How to Use biohazard in a Sentence

biohazard

noun
  • The gasoline spill created a serious biohazard.
  • The lab agreed to send the state 6,000 swabs and biohazard bags to start as well.
    Julia Fair, Cincinnati.com, 8 Apr. 2020
  • The foot was then placed in a red biohazard bag and placed in a freezer.
    Jessica Van Egeren, USA TODAY, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Nearby in the video was a white sheet marked with a biohazard symbol and two faces.
    Chad Arnold, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2020
  • The waste from your trash, from the hotel room, goes into a yellow bag with a biohazard sign on it.
    James Gorman, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2021
  • The user can simply toss the patch in the trash, no need for biohazard containers.
    Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 18 July 2017
  • The user can simply toss the patch in the trash, no need for biohazard containers.
    Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 17 July 2017
  • Brown reportedly put the foot in a biohazard bag and placed it in a freezer.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 23 Nov. 2022
  • The vaccine itself was stored in a locked room marked with biohazard safety posters.
    Austen Erblat, sun-sentinel.com, 17 Aug. 2020
  • Treat your mask like a biohazard đŸ˜·: How to clean your coronavirus mask.
    Ashley Shaffer, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2020
  • Samples returned from the moon were treated with the same level of care as biohazards.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 6 Apr. 2020
  • That said, scrubbing into work at a biohazard lab takes a lot longer than clicking in a seatbelt.
    Kate Golembiewski, Discover Magazine, 11 Mar. 2020
  • There reportedly was so much spit the cruiser had to be cleaned for biohazards.
    Barbara Hijek, Sun-Sentinel.com, 30 Oct. 2017
  • In 2018, a letter that claimed to contain ricin led to a full biohazard response by first responders at her home.
    Fox News, 11 May 2022
  • Thank goodness the house was vacant and no one needed a hotel room or dog boarding during the removal of the rat-rich biohazard.
    Leslie Sargent Eskildsen, Orange County Register, 25 Mar. 2017
  • Every tube will enter a plastic biohazard bag with the patient’s name.
    Catherine Ho, SFChronicle.com, 25 Apr. 2020
  • The first lesson covers how to behave around the chickens and includes basic biohazard training and the need for washing hands.
    Courant Community, 5 June 2018
  • Should the homeowner be advised about this biohazard waste?
    Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Two coast-guard medics in white biohazard suits boarded the Golfo Azzurro to fetch Mr. Osei.
    Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2017
  • On this day, the sky itself, blazing biohazard orange, sounded a silent but urgent alarm.
    Kelsey Rexroat, The New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2021
  • His landlord had his belongings removed and hired a biohazard company to clean the unit.
    Heather Knight, SFChronicle.com, 10 Apr. 2020
  • Meanwhile, the Portland Police Bureau has cordoned off the site, calling it a biohazard.
    Fox News, 26 July 2018
  • Patients and nurses alike have been forced to defecate in plastic bags, then store the waste in overflowing biohazard bins, staff members and patients said.
    Leila Sackur, NBC News, 2 Oct. 2022
  • Workers in biohazard suits at the scene where a former Russian spy and his daughter were found sickened by a nerve agent on March 8 in Salisbury, England.
    Anatoly Kurmanaev, WSJ, 20 Aug. 2018
  • Once the plastic sticks, one for each sample, are retracted and sealed in a bag marked 'biohazard', the residents are hustled out of the facility.
    Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2020
  • In its statement, Vector said that no biohazard material was being stored in the room where the explosion took place.
    Helen Regan, CNN, 17 Sep. 2019
  • This spin mop and wringer bucket set gives you the benefits of a more traditional design without looking like you’re about to clean up a biohazard.
    Popular Science, 9 June 2020
  • Another in goggles and the white cover-all biohazard suit that has become an all too familiar sight.
    Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2020
  • So, what constitutes a biohazard significant enough to reroute a plane?
    Erin Clements, Peoplemag, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Those include trash and biohazard collection in city parks, landscaping, street and sidewalk cleaning and graffiti removal on some public properties.
    oregonlive, 2 Feb. 2023

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