How to Use pipette in a Sentence

pipette

noun
  • The pipettes would pile up, and all that plastic waste just seemed wrong to her.
    — Alice Bell, CNN, 5 Nov. 2019
  • The memories emerge drip by drip, as if from the tip of a pipette.
    — Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2020
  • These kinds of motions are like taking water out of the ocean with a pipette.
    — Katherine Dunn, Fortune, 14 Feb. 2020
  • Where another lab might have pipettes, this one had shot glasses.
    — Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
  • This then works like an acoustic pipette, blasting the mixture with sound waves.
    — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 21 Oct. 2024
  • One by one, Rawashdeh used a small pipette to move the larvae into paper cups.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 May 2022
  • Hours more are spent picking out pinprick-size predators from the water with pipettes.
    — Nathan Rott, NPR, 27 May 2026
  • One day the kitchen staff lent me out to a lab for the afternoon to hand-wash delicate glass beakers and pipettes.
    — Literary Hub, 15 May 2026
  • Apply 2-3 pipettes along the hairline and other areas of hair loss.
    — Kiana Murden, Vogue, 13 Apr. 2022
  • And scientists have a hard time imagining what research might look like without pipette tips.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Apr. 2021
  • By using one’s oral cavity with the pipette to measure and transfer liquids.
    — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 20 Mar. 2013
  • Teenagers wearing safety goggles squat down, sucking up samples of the clear liquid with pipettes.
    — Stacy Teicher Khadaroo, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 June 2017
  • To spread the mixture out, Zoll gently taps it with the tip of a pipette dipped in a surfactant—dish soap in this case.
    — Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Using a pipette or a dropper, apply five drops (about ¼ teaspoon) of mineral oil at the tip of each corn ear.
    — oregonlive, 9 July 2023
  • If that didn’t prevent the irritation, the protists used their cilia to spit water at the pipette.
    — Claire L. Evans, Quanta Magazine, 30 July 2025
  • New tweaks to the formula are made easy with a large enough tray, a small enough pipette and an astronaut willing to take some direction.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 5 June 2018
  • To use, apply three to four pipettes along your hairline and part after washing your hair, then gently massage the serum into your scalp.
    — Nicol Natale, Peoplemag, 17 May 2023
  • If the swab is tested manually, a scientist will use a pipette to put the assay kit onto the sample.
    — Ivan Watson, CNN, 12 Mar. 2020
  • To prevent stress, the corals are strictly monitored by students who hand-feed them with pipettes, like mamas tending to baby birds.
    — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 25 June 2018
  • In contrast, when a paper is posted as a preprint, the authors’ peers still review it, but their vetting isn’t forced through the tip of a pipette.
    — Simine Vazire, Wired, 25 June 2020
  • Or, use the oil as a deep-conditioning treatment by rubbing a full pipette into the palms and smoothing the product through mid-lengths to ends.
    — Jenny Berg, Vogue, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Gently move the pipette end from one vessel and release your precious cargo into yet another vessel.
    — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 20 Mar. 2013
  • The kit also includes food-grade plastic tubing, pipettes and syringe, and metal measuring spoons and a strainer.
    — Kathy Ceceri, WIRED, 26 June 2012
  • Holding a pipette carefully in one hand, Laxamana talked through the radio to troubleshoot the problem.
    — Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2024
  • The researchers used pipettes to collect samples of water from puddles on sidewalks near Marymount’s campus.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Then, under a microscope, the nucleus of an oocyte is sucked out with a tiny pipette and replaced with the nucleus from a skin cell of the dog who’s being cloned.
    — Alexandra Horowitz, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
  • Bhamla returned to the pond with a bottle of water and a pipette to collect rejuvenated worms that were starting to form small tangles of life.
    — Eric Niiler, Wired, 17 Feb. 2021
  • As the sun rose on Wednesday morning, a scientist used a pipette to remove liquid from each tube and place it in the testing apparatus.
    — Rukmini Callimachi, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2020
  • Martí Gutierrez moved the dish over to a larger microscope, equipped with pipettes manipulated by joysticks.
    — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2023
  • The sources of these emissions include everything from single-use pipette tips in research labs, to the solvents used to make drugs, to the ultra-cold freezers that store vaccines.
    — Betsy Ladyzhets, STAT, 28 Sep. 2023

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