How to Use lab in a Sentence

lab

noun
  • The healthcare provider will collect your blood and then send it off to a lab.
    Rachel Swalin, Health, 7 Apr. 2024
  • The perfumer’s kind of gardening doesn’t happen in the fields, but in a lab.
    Nerisha Penrose, ELLE, 7 Sep. 2023
  • During the lab test, the Handy Laundry dryer balls stood out in every way.
    Alida Nugent, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Woll's blood swab and the jacket were both sent to a state forensic lab in December.
    Andrea May Sahouri, Detroit Free Press, 16 Jan. 2024
  • We got invited to show it at that first lab and people loved it.
    Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Overall, our lab noted that these were a great find for hot sleepers.
    Amy Schulman, Peoplemag, 27 Mar. 2024
  • As for the sweatshirt that looked like Nevaeh’s grandmother’s, the detective sent it to the lab for testing.
    Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 1 June 2023
  • Other groups are trying to grow human organs from stem cells in the lab.
    Emily Mullin, WIRED, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Look at the dosages and check for a third-party lab test when selecting a product, Burdeos says.
    Perri O. Blumberg, Men's Health, 5 July 2023
  • Ai Kimura manages a lab that tests water drawn near the Fukushima plant.
    Janis MacKey Frayer, NBC News, 26 Aug. 2023
  • The formula goes to a lab, where the perfume is initially made, and then the team presents it to the client, who may love it or send it back to be reworked.
    Pia Velasco, Allure, 9 Jan. 2024
  • By learning about caimans, the lab has been working to bring their numbers under control.
    Freda Kreier, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Ale is getting laid off from the freeze lab when Elizabeth seizes on him, a potential helper.
    Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Talking Microscope can add to their at-home labs with this telescope.
    Rachel Rothman, Good Housekeeping, 8 July 2023
  • White House ‘substance’: A formal lab test of the white substance found at the White House over the weekend came back positive for cocaine.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 6 July 2023
  • The company is able to now grow over a dozen different types of cell lines commonly used in labs, Afshar said.
    Alex Knapp, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • She’s welcomed bold-faced names into the design lab before and says that infuses the process with passion and a creative spark. .
    Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Berg helped inform our tests by consulting our lab team on the best ways to test a rain jacket's performance, as well as what to look for in a men's rain jacket.
    Olivia Avitt, Peoplemag, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Reproducing this colorant in the lab could pave the way for new methods of creating pigments.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Those eggs are then fertilized in a lab and, if successful, turn into embryos.
    Sabrina Malhi, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2024
  • As recently as March, the previous owner allegedly used the home’s garage as a methamphetamine lab.
    Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The company has encouraged its patients to visit their labs after Friday, once this round of strikes ends.
    Andrea Salcedo, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2023
  • To top it off, the garage can house a pair of custom 30-foot tenders, an array of diving gear, and two 20-foot containers that can double as transportable science labs.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 13 June 2023
  • After, for instance, Danvers and Navarro have captured and subdued Clark while all three are snowed in at the lab, their chief suspect refuses to talk with them.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 18 Feb. 2024
  • As a tenured professor with her own lab at Emory University, Heemstra is now quite open about her failures.
    TIME, 2 Jan. 2024
  • That's because in a country of over 100 million, there are only two labs that do mpox PCR – or polymerase chain reaction – testing.
    Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Followup visits, prescriptions, lab tests, and treatment will cost more.
    Fran Kritz, Verywell Health, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Researchers who handle blood in the lab must undergo training and take special precautions to work with it safely.
    Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Her doctor is careful not to order lab tests for her because of the potential for unaffordable costs, Ms. Dodge said.
    Noah Weiland, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024
  • This started in 2019, when mechanical engineers were setting up their lab at Rice and noticed a dead spider at the edge of a hallway.
    Rachel Feltman, Popular Science, 8 Nov. 2023

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