How to use in-sentence of “metabolic rate”:
– Their metabolic rate is slow and they sleep most of the day underground.
– Thyroid hormones influence the metabolic rate in two ways: by stimulating almost every tissue in the body to produce proteins and by increasing the amount of oxygen that cells use.
– In long periods of hunger, such as a drought, its metabolic rate can reduce by up to twenty-five percent.
– It has a very low respiration and metabolic rate for an animal of its size, about two thirds that of a mouse of the same size.
– A higher metabolic rate affects the whole of their lives, and is the main reason why they have shorter lives than large animals.
– The metabolic rate varies between individuals.
– They act to increase the production of proteins, basal metabolic rate and growth hormone.
– Important issues like heat control, metabolic rate and respiration are still unclear.

