How to Use cell in a Sentence
cell
noun- The suspect was in the police station's holding cell overnight.
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The men ran back to their cells.
—Kristine Phillips, IndyStar, 4 Nov. 2025
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My cell wasn’t easy to get ahold of.
—Jack Hargreaves, The Dial, 9 Sep. 2025
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Now, it's no longer used as a cell.
—Dana Taylor, USA Today, 9 Mar. 2026
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Seeds can be sown in small pots or cell packs.
—Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 Feb. 2026
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In Alzheimer's, brain cells die too soon.
—Jon Hamilton, NPR, 16 Oct. 2025
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The guards came and got me from my cell and walked me out.
—Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2025
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The baby was in the cell as well?
—Cora Engelbrecht, New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2026
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One said his cell was dirty and had a strong smell of sewage.
—Mauricio Torres, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2025
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No one is keeping him in the cell.
—Literary Hub, 2 Apr. 2026
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No one is keeping him in the cell.
—Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 26 Mar. 2026
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The light in my cell was always on.
—Omid Memarian, The Atlantic, 25 Jan. 2026
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The doctor comes to their cell.
—Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 9 Oct. 2025
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By day eight, beating heart cells emerge.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2025
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In the kitchenette across from our cell, there’s no gas.
—Eli Sharabi, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
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This is when a cell reverts to a stem cell state to heal.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 31 Aug. 2025
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Whose body was found in Thabo Bester's cell?
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Sep. 2025
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Carlile then picks up her cell and the pair get down to business.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 14 Nov. 2022
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Most hard-side coolers are made with closed-cell polyurethane foam.
—Tanya Edwards, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Apr. 2023
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When salt levels in your blood take a plunge, your cells swell up.
—Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 2 July 2026
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Ruis and Yates were later placed in the same cell.
—Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2026
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HeLa, though, was just a single cell type.
—Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 29 May 2026
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And some in the crowd pulled out their cell phones to record what happened next.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2022
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That shift makes the cells safer, longer-lasting, and much faster to charge.
—Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2025
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The police locked them up in holding cells.
—Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
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The cell has someone else’s feces and urine all over it.
—Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 24 Mar. 2026
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But for now, the world is likely safe from mirror cells.
—N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2025
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Every cell in my body screamed yes, but my mind spiraled.
—Jennifer Wolfgram, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2026
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Some men are allowed out of their cells for only an hour a day.
—Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 July 2025
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Epstein was found dead in his jail cell six months later.
—Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 31 Jan. 2026
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