phial

Example Sentences

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Take human blood, put it in a glass phial and keep it covered in dung for forty days.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 7, 2019

Suddenly, a phial of manna fell to the pavement and broke.

From Salon • Dec. 25, 2018

What he delivered instead was a small, stoppered phial, neatly labelled “Art and Culture/Clement Greenberg/Distillation 1966”.

From The Guardian • Apr. 9, 2016

The experience was certainly straightforward - a welcoming staffer put a soothing warm wrapper on my finger, a pin prick which I hardly felt, and then a small phial of blood filled in a second.

From BBC • Aug. 14, 2014

Cold and hard it seemed as his grip closed on it: the phial of Galadriel, so long treasured, and almost forgotten till that hour.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien