How to Use test tube in a Sentence

test tube

noun

• The room in which to turn around has the square footage of a test tube.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 July 2023
• At the bottom of the test tube are the white blood cells.
  — Mark Johnson and Kathleen Gallagher, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Dec. 2010
• The plate and test tube are left in a nice warm place for 24 hours.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 11 Oct. 2017
• Put a portion of one’s poop in a test tube, write the date on it, and send it to the lab.
  — Lauren Weber, CNN, 10 Mar. 2022
• But Braschi invites us to drink it in a test tube, rather than bite and chew it.
  — Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 17 Mar. 2022
• The swab goes back into the test tube, cap on, and the sample is handed to the physician.
  — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 11 Aug. 2020
• Pour shots into test tubes, leaving space at the top for the test cube cork.
  — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 2 Aug. 2023
• The worms lived on the station for five weeks in test tubes filled with half water and half air.
  — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 13 June 2017
• Bailey hands the test tube to DeLuca and barks at him to run it directly to the lab.
  — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 10 Apr. 2020
• Plant cells grow in test tubes in a sterile chamber at Ayana Bio.
  — Nicole Kagan, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2023
• That’s what matters — not what ended up in some test tube.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 30 Sep. 2019
• Dissolve the bead, collect all the liquid in the bottom of the test tube, then stick it in the Detect hub to process for an hour.
  — Anthony Karcz, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021
• The dirty tester puts the swab in the test tube, seals it, and then drops it into a biohazard bag that the clean tester is holding.
  — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 21 Mar. 2020
• Police searched the trash and found a test tube with cannabis and a smoking pipe, according to the report.
  — Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com, 26 Mar. 2018
• Wasser said, pulling a large plastic test tube out of a freezer.
  — Kate Brooks, Smithsonian, 30 Sep. 2017
• Now, those minor-league test tube bonus babies are nearly ready for the bigs.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 17 July 2022
• The usual sense of being thrown together in a show biz test tube eludes them.
  — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 4 Apr. 2022
• All of the animals were made female to avoid non-test tube breeding.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 26 Aug. 2020
• The study found that oleandrin could block the coronavirus in monkey cells in a test tube.
  — Heather Murphy New York Times, Star Tribune, 27 Aug. 2020
• An above-ground, nearly mile-long test tube installed on the streets of Hawthorne has now been removed at the city’s request.
  — Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2022
• First, infection in a test tube is not the same as infection in a person.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
• Emoji 11 takes some science-minded strides, with glyphs for goggles, a lab coat, a test tube, a petri dish, and DNA.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 8 Feb. 2018
• In the lab, a chemist carefully pours a clear solution into a flask from a series of test tubes.
  — Frances Vinall, Washington Post, 29 June 2023
• Yes, 12 nights of wine, each glass’s worth delivered in a fancy test tube-esque vial.
  — Cady Lang, Time, 19 Dec. 2019
• But first, the rover had to actually capture a chunk of rock in a test tube-sized container.
  — Ramin Skibba, Wired, 2 Sep. 2021
• Those clumps, which become large enough for gravity to send them sinking through the solution in the test tube, fall to the bottom.
  — Melina Walling, The Arizona Republic, 15 Feb. 2022
• The authors of the study, which was conducted in a lab in test tubes and not on human subjects, said the results showed the need for further testing.
  — Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 14 July 2023
• But when the researchers added UV light to the mix, the test tube was completely sterilized within 30 seconds.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 6 July 2017
• Early studies on ivermectin appear to show that the drug could have some impact on the coronavirus in a test tube.
  — Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Sep. 2021
• Workers placed the day’s work — hundreds of test tubes in plastic bags — into two large boxes covered in ice packs.
  — Rukmini Callimachi, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2020

Last Updated: 28 May 2024