How to Use cell in a Sentence

cell

noun

• The suspect was in the police station's holding cell overnight.
• In 1915, a mob dragged him from his prison cell and lynched him.
  — Erin Kutch, NBC News, 23 Feb. 2023
• The first, cellulose, comes from the cell walls of plants.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 25 May 2022
• Carlile then picks up her cell and the pair get down to business.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 14 Nov. 2022
• And some in the crowd pulled out their cell phones to record what happened next.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2022
• Mitchell was in a concrete cell, with only a drain in the floor, the suit says.
  — Doha Madani, NBC News, 16 Feb. 2023
• At the jail, Wiley gave the key to Choate’s cell to his (Wiley’s) wife.
  — Timothy Bella, Anchorage Daily News, 19 July 2023
• 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
• One and only one of these boxes contains the key to the cell.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
• The video shows the officers wrestling with Otieno through a slot in his cell door.
  — Salvador Rizzo, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2023
• In his cell on death row, her boyfriend kept a cellphone.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2023
• Tiny, coffin-like cells that four men were made to share.
  — James Longman, ABC News, 14 Dec. 2024
• The migrants were given cell phones and $50 Visa cards.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 19 Sep. 2022
• Later that morning, the lawsuit states, Gantt her the lock open on her cell, and the door opened.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 12 June 2023
• 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
• My prediction: at the end of this, one of them’s in a cell with Diddy.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 6 June 2025
• 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
• 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
• There are audible screams on the grainy cell-phone video.
  — Amanda Milkovits, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2022
• Every cell in the brain has the gene for making the prion protein.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 27 June 2024
• Once the virus has grown in the cell, scientists extract it for the vaccine.
  — Jenna Anderson, Health, 2 May 2025
• Most hard-side coolers are made with closed-cell polyurethane foam.
  — Tanya Edwards, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 May 2022
• Some passersby recorded the scene on their cell phones.
  — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 17 Sep. 2022
• To ensure her safety, she was housed in a single cell, the jail said.
  — Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2024
• It’s made of protein-rich cells plus fats, or lipids, that fill gaps between the cells.
  — Matt Fuchs, TIME, 6 Feb. 2025
• This leads to a cycle of increasing wear and tear as cells age.
  — Ellen Quarles, Fortune Well, 7 July 2023
• Down the hall is a row of metal black doors that open to windowless cells.
  — Claire Harbage, NPR, 17 Dec. 2024
• Some men are allowed out of their cells for only an hour a day.
  — Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 July 2025
• Prisoners could only bathe in water that was pumped into two cement tanks built into their cells.
  — Sergio Martínez-Beltrán, NPR, 27 July 2025
• Communication in Grant Park can be difficult as local cell service towers become overloaded.
  — Chicago Tribune, 28 July 2025