test-tube

Example Sentences

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It comprised a brick-coloured concoction bubbling away in a test tube.

From BBC • Apr. 21, 2025

You can buy a little extra test tube to help your sorting process by watching about 90 seconds of ads.

From Slate • Dec. 28, 2024

Daniel Perez, an influenza researcher at the University of Georgia, is doing his own test tube study of pasteurization of milk spiked with a different avian influenza virus.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 22, 2024

“Sometimes we see effects in the test tube that we don’t necessarily see repeated in animals or humans.”

From National Geographic • Feb. 8, 2024

We are fascinated by him, goggled and bent over the stove a clamped test tube protruding from his gloved hand.

From "Brown Girl Dreaming" by Jacqueline Woodson