How to Use lab coat in a Sentence

lab coat

noun
  • Why are they joined at the hip as the lab coat crew?
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Murphy has since been gifted his own miniature lab coat.
    — Alexandra Di Palma, Vogue, 2 Apr. 2026
  • But a decade ago, his life looked very different, complete with a desk and a lab coat.
    — Stephanie Kuzydym, Louisville Courier Journal, 13 Nov. 2025
  • And then someone rode in with some answers — not a man in a white hat, like a movie hero, but a man in a white lab coat.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Without contrast, adds Simon, the look might come off as too clinical, like a doctor's lab coat.
    — Katherine J Igoe, InStyle, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Holly races them out to the mine shaft, past the memory of the injured guy in the lab coat, but again, Henry follows.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 1 Jan. 2026
  • The defendant allegedly refused to wear a lab coat when supervisors were not present.
    — Robert McGreevy, FOXNews.com, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Inside a lab in Redland, behind double doors that require a lab coat to enter, a team of scientists is breeding a tiny terror.
    — Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Dwight materialized out of nowhere, a supernatural mad scientist, beardless and almost unrecognizable in a white lab coat.
    — Literary Hub, 15 May 2026
  • Customers' perennial favorite is the unisex lab coat, a medina work jacket worn by Bachner's oldest weaver, Mohamed Ait Lahcen.
    — Tara Stevens, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 June 2021
  • For years the industry warned that its own creations were too dangerous to ship, going all the way back to OpenAI staging the GPT-2 release in 2019 and withholding the full model over misuse fears, and most of us read the danger talk as marketing wearing a lab coat.
    — Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • At just 3 months old, North was gifted several outfits during Paris Fashion Week — including a leather dress from Alexander Wang, a mini white lab coat from Maison Martin Margiela, a custom Bambi tee from Givenchy and cozy menswear-style sweaters and snakeskin slip-ons from Céline.
    — Lydia Price, PEOPLE, 15 June 2026
  • Nicole Kidman doesn’t tremble or get squeamish putting on the white lab coat of Kay Scarpetta, chief medical examiner at the heart of Patricia Cornwell's series of crime thriller novels, now adapted for a Prime Video show by Amazon MGM Studios and Blumhouse Television.
    — Erin Jensen, USA Today, 10 Mar. 2026

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