.

Every time a cell divides, the telomeres shorten, like plastic tips fraying on a shoelace.

It focused on telomeres, stretches of DNA that cap chromosomes like the plastic tips of shoelaces.

Telomeres are stretches of DNA which protect genetic codes, and have been compared to the plastic tips of shoelaces as they keep chromosomes from scrambling.

While they talk, they use wooden blocks to tap yellow plastic tips on the top of black 10-inch plastic poles, then drop the completed staffs into a box.

A few years ago, there was great excitement about telomeres, Liz Blackburn's specialty — DNA buffers that protect the ends of chromosomes just as plastic tips protect the ends of shoelaces.

The plastic tip is grooved from being clenched there often.

From his shopping cart, which he had packed with two amplifiers, CDs of his music for sale and a plastic tip bucket, Geechee Dan cued his background music.

The keyboard and mouse come with a 1.1 Bluetooth transceiver, a thumb-size sliver of plastic tipped with a flashing blue light.

But feeling flush now, and no longer obliged to be a skinflint, I tucked $5 in the plastic tip cup and hoped that someone was watching.

They resembled the tubes of nuts in the bulk-foods section of the grocery store, although each of these dispensers ended at the bottom in a small, conical plastic tip, like that of a pipette.