How to Use laboratory in a Sentence

laboratory

noun
  • Things began to changes in the 1953, when the physical laboratory was moved to the other side of the area's canyon.
    Kelsey Mulvey, House Beautiful, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The protein in the vaccine is produced by cells in a laboratory.
    Carolyn Y. Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 4 May 2023
  • This finding has been replicated, on repeat, both in the laboratory and in the DJ booth.
    Ben MacAulay, Popular Science, 22 June 2023
  • The group spent six months on board the orbiting laboratory after launching to the station in March.
    Jackie Wattles, CNN, 4 Sep. 2023
  • The process took more than 1,000 days and involved extensive laboratory, ground and flight tests.
    Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 28 Oct. 2023
  • The team took those artifacts to a laboratory in Italy for further study and restoration.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 July 2023
  • But, for now, the samples will remain frozen in a laboratory freezer.
    Chris Baraniuk, WIRED, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The eastern front is a live laboratory, and every military’s eyes are fixed on it.
    Samanth Subramanian, WIRED, 5 Oct. 2023
  • With a 14- and a 17-year-old, Mr. Haidt’s household has been something of a laboratory for his smartphone theories.
    Emma Goldberg, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2024
  • The drill will retrieve soils from ancient parts of Mars and analyse them in situ with its onboard laboratory.
    IEEE Spectrum, 15 Dec. 2023
  • And only a handful of those people have been able to leave the laboratory to use them in the real world, since most BCI implants involve wires protruding from the head.
    IEEE Spectrum, 20 Dec. 2023
  • By bringing bits of the space rock to Earth, researchers can use the most powerful laboratory techniques available—not just what tools can fit on a spacecraft.
    Popular Science, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Faust might be brooding in his laboratory; Byron might be dreaming of death and darkness.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
  • In retrospect, going for a second field trip to the infectious-disease laboratory was maybe not the best idea.
    Claire Friedman, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
  • After eggs are extracted, sperm is mixed with the eggs in a laboratory to create embryos.
    Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The Baltimore Sun obtained laboratory testing commissioned by the law firm that filed the suits.
    Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Many assume it was made via laboratory DNA meddling to simply alter the color of a rainbow trout.
    Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 17 Apr. 2023
  • As more drug laboratories in the United States have gained the ability to test for xylazine, its spread has become more obvious.
    The Enquirer, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The smoothie, which had been placed in the fridge, was seized by police to be submitted to a state laboratory for testing, according to the probable cause statement.
    Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Of course, the Hybrid FET is literally the first of its kind, built in a university laboratory.
    IEEE Spectrum, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Patients must have their stem cells extracted from their bone marrow so their genes can be edited in a laboratory.
    Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 16 Nov. 2023
  • This year, says Mr. Cordero, the boxes were organized and categorized, and some of their contents sent to laboratories abroad.
    Pascale Bonnefoy, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The company sent the sample off to a laboratory for analysis.
    Shawn Raymundo, The Arizona Republic, 16 Mar. 2024
  • Patients have stem cells taken from their bodies, edited in laboratory settings, and then put back in.
    Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 6 Dec. 2023
  • The growth in research also has driven construction of a slightly less-restrictive type of laboratory, known as the BSL-3.
    David Willman and Joby Warrick, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Apr. 2023
  • In her view, the classroom should be a laboratory for democracy where students could encounter, inhabit, and try out other points of view.
    TIME, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The plans call for two main buildings for ITD’s business and support management, a central laboratory and a secure area for a fleet of vehicles.
    Nick Rosenberger, Idaho Statesman, 9 Feb. 2024
  • In windowless laboratories underneath the north-campus bar, pallid young men wearing earplugs and T-shirts pushed Nvidia’s microchips to the brink of failure.
    Stephen Witt, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Instruments and filters used in the mine’s laboratory had also not been listed as hazardous waste.
    Sean Maguire, Anchorage Daily News, 15 June 2023
  • The cause of death is pending further laboratory testing.
    Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 21 Aug. 2023

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