How to Use chemist in a Sentence

chemist

noun
  • The amino acids still preserved were what chemists call racemic.
    Evan Thomas Saitta, Discover Magazine, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Why are chemists great at solving problems?
    Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 2 May 2026
  • Kersey likens his job to that of a chemist who adds a little bit of this and a little bit of that.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Feb. 2023
  • That’s the meniscus—the point where chemists measure liquids.
    Jamie Kiffel-Alcheh, National Geographic, 20 May 2020
  • Padilla Vélez, a DuPont chemist, was shot in the head.
    Sophia Compton, FOXNews.com, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Over the years, chemists have learned a lot about the types of pigments used in Western art.
    Eva Amsen, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
  • Claire is more interested in math and science and hopes to be a chemist one day.
    Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 2 June 2021
  • But users want a certain smell and taste, said chemist Jeffrey Raber.
    Author: Carla K. Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Aug. 2019
  • As for treating the problem, the answer may be sitting in the aisles at the chemist.
    Angela Law, refinery29.com, 3 July 2024
  • Linus Pauling was one of the world’s greatest chemists.
    Big Think, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Small but mighty, microorganisms are nature’s chemists.
    Katherine Bourzac, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Levi, who had worked as a chemist before the war, resumed his work fairly soon after the war.
    Literary Hub, 13 May 2026
  • This isn't the first time Ganzorigt and Bieber have played color chemist for an awards show.
    Kara Nesvig, Allure, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Because of the periodic table, chemists got a head start on a lot of ideas.
    David Szondy august 27, New Atlas, 27 Aug. 2025
  • So chemists had to alter the hormone’s building blocks — a chain of amino acids — to find a more durable variant.
    Gina Kolata, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2023
  • But that's not at all the way the authors, several of whom are chemists, introduce the idea.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Joseph Raimondo lost his chemist job at the Bulova plant when his youngest child was in sixth grade.
    Josh Boak, chicagotribune.com, 18 Oct. 2021
  • The system engineers fed that requirement back to the chemists.
    Dr. Samer Taha, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • Nurse Nancy is the cook in the kitchen working with the formulators and the chemist.
    Rachel King, Fortune, 29 Nov. 2020
  • Also, my mother is a chemist who once drove a mobile lab around Canada testing oil spills.
    Maria Reva september 3, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
  • In the 1930s, a Swiss chemist was looking for new chemicals to kill bugs.
    The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 4 May 2022
  • In the 1960s, a female chemist goes on to be a single parent, then a celebrity chef.
    The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2024
  • In them, the abilities of the chemist collide with the demands of influencer culture.
    Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Her dad was a chemist and moved around the country trying to find work during the Great Depression.
    Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 5 May 2023
  • Allen was a chemist and the first Black woman scientist hired by Brown-Forman.
    Stephanie Kuzydym, The Courier-Journal, 22 July 2024
  • The noble gas neon was first isolated by British chemists at the turn of the 20th century.
    Lina Abascal, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2023
  • The chemists, Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann, weren’t working on a bomb.
    WIRED, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Illicit chemists now use methylone’s structure as a template for modern-day alchemy.
    Jonathan Corum, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The English chemist Joseph Swan, Edison knew, was hard at work on a rival light bulb.
    Tara Isabella Burton, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2023
  • Her father was an environmental chemist, and her mother was a model.
    Christopher Weber, Denver Post, 5 Aug. 2025

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