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
  • Let no one in a lab coat ever try to find a new model for that.
    — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Jan. 2021
  • Jared Padalecki may soon trade in his fire jacket for a lab coat.
    — Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Murphy has since been gifted his own miniature lab coat.
    — Alexandra Di Palma, Vogue, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Khosla, a white lab coat enveloping her slight frame, rolled closer in her chair.
    — ProPublica, 9 May 2021
  • 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
  • People assume a scientist is a white guy with a beard and lab coat.
    — Robert Clark, National Geographic, 2 June 2018
  • But critics found the image of her in a lab coat irresistible.
    — Ashley Hoffman, Time, 20 Mar. 2018
  • This summer one billboard showed a smiling young woman in a lab coat with gloves.
    — Abe Streep, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Wong still worries about seeing a lab coat on the rack during a fitting for a new show.
    — Karen Ho, GQ, 27 June 2018
  • The photos also saw the star donning a white lab coat but neither gloves nor a hair net.
    — Alexandra Del Rosariostaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2022
  • His light-blue lab coat detaches simply at the waist, thanks to a row of buttons.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 11 June 2018
  • Varied scenes — a suburban home, a doctor in white lab coat — flash by.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2024
  • There’s a snowman, there’s a little rat in a lab coat with cheese poking out of his pocket.
    — Josh Chesler, SPIN, 1 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • Have Eyes 3 attire (which is to say a dirty lab coat covered in black feathers).
    — Lia Beck, refinery29.com, 15 Oct. 2020
  • An actor and conservative podcast host dressed in a white lab coat.
    — New York Times, 6 Feb. 2021
  • Black pants, charcoal pants, striped shorts, a long white jacket that looks like a high-fashion lab coat next to a light gray zip-up.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2022
  • It’s been scientifically proven (by me, just now, in a lab coat).
    — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 7 July 2023
  • There are 67 finalists, which include a llama, sliced bagel, a tooth and a lab coat.
    — Meredith Cohn, baltimoresun.com, 20 Sep. 2017
  • One morning in the school’s herb lab, blue rubber gloves and a lab coat concealed Williams’s huge tattooed arms.
    — Elif Batuman, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Sharief appears in campaign literature in a white lab coat and a stethoscope.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 26 July 2024
  • Half of the students in the meta-analysis drew scientists wearing lab coats.
    — Ben Guarino, chicagotribune.com, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Hall, who has short salt-and-pepper hair and often wears a lab coat, originally trained as a physicist.
    — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
  • The handheld device could be carried around in a lab coat pocket and used to perform blood tests at a patient’s bedside.
    — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 15 June 2021
  • Hesse put on a red hairnet, a blue lab coat, and a pair of white plastic clogs—mandatory cavewear—and made her way down a spiral staircase.
    — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • About 15 of the marchers wore white lab coats, most of them medical students from area universities.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • So, Murthy lied and is now doing the bidding of his boss in an election year while masquerading in a white lab coat and stethoscope.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 19 July 2024

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