swabber

Example Sentences

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As the days passed, the first colleague through the line each morning would text a scouting report to the rest of us about the aggressiveness of the swabber.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2022

The swabber working in the mobile Covid testing van parked at Conference House Park, Jesse Henry, said he was not vaccinated.

From New York Times • Jul. 23, 2021

Maybe five seconds per nostril with a six-inch swabber that reaches the sinus cavity where COVID-19 likes to live.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 7, 2020

For the duty even of a swabber, he does not consider himself too high, but washes the deck most delicately clean.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 by Various

Two men would rush to the muzzle with the swabber, give it a few quick turns in the bore, then throw down the swabber and grab up the rammer.

From The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 by Stillwell, Leander