How to Use laboratory in a Sentence

laboratory

noun
  • For now, the project is still in the laboratory stage.
    — New Atlas, 25 May 2026
  • The laboratories used to work five days a week.
    — Carmen Sesin, NBC news, 18 Mar. 2026
  • And, third, there are some things that laboratory rats just won’t do.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Jan. 2026
  • The only way to know for sure that a bloom is harmful is to test it in a laboratory.
    — Julia Ries, Outside Online, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Siekmann drove to a state laboratory in the city with the bottle on the seat next to him.
    — Chicago Tribune, 22 Sep. 2022
  • But at the time the research just looked like something that would be used in the laboratory.
    — Matthew Herper, STAT, 3 Nov. 2022
  • The sprawling laboratory space is spread out across three rooms.
    — Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Now, almost all of the samples that come to his laboratory are delta.
    — Erin Allday, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Nov. 2021
  • And of course, my home was the laboratory to test everything out.
    — Lizz Schumer, People.com, 29 Oct. 2024
  • The substance has been sent to a state laboratory for more testing.
    — Arkansas Online, 30 Jan. 2026
  • But none of these have made an impact outside the laboratory.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Mar. 2023
  • For six years, the animals were kept in a laboratory with no view of the outdoors.
    — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2022
  • The final week of the season will be a laboratory, readying the team for when the games count.
    — Sports Columnist, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Apr. 2026
  • At the laboratory, multiple reels of the film, each in an old metal can, were piled in stacks.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Although the team has proven the concept at a laboratory scale, the finish line isn’t here yet.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 16 Mar. 2026
  • First, there is a shortage of laboratory rats.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Females are not released but may be used for breeding in the laboratory.
    — Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 4 June 2026
  • The protein in the vaccine is produced by cells in a laboratory.
    — Carolyn Y. Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 4 May 2023
  • Which is why laboratories and startups have been working on ways to make greener kinds of cement.
    — Alex Knapp, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • However, the researchers are careful to note that their study was done on cells in a laboratory dish.
    — Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 July 2025
  • One boy pointed the real gun out the laboratory window at people in the street.
    — Dan Romer, Quartz, 22 Oct. 2021
  • The dolphins were sent to a state laboratory where a necropsy will be performed, the center said.
    — Teddy Grant, ABC News, 21 Mar. 2023
  • One set of where-the-heck-did-that-come-from claims is that the Andes virus somehow came from a laboratory.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • The sample was then sent to the state forensic laboratory, police said.
    — Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 17 Apr. 2025
  • The second group will live in a ground laboratory in flight equipment, serving as a control group.
    — Leonard David, Space.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • But, for now, the samples will remain frozen in a laboratory freezer.
    — Chris Baraniuk, WIRED, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The results held even when researchers took tests out of the workplace and into the laboratory.
    — Nedra Rhone, ajc, 7 Dec. 2022
  • The eastern front is a live laboratory, and every military’s eyes are fixed on it.
    — Samanth Subramanian, WIRED, 5 Oct. 2023
  • That weakness is even more pronounced in a laboratory.
    — ArsTechnica, 23 Apr. 2026
  • This laboratory, and who was working there, might be the key to unraveling the truth.
    — Mark Johnson, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Mar. 2023

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