How to use in-sentence of “break down”:
+ A process called catabolysis will break down body tissues, using them as fuel to keep vital functions working.
+ Researchers have recently discovered a turtle’s organs do not gradually break down or become less efficient over time, unlike most other animals.
+ Glucagon helps break down some of these sugar stores into glucose. However, there is still not enough insulin in the blood to break down the glucose into energy.
+ Both producers and consumers need to break down organic compounds to free energy.
+ That is, they break down into other particles a fraction of a second after they are created.
Example sentences of “break down”:
+ As the sugar heats, the molecules break down and turn into compounds with the colour and flavour of caramel.
+ The pancreas helps break down carbohydrates, fats, and proteins.
+ Inside the city, the districts break down into smaller divisions called city wards.
+ They also need less power and do not break down as much as vacuum tubes.
+ Despite the apparently harmless nature of static electricity, there can be significant risks in research, because a large charge can break down the equipment.
+ This helped to break down the idea of a divided city, and put the important tourist centre of Berlin under one local government.
+ The Governor’s forces use a tank to break down the fence.
+ When treatments break down ink particles into smaller pieces, macrophages can more easily remove them.
+ Enzymes break down the cytoskeleton of the cell.
+ They phagocytosiseat pathogens and break down their MHC molecules.
+ Tattoo removal is most commonly performed using lasers that break down the ink particles in the tattoo into smaller particles.
+ The crown-of-thorns climbs over its prey, releases digestive enzymes to break down its food, and then absorbs the coral polyp, which has now turned into a liquid.
+ As the sugar heats, the molecules break down and turn into compounds with the colour and flavour of caramel.
+ The pancreas helps break down carbohydrates, fats, and proteins.
More in-sentence examples of “break down”:
+ The traditional view is that no metazoan phylum can break down cellulose by producing the enzyme cellulase.
+ Their life style is called ‘saprophytic’, because they break down and intake organic matter through their cell walls.
+ When you are not eating, cells break down the stored glycogen into glucose to use as energy.
+ Phenylketonuria where a person’s body cannot break down an amino acid called phenylalanine.
+ Some break down natural chemicals in their environment.
+ Cadmium sulfide is a good pigment because it does not break down easily, is very bright, and does not react with air like other pigments can.
+ However, termites also help break down the trees and branches that fall on the forest floor.
+ They can also break down these compounds without oxygen, using anaerobic respiration or fermentation.
+ Work on why structures fail or break down is very important to engineering.
+ This concept began to break down prior to the First Crusade.
+ That was much larger, and stored microbes which produced cellulase to break down plant cell walls.
+ Thanks to everyone who participated in the social yesterday! We had a lot of fun! We discussed future ideas for Weekend Events and how to break down larger problem categories into manageable tasks.
+ Autophagy is the process that cells use to break down and recycle cellular components.
+ The human teeth function to Masticationmechanically break down items of food by cutting and crushing them in preparation for swallowing and digesting.
+ Once boiled rice and Nuruk are mixed, the enzymes in Nuruk break down carbohydrates in rice into sugar.
+ One in a million people have damaged copies of the lipase gene needed to break down fats.
+ Unfortunately silica particles have a tendency to allow absorb soluble components and they have the capacity to break down components into atoms.
+ It is found in germinationgerminating seeds such as barley as they break down their starch stores to use for food.
+ It occurs when the very small air sacs at the ends of the airways in the lungs start to break down from many sacs to form much bigger sacs.
+ Aang can form an “air ball” to break down obstacles and blow away objects by making a circle with the Wii Remote.
+ This is especially true for Parkinson’s disease, where the Glia break down dopaminergic cells, causing the symptoms associated with Parkinson’s.
+ The seeds and leaves will kill cattle and horses, but deer can break down the poisons and will eat yew foliage freely.
+ With this order, Himmler wanted to break down the resistance of the Polish people against the German occupation.
+ It is able to break down urea.
+ The traditional view is that no metazoan phylum can break down cellulose by producing the enzyme cellulase.
+ Their life style is called 'saprophytic', because they break down and intake organic matter through their cell walls.
+ When you are not eating, cells break down the stored glycogen into glucose to use as energy.
+ FactoryFactories use machines to break down the cocoa beans into cocoa butter and chocolate.
+ Decomposers break down cells of other organisms using biochemical reactions without need for internal digestion.
+ When growing on mineral surfaces, some lichens slowly break down the substrate, and extract tiny amounts of mineral nutrient.
+ In 1960, in order to carry out its plan and break down the economic backbone of the Jumma people of the CHT in the name of so-called industrial development, the Pakistani government built the Kaptai hydro-electric dam on the Karnaphuli river in the heartland of the indigenous Jumma people.
+ Hoatzins use bacterial fermentation in the front part of the gut to break down the vegetable material, much as cattle and other ruminants do.
+ The cells start starving, because they do not have insulin to break down glucose into a form that the cells can use for energy.
+ It can break down naturally.
+ The Railway has recently sold assets following the break down of talks with Cambrian Transport which an has been forced to leave Barry.
+ Some break down easily.
+ Chemists use strong acids to break down other molecules.
+ These features do not last long and break down soon after they are formed.
+ It will break down if exposed to air.
+ Supercids can break down molecules that stand up to most other acids.
+ Aldehydes will break down in air.
+ Unlike birds, the human stomach can break down the seed coat and release the taxanes into the body.
+ For example, lysosomes have enzymes inside them that break down the food the comes from food vacuoles, and peroxisomes have enzymes that break down peroxide, a poison, so it is not poisonous anymore.
+ The compounds in apple juice called phytonutrients delay the break down of LDL or cholesterol.
+ The introduction of animals or plants to new areas may break down ecosystems.
+ Light can break down riboflavin molecules into other molecules that the body cannot use.
+ Others help to break down forest litter and dead organic matter such as skin cells.
+ The other way is to break down a single protein into smaller pieces.