In a sentence
Six example sentences with glucose, each labelled with its topic.
A finger prick every morning tells her whether the glucose in her blood has drifted above the target range.
Medicine
Marathon runners take gels every forty minutes because muscles burn stored glucose faster than the liver can replace it.
Fitness
Bakers add a spoonful of honey because its glucose browns the crust faster than the crumb can dry out.
Cooking
Photosynthesis turns carbon dioxide and water into glucose, and the plant stores the surplus as starch in its roots.
Science
Trainers hand out fruit at halftime to top up glucose, since a tired brain misreads the defense before legs give out.
Basketball
A popular theory held that self-control burns glucose, though later experiments failed to find the effect.
Psychology
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