How to Use cell in a Sentence
cell
noun- The suspect was in the police station's holding cell overnight.
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In 1915, a mob dragged him from his prison cell and lynched him.
—Erin Kutch, NBC News, 23 Feb. 2023
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The ice crystals tear the cell walls, causing the cells to leak and die.
—Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 20 Mar. 2022
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The first, cellulose, comes from the cell walls of plants.
—Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 25 May 2022
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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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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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Mitchell was in a concrete cell, with only a drain in the floor, the suit says.
—Doha Madani, NBC News, 16 Feb. 2023
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At the jail, Wiley gave the key to Choate’s cell to his (Wiley’s) wife.
—Timothy Bella, Anchorage Daily News, 19 July 2023
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At the end of the episode, it was revealed that the man hanged himself in his San Quentin cell.
—John J. Lennon, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2025
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One and only one of these boxes contains the key to the cell.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
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The video shows the officers wrestling with Otieno through a slot in his cell door.
—Salvador Rizzo, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2023
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In his cell on death row, her boyfriend kept a cellphone.
—Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2023
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Tiny, coffin-like cells that four men were made to share.
—James Longman, ABC News, 14 Dec. 2024
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The players all have I-pads and laptops, cell phones and laptops on the bus.
—Terry Pluto, cleveland, 3 Mar. 2022
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The migrants were given cell phones and $50 Visa cards.
—Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 19 Sep. 2022
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Later that morning, the lawsuit states, Gantt her the lock open on her cell, and the door opened.
—Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 12 June 2023
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As the disease progressed, the rod cells around the edges of my retina would die, followed by the cones.
—Andrew Leland, The New Yorker, 8 July 2023
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My prediction: at the end of this, one of them’s in a cell with Diddy.
—Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 6 June 2025
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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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That followed the death of a 27-year-old man who was found hanging in his cell last week.
—Shaila Dewan, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2022
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There are times, usually in the evening, when cell service can be hit-or-miss due to the size of the crowd.
—Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 23 Sep. 2024
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There are audible screams on the grainy cell-phone video.
—Amanda Milkovits, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2022
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Every cell in the brain has the gene for making the prion protein.
—Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 27 June 2024
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Once the virus has grown in the cell, scientists extract it for the vaccine.
—Jenna Anderson, Health, 2 May 2025
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Most hard-side coolers are made with closed-cell polyurethane foam.
—Tanya Edwards, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 May 2022
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Epstein killed himself in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019.
—Philip Marcelo, Chicago Tribune, 1 Feb. 2026
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The reports said investigators found no drugs or evidence of them in the cell after his death.
—Christopher Damien, USA Today, 1 Feb. 2026
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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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He was found dead in his prison cell about a month later in August 2019.
—Claire Healy, Miami Herald, 31 Jan. 2026
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What makes a cell turn cancerous is probably a lot of factors.
—Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 31 Jan. 2026
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