Example Sentences

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Its lab, with a row of bikes parked inside the front door, hums quietly with workers in protective gear moving between beakers, kilns and mineral samples being tested for durability and composition.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 10, 2025

The researchers collected seeds and placed them onto special brown paper, which was then rolled into a cigar shape and stored upright in narrow glass beakers.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2024

They also delivered more than two times the venom by weight into the beakers, even though they were on average about 21% smaller than the mainland snakes.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 3, 2024

Numerous studies have found that students—even those from non-Western cultures—view scientists as white, male, and wearing a white lab coat, while holding chemistry glassware such as beakers or flasks.

From Scientific American • Nov. 8, 2023

They had restored thousands of bowls, bottles, vases, cups, jars, jugs, beakers, and plates in more than two hundred different shapes.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler