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

Dumbledore took from an inside pocket another crystal phial and Harry fell silent at once, remembering that Dumbledore had said it was the most important one he had collected.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling