Example Sentences

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The new compound, zosurabalpin, worked "extremely well" in test-tubes and mice, Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership scientific director Prof Laura Piddock said.

From BBC • Jan. 4, 2024

Women have variously looked like hour-glasses, test-tubes, snakes, string-beans, pincushions, fiddles, pyramids and in one supreme burst of misguided effort, men.

From Time Magazine Archive

More than a rack of test-tubes — a retort!

From Time Magazine Archive

With a sweeping gesture he indicated the rows of microscopes, the test-tubes, the incubators.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

Blithe was the singing of the young girls over their test-tubes, the Predestinators whistled as they worked, and in the Decanting Room what glorious jokes were cracked above the empty bottles!

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley