How to Use petri dish in a Sentence

petri dish

noun

• The lunch counter was spattered and smeared, a Covid petri dish.
  — Scott Johnson, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 July 2023
• One day, the cocoa in beloved treats might come from a petri dish.
  — Larissa Zimberoff, The Atlantic, 23 Feb. 2022
• In between the two was a petri dish trapping 20 or so flies.
  — WIRED, 28 Nov. 2022
• But to his surprise, some of the other rows on the petri dish seemed empty.
  — Max G. Levy, Wired, 30 Nov. 2021
• Among the more than 70 items on display, perhaps the strangest were some 30-year-old scabs in a petri dish.
  — Alex Marshall, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2023
• These paramecia are like little fuzzy green blobs that whirl around in the petri dish.
  — Quanta Magazine, 19 Dec. 2022
• But in a Crichton novel, that petri dish must be messed with.
  — Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2024
• It’s no one’s idea on Christmas Eve to pipette stem cells in a petri dish and wait for that to culture.
  — Jayne Williamson-Lee, STAT, 17 Dec. 2022
• But who’s using the town as a petri dish, and why is there a cloning lab buried underground?
  — Matt Kamen, WIRED, 6 July 2024
• By their nature, the Olympics could hardly be a better petri dish for the spread of disease.
  — Rachel Axon, USA TODAY, 15 Mar. 2020
• The cyborg brain is essentially just a bunch of brain cells in a petri dish.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 21 Dec. 2021
• Then, treat the vacant shell as a petri dish where new forms of high-rise urbanism can be hatched.
  — John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Dec. 2022
• As a growing city with ambition to burn, the emirate has been a petri dish for bold projects for the past two decades.
  — CNN, 27 Oct. 2022
• The embryos were grown in a petri dish in a process meant to mimic the embryo’s implantation in the uterus.
  — Amy Dockser Marcus, WSJ, 8 Aug. 2018
• This molecule could stop the virus from growing in human cells in a petri dish.
  — National Geographic, 28 Apr. 2020
• Eggs are retrieved from the ovaries and combined with sperm in a petri dish to be fertilized, and then embryos are placed in the uterus.
  — Norine Dworkin-McDaniel, Redbook, 10 Oct. 2011
• In these little petri dish arts worlds, the voice of the thinker and proselytizer still counts.
  — The Hive, 14 Sep. 2017
• The Blob, which scientists at the Paris Zoo grew in petri dishes, eats tree bark, but prefers oatmeal.
  — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 18 Oct. 2019
• Her eggs were harvested and fertilized with sperm from a donor, in a petri dish.
  — Sarah Kowalski, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 Feb. 2018
• Scientists then had to isolate the severed toe's Bd, grow it in a petri dish, and then sequence its DNA.
  — Matthew Fisher, National Geographic, 10 May 2018
• Getting a wild microbe to take root in a petri dish requires painstaking work, expert skills, and a lot of luck.
  — Monique Brouillette, Wired, 18 Dec. 2020
• Emoji 11 takes some science-minded strides, with glyphs for goggles, a lab coat, a test tube, a petri dish, and DNA.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 8 Feb. 2018
• Now the lab is working on taking cells from tissue in the nasal cavity and growing them in a petri dish.
  — Nicole Kagan, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2022
• Think counting bacteria in a petri dish, or noting if two stars look alike in an image of the Milky Way.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2022
• The staging ground for their relationship squabbles has grown from a petri dish to the cosmos.
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 1 Apr. 2021
• So many in the public eye have a love of drama and talent for self-destruction—a petri dish for gossip.
  — Catherine Ostler, Vogue, 19 Nov. 2021
• Birds have died out, meat products are made in petri dishes and the last tree on Earth is worshiped and regarded with awe.
  — Jerald Pierce, chicagotribune.com, 30 Sep. 2019
• But first things first: Proving that the current petri dish tech can be safe and effective in humans.
  — Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 14 May 2018
• The old forms required a global rating without backup, which is a petri dish for bias.
  — Joan Williams, Fortune, 7 Dec. 2021
• And the failure rate of dog clones is higher than that of many other mammals; for some reason, many dog embryos in petri dishes don’t survive past about eight cells.
  — Alexandra Horowitz, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024