pipette

Example Sentences

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With a pipette, she places a single drop of this liquid on a gold-coated glass plate positioned under an optical microscope.

From Science Daily • Oct. 23, 2025

Holding a pipette carefully in one hand, Laxamana talked through the radio to troubleshoot the problem.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2024

As the naira plunged and pump prices increased several times, the government, aware of the potential danger of protests, continued to pipette some medicine to the masses.

From BBC • Nov. 17, 2024

Terrica Purvis squinted through goggles as her hands carefully guided a pipette full of indigo-tinted fluid into clear glass test tubes.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 24, 2023

She sucked each square into a pipette, and dropped them one at a time onto chicken-blood clots she’d placed at the bottom of dozens of test tubes.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot