How to Use pipette in a Sentence

pipette

noun

• The memories emerge drip by drip, as if from the tip of a pipette.
  — Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2020
• The pipettes would pile up, and all that plastic waste just seemed wrong to her.
  — Alice Bell, CNN, 5 Nov. 2019
• These kinds of motions are like taking water out of the ocean with a pipette.
  — Katherine Dunn, Fortune, 14 Feb. 2020
• One by one, Rawashdeh used a small pipette to move the larvae into paper cups.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 May 2022
• To spread the mixture out, Zoll gently taps it with the tip of a pipette dipped in a surfactant—dish soap in this case.
  — Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 23 Mar. 2022
• Using a pipette or a dropper, apply five drops (about ¼ teaspoon) of mineral oil at the tip of each corn ear.
  — oregonlive, 9 July 2023
• Using a joystick to manipulate a tiny pipette, Lo first tapped his chosen sperm on the side.
  — Randi Hutter Epstein, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
• In contrast, when a paper is posted as a preprint, the authors’ peers still review it, but their vetting isn’t forced through the tip of a pipette.
  — Simine Vazire, Wired, 25 June 2020
• New tweaks to the formula are made easy with a large enough tray, a small enough pipette and an astronaut willing to take some direction.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 5 June 2018
• By using one’s oral cavity with the pipette to measure and transfer liquids.
  — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 20 Mar. 2013
• To use, apply three to four pipettes along your hairline and part after washing your hair, then gently massage the serum into your scalp.
  — Nicol Natale, Peoplemag, 17 May 2023
• If the swab is tested manually, a scientist will use a pipette to put the assay kit onto the sample.
  — Ivan Watson, CNN, 12 Mar. 2020
• Teenagers wearing safety goggles squat down, sucking up samples of the clear liquid with pipettes.
  — Stacy Teicher Khadaroo, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 June 2017
• For example, to treat 40 corn plants, mix ½ teaspoon BT with 10 teaspoons mineral oil and apply it with a pipette the same way as described above.
  — oregonlive, 9 July 2023
• And scientists have a hard time imagining what research might look like without pipette tips.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Apr. 2021
• The Nalgene company of Rochester, New York, began making plastic pipette holders for lab work in 1959.
  — Andrew Freeman, Outside Online, 21 May 2012
• The sources of these emissions include everything from single-use pipette tips in research labs, to the solvents used to make drugs, to the ultra-cold freezers that store vaccines.
  — Betsy Ladyzhets, STAT, 28 Sep. 2023
• To prevent stress, the corals are strictly monitored by students who hand-feed them with pipettes, like mamas tending to baby birds.
  — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 25 June 2018
• As the sun rose on Wednesday morning, a scientist used a pipette to remove liquid from each tube and place it in the testing apparatus.
  — Rukmini Callimachi, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2020
• But what about all the other tiny details of an experiment that might be subject to the same exactitude—the time of day, the indoor temperature, the size of the pipettes, and so on?
  — Daniel Engber, Slate Magazine, 5 May 2017
• The set comes with six different dye colors, plus clothespins and rubber bands to make the patterns, pipettes to get dye in hard-to-reach places and gloves and tablecloths to keep things (relatively) clean.
  — Rachel Rothman, Good Housekeeping, 18 July 2023
• Even beyond that, small elements that are used in research labs across the country, like pipette tips, fell into short supply during the height of the Covid pandemic.
  — Allison Deangelis, STAT, 16 Sep. 2022
• Bhamla returned to the pond with a bottle of water and a pipette to collect rejuvenated worms that were starting to form small tangles of life.
  — Eric Niiler, Wired, 17 Feb. 2021
• The only known approach that would permit combining all of them in one desktop machine was to use robots wielding pipettes.
  — John Carreyrou, WIRED, 21 May 2018
• But this approach had an inherent flaw: Over time, a pipette’s accuracy drifts.
  — John Carreyrou, WIRED, 21 May 2018
• The researchers used pipettes to collect samples of water from puddles on sidewalks near Marymount’s campus.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Feb. 2023
• The kit also includes food-grade plastic tubing, pipettes and syringe, and metal measuring spoons and a strainer.
  — Kathy Ceceri, WIRED, 26 June 2012
• The health care worker then puts the sample in liquid in a specimen transfer tube and uses a pipette to move it into a small tube in the cartridge that holds the testing reagents, or ingredients.
  — Amos Zeeberg, Wired, 14 Apr. 2020
• Many of them say the biggest challenge is getting not the diagnostic tests themselves but the supplies to process them, including chemical reagents, swabs and pipettes.
  — Abby Goodnough, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2020
• Other problems that harm embryos can crop up in routine medical practice, Dr. Sparks said, like an embryo adhering to the side of a pipette, or a biopsy not going well.
  — Sarah Kliff, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024