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'particle' in a sentence

Learn how to use 'particle' with 10 example sentences.


particle noun

: (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything

: a body having finite mass and internal structure but negligible dimensions

: a function word that can be used in English to form phrasal verbs


  • This particle turns a noun into a verb.
  • The girls talked about particle physics.
  • Light behaves either as a wave, or as a beam of particles.
  • The Large Hadron Collider is the world's largest particle accelerator.
  • The Higgs boson has been called the God particle.
  • Tiny particles in the air can cause cancer.
  • Most foreigners will never fully master the use of German modal particles.
  • Dangling particles should be avoided at all costs in English.
  • My specialty is particle physics.
  • He doesn't have a particle of kindness in his heart.
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