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Plaque in sentence

33 examples of Plaque in a sentence

By the way, Tony Hayward, the former CEO of BP, had a plaque on his desk inscribed with this inspirational slogan: "What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?"
Now this is actually a popular plaque, and this is a crowd of overachievers, so I'm betting that some of you have this plaque.
And we said, "We're going to hypothesize that the fatty plaque in women is actually probably different, and deposited differently, than men."
And so the yellow is the fatty plaque, and panel A is a man.
Have you ever wondered what is inside your dental plaque?
It's a type of fossilized dental plaque that is called officially dental calculus.
Maybe then we'd spend less time worrying about serial killers and plane crashes, and more time concerned with the subtler and slower disasters we face: the silent buildup of plaque in our arteries, the gradual changes in our climate.
The plaque is laid down more evenly, more diffusely along the artery, and it's harder to see.
Scientists now know that this is an early step in triggering the process of atherosclerosis or cholesterol plaque build up in your arteries.
They put up a plaque to commemorate what happened there.
We think it takes at least 15 to 20 years of amyloid plaque accumulation before it reaches a tipping point, then triggering a molecular cascade that causes the clinical symptoms of the disease.
Many scientists are betting big on the simplest solution: keep amyloid plaques from reaching that tipping point, which means that drug discovery is largely focused on developing a compound that will prevent, eliminate, or reduce amyloid plaque accumulation.
She'd had enough, and she didn't give me a Dear John letter, but she did give me this, a Dear John plaque.
There's a little plaque on the end that, you know, each buyer gets their name engraved on it.
The plaque reads, "Albert Einstein lived here."
We can understand, for example, why we create plaque in our arteries, what creates the starchiness inside of a grain, why does yeast metabolize sugar and produce carbon dioxide.
Course, like light, it's great to be able to put sound to highlight a clothing rack, or the cornflakes, or the toothpaste, or a talking plaque in a movie theater lobby.
And you know, my mother taught us ... she was tough on us, and she said, "You know, Leah," she gave us all this plaque, "to be a good woman, you have to first look like a girl."
They also left behind a plaque.
This plaque is a beautiful object, and one that I want to talk to you a little bit about.
When we see something as decorative as this, a ceremonial patch, or something like this plaque on the moon, we realize that Futura was more than just something ceremonial, something more than something that had just been picked for its design.
So in some ways, this German typeface on an American plaque perfectly mirrors what happened with the technology.
Our brains can gunk up with plaque, and we can get Alzheimer's.
You know, at the end of your time in Washington, they're going to take this plaque off the door.
Please never see it and avoid it like the plaque.
A talk show is about engaging topics that plaque the world today, like the war in Iraq or the lack of employment, right?
There is not a single plaque commemorating the Leningrad KGB's victims near the site of their suffering.
Although about one million people were incarcerated there, there is only one heartbreaking plaque on a shed, which reads, "The children's barrack of the Solovki Camp."
(This plaque has been vandalized many times, the last with a graffito in red oil paint, "Too few were shot.")
“This monument,” the plaque reads, “is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and know what needs to be done.