How to Use lab coat in a Sentence

lab coat

noun
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  • Varied scenes — a suburban home, a doctor in white lab coat — flash by.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Samuel wears a white lab coat like the ones worn by doctors.
    — Adam Satariano, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Let no one in a lab coat ever try to find a new model for that.
    — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Jan. 2021
  • If fascism comes to America, will it come wrapped in a lab coat?
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 7 Aug. 2021
  • The photos also saw the star donning a white lab coat but neither gloves nor a hair net.
    — Alexandra Del Rosariostaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Have Eyes 3 attire (which is to say a dirty lab coat covered in black feathers).
    — Lia Beck, refinery29.com, 15 Oct. 2020
  • But critics found the image of her in a lab coat irresistible.
    — Ashley Hoffman, Time, 20 Mar. 2018
  • His light-blue lab coat detaches simply at the waist, thanks to a row of buttons.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 11 June 2018
  • Wong still worries about seeing a lab coat on the rack during a fitting for a new show.
    — Karen Ho, GQ, 27 June 2018
  • One person wears what appears to be a doctor’s lab coat.
    — Abigail Williams, NBC News, 30 Jan. 2024
  • There’s a snowman, there’s a little rat in a lab coat with cheese poking out of his pocket.
    — Josh Chesler, SPIN, 1 Feb. 2023
  • People assume a scientist is a white guy with a beard and lab coat.
    — Robert Clark, National Geographic, 2 June 2018
  • Khosla, a white lab coat enveloping her slight frame, rolled closer in her chair.
    — ProPublica, 9 May 2021
  • One morning in the school’s herb lab, blue rubber gloves and a lab coat concealed Williams’s huge tattooed arms.
    — Elif Batuman, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2018
  • There are 67 finalists, which include a llama, sliced bagel, a tooth and a lab coat.
    — Meredith Cohn, baltimoresun.com, 20 Sep. 2017
  • The new video sees Grande play the part of a scientist in a high-tech lab (complete with a white lab coat and sky-high white platforms to match, of course).
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 17 Nov. 2020
  • The door flung open and Dr. Beitner sprinted in, lab coat flapping behind her.
    — Charlie Dektar, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Who organized the the white lab coat 'press conference'?
    — Joel Shannon, USA TODAY, 30 July 2020
  • Black pants, charcoal pants, striped shorts, a long white jacket that looks like a high-fashion lab coat next to a light gray zip-up.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2022
  • This summer one billboard showed a smiling young woman in a lab coat with gloves.
    — Abe Streep, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • The statue is almost 20 feet tall (6 meters) and shows a woman in a lab coat, mask and gloves stretching toward the sky.
    — David Williams, CNN, 18 June 2020
  • See the man in his Army uniform, see the man in his lab coat, see the man in his worker’s coveralls, his leather apron, his hazmat suit.
    — Laia Garcia-Furtado, Vogue, 20 July 2023
  • The guy in the white lab coat should simply give the public the facts about the president’s condition and treatment and leave the spin to the usual suspects.
    — The Editors, National Review, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Half of the students in the meta-analysis drew scientists wearing lab coats.
    — Ben Guarino, chicagotribune.com, 21 Mar. 2018
  • The bronze statue in the Capitol building shows a woman sitting sideways in a chair, wearing a starched lab coat over a skirt and high-heeled shoes.
    — Eliza McGraw, Smithsonian, 6 July 2018
  • The chicken buttons her feathered lab coat, tucks a clipboard under wing and turns to her work: curing the common cold.
    — Leah Eskin, chicagotribune.com, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Hesse put on a red hairnet, a blue lab coat, and a pair of white plastic clogs—mandatory cavewear—and made her way down a spiral staircase.
    — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2021
  • In Semmelweis’ time, a dirty and bloodstained lab coat was a badge of honor, Saunders-Hastings says.
    — Emily Sohn, Popular Mechanics, 2 Apr. 2020
  • The handheld device could be carried around in a lab coat pocket and used to perform blood tests at a patient’s bedside.
    — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 15 June 2021

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