How to Use lab in a Sentence

lab

noun
  • The researchers are headed back to the lab to find out more.
    — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 22 Sep. 2022
  • The duo has been using mice at the lab to run basic tests for the soap.
    — Esme Mazzeo, Peoplemag, 15 Aug. 2024
  • The healthcare provider will collect your blood and then send it off to a lab.
    — Rachel Swalin, Health, 7 Apr. 2024
  • One area of focus for many labs has been open-source AI.
    — Ryan Browne, CNBC, 4 Feb. 2025
  • The microbes were harvested from the ground at the airport and bred in a lab.
    — Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Plans for the school call for STEM labs, music and fine arts spaces.
    — Alec Johnson, Journal Sentinel, 16 Oct. 2024
  • The perfumer’s kind of gardening doesn’t happen in the fields, but in a lab.
    — Nerisha Penrose, ELLE, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Outside of the dream, in the lab, their arms were stationary, but their eyes were not.
    — Alisa Bowman, Discover Magazine, 22 Dec. 2022
  • The bag was taken to a lab, where Phillips' DNA was pulled from saliva on a napkin.
    — CBS News, 19 Nov. 2022
  • The polyp is then sent to a lab to be examined by a pathologist.
    — Heather Jones, Verywell Health, 12 July 2024
  • But the idea that the virus might have originated in a lab never went away.
    — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 26 Jan. 2025
  • However, the bridge’s cables that had to bear that weight weren’t changed, the lab report said.
    — Krishna Pokharel, WSJ, 6 Nov. 2022
  • During the lab test, the Handy Laundry dryer balls stood out in every way.
    — Alida Nugent, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Jan. 2024
  • The bones will be sent to the state crime lab for further analysis, Meredith said.
    — David Williams, CNN, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Woll's blood swab and the jacket were both sent to a state forensic lab in December.
    — Andrea May Sahouri, Detroit Free Press, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Until that point, there will be 11 on board the orbiting lab.
    — Mark Davis, Newsweek, 16 Mar. 2025
  • Our testers put 37 vacuums through a series of challenges both in the lab and at home.
    — Melanie Rud, Peoplemag, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Over the course of two days, five product testers went to our lab in Des Moines, Iowa, and put 27 humidifiers to the test.
    — Jamie Weissman, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Dec. 2022
  • The fake event horizon even showed signs of glowing in the lab where the researchers created it.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 20 Nov. 2022
  • We got invited to show it at that first lab and people loved it.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Scientists have long been trying to grow models of the human brain in the lab.
    — Monique Brouillette, Popular Mechanics, 13 Jan. 2023
  • For Mi-kyung ( Lee Sun-bin) any threat to the potato lab is a declaration of war.
    — Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
  • But few hospitals have the funds to fuel a WGS lab—much less to pay for each patient's test.
    — Alexis Kayser, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Overall, our lab noted that these were a great find for hot sleepers.
    — Amy Schulman, Peoplemag, 27 Mar. 2024
  • But there’s still a long way to go until cubic boron arsenide can be used outside of the lab.
    — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 16 Aug. 2022
  • As for the sweatshirt that looked like Nevaeh’s grandmother’s, the detective sent it to the lab for testing.
    — Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 1 June 2023
  • Other groups are trying to grow human organs from stem cells in the lab.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Led by Speakman, my lab joined a dozen others around the world in pooling decades of data.
    — Herman Pontzer, Scientific American, 12 Dec. 2022
  • What's better The power of a suitcase lab: For years, something has irked Erik Karlsson.
    — Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The world may never know for certain whether the pandemic originated from an animal-to-human spillover or a lab leak.
    — Dr. Céline Gounder, CBS News, 13 Mar. 2025

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