How to Use chemist in a Sentence

chemist

noun
  • The chemist said that did not mean the entries were fake.
    Jacque Smith, CNN, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Grubbs was a chemist who, in 2005, shared the Nobel prize.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 29 Dec. 2021
  • The amino acids still preserved were what chemists call racemic.
    Evan Thomas Saitta, Discover Magazine, 12 Apr. 2024
  • For the relaunch, Larry went into the lab with the chemist.
    Ashlee Marie Preston, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Aug. 2020
  • Over the years, chemists have learned a lot about the types of pigments used in Western art.
    Eva Amsen, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
  • As for treating the problem, the answer may be sitting in the aisles at the chemist.
    Angela Law, refinery29.com, 3 July 2024
  • 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
  • The front of Javed Shaikh’s chemist shop, housed in the compound of the Talab Chowk mosque, was shaved off.
    Supriya Sharma, Quartz, 15 Apr. 2022
  • These compounds came about through the work of chemist John W. Huffman.
    Rudy Sanchez, chicagotribune.com, 12 Nov. 2019
  • That is set in the early 1960s and is about a female chemist who becomes a TV chef.
    Amy Sutherland, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Nurse Nancy is the cook in the kitchen working with the formulators and the chemist.
    Rachel King, Fortune, 29 Nov. 2020
  • In the 1930s, a Swiss chemist was looking for new chemicals to kill bugs.
    The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 4 May 2022
  • That’s the meniscus—the point where chemists measure liquids.
    Jamie Kiffel-Alcheh, National Geographic, 20 May 2020
  • The chemists, Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann, weren’t working on a bomb.
    WIRED, 8 Aug. 2023
  • 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 Jan. 2024
  • But users want a certain smell and taste, said chemist Jeffrey Raber.
    Carla K. Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 27 Aug. 2019
  • But users want a certain smell and taste, said chemist Jeffrey Raber.
    NBC News, 26 Aug. 2019
  • But users want a certain smell and taste, said chemist Jeffrey Raber.
    Author: Carla K. Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Aug. 2019
  • 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, 20 Dec. 2023
  • 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, 12 July 2023
  • 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, 14 June 2023
  • 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, 28 Sep. 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, 31 May 2023
  • 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, 27 Dec. 2023
  • 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, 5 July 2023
  • In 1951, Coover’s job was moved to Kingsport, Tennessee, where he was assigned a team of chemists.
    Kelsey D. Atherton, Popular Science, 20 July 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
  • 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 tintype format was introduced by chemist and physicist Hamilton Smith in 1856.
    Kaila Philo, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2025
  • Drawing from obscure archival material, the episode outlines how a group of Dutch experts, most of them doctors and chemists, helped improve and formalise distillation techniques in Scotland.
    Felipe Schrieberg, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025

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