How to Use reagent in a Sentence

reagent

noun

• Then the swab is joined with a test strip and a liquid reagent.
  — Karen Kaplan Science and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2021
• The children walk hand in hand through a forest of reagents.
  — Sandra Simonds, The New Republic, 3 Apr. 2020
• But two of the three chemicals, called reagents, didn't work.
  — Jessie Balmert, Cincinnati.com, 6 Apr. 2020
• To conduct the test, blood is drawn and added to a reagent solution.
  — Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 17 May 2017
• Despite all of that, Jilly said there’s still a risk that the state could run out of reagents.
  — Author: Kyle Hopkins, Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Mar. 2020
• The reagent caused the sample to change color according to the amount of sugar present in the urine.
  — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 5 May 2021
• The Abbott kit comes with a nasal swab, reagent solution and a test card.
  — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2021
• The state placed $60 million in bulk orders of testing reagents.
  — Elizabeth Depompei, The Indianapolis Star, 10 June 2020
• First the liquid sample is mixed with a liquid reagent.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 27 Jan. 2017
• But the hospital has too few of the swabs and chemical reagents needed to run the tests, which are in short supply around the globe.
  — Catherine Ho, SFChronicle.com, 19 Apr. 2020
• At the end of the experiment the teacher went around and added a reagent to some of the cups, and the liquid in some of the cups turned purple, while the others stayed clear.
  — Lux Alptraum, SELF, 6 Sep. 2017
• A sensor is inserted into the small LeadCare unit and the blood-reagent mix is added to the sensor.
  — Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 17 May 2017
• To use the BinaxNOW test, a healthcare worker lays the card flat, adds extraction reagent to the test card, and takes a nasal swab from the patient.
  — Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Oct. 2020
• But the testing kits require a crucial reagent that the hospital ran short on.
  — The Atlantic, 20 Mar. 2020
• The reagents are used to isolate the genetic material from the virus.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 19 Mar. 2020
• These broths have been developed for decades, and since most cells are grown on plastic, that's what the reagents have been optimized for.
  — Alice Bell, CNN, 5 Nov. 2019
• To run clotting tests, labs mix a compound, called reagent, with patient samples.
  — Ellen Gabler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2021
• There have been shortages of the cotton swabs needed to do the nasal test as well as the reagent required to mix with the sample in the laboratory.
  — Dave Altimari, courant.com, 15 Aug. 2020
• As with fentanyl test strips, these pieces of paper have a reagent that can help users detect whether a drug has any xylaxine in it.
  — Nadia Kounang, CNN, 28 Mar. 2023
• In February and early March, the testing kits were missing a solution called a reagent, so the tests could not be used.
  — Anne Saker, Cincinnati.com, 19 Mar. 2020
• To administer the test, a healthcare worker opens a card—which is about the size of a driver’s license—and adds a few drops of a liquid called a reagent.
  — Claire Maldarelli, Popular Science, 2 Dec. 2020
• Illinois has three state labs that run tests but Pritzker said not enough tests are available and there is a nationwide shortage of reagent.
  — John Tozzi, Bloomberg.com, 15 May 2020
• Results from the test come 15 minutes after performing the nasal swab and placing it inside a card with a test strip and reagent included in the kit.
  — John Pana, cleveland, 9 Aug. 2021
• The team found that the basement bathroom was cleaned after utilizing a blue star chemical reagent.
  — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 1 Dec. 2022
• The blockade also disrupted shipments to Qatar of lab reagents and equipment, which came mostly from UAE.
  — Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | AAAS, 18 Dec. 2017
• Testing could soon be hampered by a shortage of reagents, caused in part by the disruption of supply chains in Asia, Osterholm notes.
  — Science News Staff, Science | AAAS, 1 Apr. 2020
• Hogan said over the weekend that governors were trying to use private labs, but were stymied by shortages of swabs and reagents needed for testing.
  — NBC News, 22 Apr. 2020
• The problem, according to doctors, is not so much a lack of donors as a shortage of the seven reagents that test donated blood for infections.
  — Rachelle Krygier, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2018
• Shi called hospitals all over Wuhan, trying in vain to find one with the confirmation test -- a reagent test which chemically tests for the virus.
  — Julia Hollingsworth, CNN, 30 Jan. 2020
• In the case of salt, for example — probably the most important for runners — the process uses a reagent that reacts with its chloride to turn it purple.
  — Richard A. Lovett, Outside Online, 11 Dec. 2020

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024