How to Use laboratory in a Sentence

laboratory

noun
  • Things began to changes in the 1953, when the physical laboratory was moved to the other side of the area's canyon.
    Kelsey Mulvey, House Beautiful, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The only way to know for sure that a bloom is harmful is to test it in a laboratory.
    Julia Ries, Outside Online, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Instead, the fish was frozen and shipped to a laboratory.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 26 July 2024
  • The protein in the vaccine is produced by cells in a laboratory.
    Carolyn Y. Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 4 May 2023
  • The dolphins were sent to a state laboratory where a necropsy will be performed, the center said.
    Teddy Grant, ABC News, 21 Mar. 2023
  • It was sent to the laboratory of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo for further study.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 21 Jan. 2023
  • This finding has been replicated, on repeat, both in the laboratory and in the DJ booth.
    Ben MacAulay, Popular Science, 22 June 2023
  • The group spent six months on board the orbiting laboratory after launching to the station in March.
    Jackie Wattles, CNN, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Nearly 6 feet of snow had piled up as of Tuesday at the snow laboratory at Donner Pass.
    Ian Jamesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2023
  • This laboratory, and who was working there, might be the key to unraveling the truth.
    Mark Johnson, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Mar. 2023
  • All of the remains were exhumed, and they were sent to the agency's laboratories for analysis.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 11 July 2024
  • The process took more than 1,000 days and involved extensive laboratory, ground and flight tests.
    Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 28 Oct. 2023
  • The team took those artifacts to a laboratory in Italy for further study and restoration.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 July 2023
  • But, for now, the samples will remain frozen in a laboratory freezer.
    Chris Baraniuk, WIRED, 11 Sep. 2023
  • But none of these have made an impact outside the laboratory.
    IEEE Spectrum, 22 Mar. 2023
  • There, the young Dora caught a glimpse of people working in laboratories.
    Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 24 Oct. 2024
  • The eastern front is a live laboratory, and every military’s eyes are fixed on it.
    Samanth Subramanian, WIRED, 5 Oct. 2023
  • After all, leaks from laboratories are common — the last person known to have died of smallpox was exposed through such a leak.
    Michael Specter, STAT, 6 Apr. 2023
  • With a 14- and a 17-year-old, Mr. Haidt’s household has been something of a laboratory for his smartphone theories.
    Emma Goldberg, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2024
  • The drill will retrieve soils from ancient parts of Mars and analyse them in situ with its onboard laboratory.
    IEEE Spectrum, 15 Dec. 2023
  • While many of these bans have since been repealed, many schools are still hesitant about how AI tools will be used (or misused) in the classroom or laboratory.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 9 Aug. 2024
  • To get the amount and type of fertilizer just right, get a soil test and a recommendation from a soil laboratory.
    Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
  • And only a handful of those people have been able to leave the laboratory to use them in the real world, since most BCI implants involve wires protruding from the head.
    IEEE Spectrum, 20 Dec. 2023
  • By bringing bits of the space rock to Earth, researchers can use the most powerful laboratory techniques available—not just what tools can fit on a spacecraft.
    Popular Science, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Clermont-Ganneau had done his best, but the stele looked like something out of Dr. Frankenstein’s laboratory.
    Chanan Tigay, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2023
  • For years, Russia has been using Syria as a laboratory [for testing] methods that are now used by Putin in his war against Ukraine.
    Marta Balaga, Variety, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The two astronauts were scheduled to remain at the orbiting laboratory for just more than a week.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Results takes about two weeks after the samples are received by the laboratory.
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 24 May 2024
  • The multi-course dinner is served in a laboratory/dining room.
    Tinbete Ermyas, NPR, 3 June 2024
  • That’s because a single traditional real-world laboratory, clinical or epidemiological study alone cannot account for, measure and keep track of all of the different factors and outcomes for all kinds of people.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2024

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