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
She held up a small crystal phial: it glittered as she moved it, and rays of white light sprang from her hand.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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