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  • Fortunately, no one else was around when the lab blew up.   (source)
  • In the lab at school there was a human brain preserved in formaldehyde, and the seniors preparing for college had to take it out and look at it and study it.   (source)
  • She removed the sleeve and cauterized a patch of lab-grown skin over the open wound.   (source)
    lab = related to a place that does medical work
  • It contains a stove (thanks to the fact hat it used to be Mr. Kugler's laboratory) and a sink.   (source)
    laboratory = a workplace where people do scientific or medical research
  • In the vast laboratories of the Ministry of Peace, and in the experimental stations hidden in the Brazilian forests, or in the Australian desert, or on lost islands of the Antarctic, the teams of experts are indefatigably at work.   (source)
    laboratories = workplaces where people do scientific or medical research
  • Above were the search laboratories and the padded rooms in which Sound-Track Writers and Synthetic Composers did the delicate work.   (source)
    laboratories = workplaces where people do scientific research
  • Looked at so closely one sees the fine sand is composed of millions of the tiniest pebbles, as clear as if they had been made in a laboratory.   (source)
    laboratory = a workplace where people do scientific work
  • On the other side of the house, old Roger Chillingworth arranged his study and laboratory: not such as a modern man of science would reckon even tolerably complete, but provided with a distilling apparatus and the means of compounding drugs and chemicals, which the practised alchemist knew well how to turn to purpose.   (source)
    laboratory = workplace for scientific or medical research
  • He then took me into his laboratory and explained to me the uses of his various machines, instructing me as to what I ought to procure and promising me the use of his own when I should have advanced far enough in the science not to derange their mechanism.   (source)
  • The doctor called because of an "urgent finding" on my lab results.†   (source)
  • This is no herbal concoction that my mother grinds up out of woodland plants, it's high-tech medicine brewed up in the Capitol's labs.†   (source)
  • Roy listened closely for footsteps—sneaking footsteps—but heard only the tick-tick-tick of the clock mounted above the door to the science lab.†   (source)
  • I need to run a lab test on that sputum sample, but there's really not much doubt—the crackle in your right lung is pronounced.†   (source)
  • I let out a frustrated sigh and Matt, my lab partner, gives me a funny look.†   (source)
  • Show her the lab, maybe?†   (source)
  • A white lab coat and stethoscope do not a doctor make, and a dozen trips to the Sears hardware department do not a handyman make.†   (source)
  • The lab wasn't very big.†   (source)
  • In 2007, Idaho National Labs conducted a cyberattack exercise with the Department of Energy.†   (source)
  • During my third-grade science fair project, Mom helped at every stage—from planning the project to assisting with lab notes to assembling the presentation.†   (source)
  • We also had a mixed black Lab, Scamper, whom Cassie and Chris would ride like a horse.†   (source)
  • The dog, a pesky black Lab named Bark, took quickly to Thomas, hanging at his feet the entire tour.†   (source)
  • We went to school together at the University of Cape Town and studied culture and reconciliation—a subject for which post-apartheid South Africa had become a living laboratory.†   (source)
  • They'll assume it was a drug-lab accident.†   (source)
  • She has in her arms a dry-cleaned white lab coat in a protective plastic film.†   (source)
  • Six or seven times larger than even the most luxurious of office spaces, the knight's cabinet de travail resembled an ungainly hybrid of science laboratory, archival library, and indoor flea market.†   (source)
  • The pathologist subsequently performed an autopsy at the Department of Forensic Sciences laboratory in Mobile.†   (source)
  • The science labs were old.†   (source)
  • He mentioned some of the achievements the school had made, and he emphasized how much they needed support at the Community Day Bake Sale to start a new computer lab.†   (source)
  • But a grappling hook was all Violet could think of to make without a proper inventing laboratory, and time was running short.†   (source)
  • My parents were Dutch scientists, killed in a laboratory accident when I was a baby.†   (source)
  • It's like the control insects at the laboratory.†   (source)
  • But Reardan has one of the best small schools in the state, with a computer room and huge chemistry lab and a drama club and two basketball gyms.†   (source)
  • We are human lab rats.†   (source)
  • Then he and I were paired up for a science lab.†   (source)
  • Which lab is that?†   (source)
  • She did not shine at all in science courses, especially those pivoting on experiments and lab reports.†   (source)
  • The lab in Batalla Hall.†   (source)
  • A carpeted hall led to a room that smelled like a chemistry lab, where two inappropriately cheerful attendants were loosening the screws on the transfer case—another man stacked the plywood against a far wall.†   (source)
  • "There's another breakthrough in the lab."†   (source)
  • Maybe David Petrakis My Lab Partner.†   (source)
  • "It's more like Dr. Frankenstein's laboratory."†   (source)
  • Laboratory   (source)
  • They locked themselves in their laboratories, and tried to evolve, as gold had.†   (source)
  • This place is like a maze, and me the lab rat.†   (source)
  • In my opinion, if the world were perfect, everyone would wear lab coats in educational settings, but that obviously was not happening.†   (source)
  • When had she stopped working at the lab?†   (source)
  • Speak of this to no one, but at some future time as yet undetermined, I will enter that lab and become the first bionically improved human.†   (source)
  • They're in the bio lab.†   (source)
  • The rest of the students had had lots of prior experience in medicine and laboratory work.†   (source)
  • Molly is tempted to say, Damn, you mean I have to shut down my meth lab?†   (source)
  • He had tucked it into my notebook during our Wednesday lab.†   (source)
  • Strangest of all was Enoch, who disappeared into his basement laboratory to perform experimental surgeries on his clay soldiers that would've made Dr. Frankenstein cringe: amputating the limbs from two to make a hideous spider-man of a third, or cramming four chicken hearts into a single chest cavity in an attempt to create a super-clay-man who would never run out of energy.†   (source)
  • But then his mother had surprised them, pointing out that there would be nothing for her to do in Ohio for nine months, that his father would be busy all day at the lab, and that she preferred to stay in Massachusetts, even if it meant staying in the house alone.†   (source)
  • Now, after years of work and study, he had returned to her laboratory.†   (source)
  • Saget looked at Langan oddly, as if he were some kind of laboratory specimen.†   (source)
  • Brushing against him during labs.†   (source)
  • "What's in lab room 4D?"†   (source)
  • The other was MAN-ANIMAL CELLS BRED IN LAB.†   (source)
  • All except the Hooloovoo were resplendent in their multicolored ceremonial lab coats; the Hooloovoo had been temporarily refracted into a free-standing prism for the occasion.†   (source)
  • I just finished it during computer lab.†   (source)
  • Jason wasn't sure what to expect at the end—a dungeon, a mad scientist's lab, or maybe a sewer reservoir where all Porta-Potty sludge ends up, forming an evil toilet face large enough to swallow the world.†   (source)
  • Next to me my lab partner, Sam Weingarten, was shaking his head.†   (source)
  • It's flavor created from chemicals in a laboratory.†   (source)
  • I saw you yesterday in the labs.†   (source)
  • She's got a chemistry lab to finish.†   (source)
  • I print the e-mail, lab test results and all.†   (source)
  • I know I'm only a student, but I spend a lot of my lab hours working with children who have Asperger's … I've seen it up close, and I've also had the chance to meet a number of the adults my professor had interviewed.†   (source)
  • He works at a lab in Seattle.†   (source)
  • I seem to remember Luke switching lab partners behind your back so he could sit next to her.†   (source)
  • The dentist was tall, sullen, and dirty, with speckles of blood on his lab coat and a pubic mstache.†   (source)
  • The word MOLLE itself is a trademark for the system developed and manufactured by Natick Labs.†   (source)
  • Experiments with laboratory animals in and around the tidal regions had resulted in sudden death for some animals, but the Merlin sickness had not been replicated.†   (source)
  • "Have you done this lab before?" he asked.†   (source)
  • Fred, our obese half-lab yard dog, crouching down with all his hair up and very many teeth showing, facing Hawk who has her neck feathers ruffled out and her beak down as they get ready for head-to-head battle.†   (source)
  • The sun is barely bright, and farther down the driveway, at the very end, you can see Dave's yellow Lab, Mingus, sitting by the mailbox, looking out at the road.†   (source)
  • Holmes had learned that Chappell was an "articulator," meaning he had mastered the art of stripping the flesh from human bodies and reassembling, or articulating, the bones to form complete skeletons for display in doctors' offices and laboratories.†   (source)
  • Did you know he visited my lab?†   (source)
  • At last his patient left and Dr. van Veen took the bottle into his small laboratory.†   (source)
  • He leaned forward over the lab table.†   (source)
  • I had decided it would be my rocket laboratory.†   (source)
  • Probably sold him to a research lab.†   (source)
  • Suddenly the lab was filled with the sweet smell of grapes.†   (source)
  • It was only after I saw them scrawled in my science lab book that I saw what Gramps meant.†   (source)
  • Dad cleaned the cages of snakes, tarantulas, lizards and other animals used in the labs.†   (source)
  • A man described by authorities as one evolutionary step above a banana slug has recently admitted to having been locked in the Sacajawea Junior High biology lab over a long weekend nearly sixteen years ago when he fell asleep and was mistaken as a cadaver.†   (source)
  • This has been proved in the laboratory.†   (source)
  • She looked like a bottled fetus that had escaped from its jar of formaldehyde in a Biology lab and unshriveled and thickened with age.†   (source)
  • He's been a star in my lab.†   (source)
  • It was said they had offered him a fine laboratory and a wonderful villa with an equally wonderful car, after placing him under the wonderful supervision of the Gestapo to make sure he did not run away rather than making as much vaccine as possible for the louse-infested German army in the east.†   (source)
  • Their white lab coats make them seem tall and pure.†   (source)
  • So …. laboratory, then.†   (source)
  • So we got the lab to check it out.†   (source)
  • They met afterward in the laboratory, she found him brooding and nostalgic, and thought it was because of the brutal scenes of wounded men dying in the mud.†   (source)
  • "I've been in the lab."†   (source)
  • All the laboratory evidence is against him.†   (source)
  • It was a thrill to walk into the lab there in the Blaylock Building.†   (source)
  • The laboratory.†   (source)
  • This time, Colton literally skipped all the way to the CT scan lab.†   (source)
  • Next week, when I take you for the lab tests.†   (source)
  • Full-frontal Lab attack!†   (source)
  • The chemistry lab?†   (source)
  • I get to use this house as my studio, my science project, my laboratory, and my showroom.†   (source)
  • They were going to have the newest microscopes and chemistry equipment for their laboratory.†   (source)
  • A late-night biology lab to mix a little chloroform, and pool!†   (source)
  • The medical complex contains two laboratories.†   (source)
  • Now, one day Tom's in his laboratory working on a machine that can see through a brick wall when this man comes in and says, 'Mr.†   (source)
  • All that was needed was a modest amount of laboratory equipment, and that could be found in a chemistry set for children for a few hundred kronor, along with several ingredients that could be extracted from ordinary household products.†   (source)
  • We had blackboards, new desks, reference books, lab supplies.†   (source)
  • Other kids got elected G.O. President and class secretary and lab-squad captain, but I got elected the Bathroom Bomber.†   (source)
  • "Here—I'll do the lab."†   (source)
  • By Friday, when the court recessed for the weekend, the state had completed its case, which included the appearance of four Special Agents of the Bureau of Investigation in Washington, D.C. These men, laboratory technicians skilled in various categories of scientific crime detection, had studied the physical evidence connecting the accused to the murders (blood samples, footprints, cartridge shells, rope and tape), and each of them certified the validity of the exhibits.†   (source)
  • Yes, by the state crime lab.†   (source)
  • Instead, he worked as a lab technician.†   (source)
  • Put them back on the lab table.†   (source)
  • "Now for a look at the workshops," she cried, whisking him through another door and into a large abandoned laboratory full of old pieces of equipment, all untended and rusting.†   (source)
  • His van had been given a thorough going-over by Massachusetts lab technicians and forensic experts.†   (source)
  • I'd have gotten lost, somewhere between gym and the chem lab.†   (source)
  • Taber is wheeled out of the lab on a Gurney bed.†   (source)
  • Who can I infect here in my lab?†   (source)
  • I spilled it in his laboratory.†   (source)
  • My mother is the head of a lab back in Bankston.†   (source)
  • After an awkward moment, Dr. Begbie stuffed her hand back into the pocket of her lab coat, but not before letting it stray over the restraint securing my left hand to the bed's guardrail.†   (source)
  • The lab stuff is mindblowing—better than Thai stick.†   (source)
  • Lab and x-ray were in two connected rooms with people always coming in and out through the swinging doors with their hands full and their shoes squeaking on the black linoleum.†   (source)
  • A behavioral scientist could hardly design a better experiment in his laboratory.†   (source)
  • You don't have a computer lab, or any kind of computer training here?"†   (source)
  • The radiology lab had struck out.†   (source)
  • I didn't see anything wrong with it just as long as I kept in mind that I was old Ellen not a laboratory doctor.†   (source)
  • The lab technician then drew blood from each of them.†   (source)
  • Meth lab in the basement?†   (source)
  • For the next few weeks, Adam was on time for every date, which included taking Kelley's dog, a chocolate Lab named Sidney, to swim at the lake, attending church, and holding hands on long walks.†   (source)
  • With a group of California scientists who dubbed themselves the "Traitorous Eight," after defecting from the laboratory of infamously tempestuous Nobel laureate William Shockley, he had invented a type of integrated circuit that paved the way for the silicon chip.†   (source)
  • They were shown the sports facilities and science labs.†   (source)
  • He was in a laboratory testing himself—proving he could work on human dogs.†   (source)
  • He had a dog with him, a yellow Lab, and he had on worn jeans, too baggy to be fitted but not big enough to be cool, and a blue button-down shirt.†   (source)
  • Technicians from a "pool" lab would develop it.†   (source)
  • Nick Kerrigan is recording it for me in the music lab and he likes me and he'll stay as long as I need.†   (source)
  • The media center was lined with row after row of books—thousands of them—but it also had a very cool, up-to-date computer lab.†   (source)
  • When I let them out into the biology lab for a bit of a fly round, I wouldn't have expected them to eat the curtains.†   (source)
  • "You're at the lab?"†   (source)
  • He shared his doubts with no one, but he took the bottle to his laboratory.†   (source)
  • I stopped at the bio lab, out of breath.†   (source)
  • He runs the computer lab and opens it up before classes begin, mostly for Cedric.†   (source)
  • Our days were filled with classes and laboratories and our nights with study.†   (source)
  • After napping through geometry and accidentally freezing Mrs. Patterson's beaker to the lab table in chemistry, Vlad stumbled into a lunchtime oasis.†   (source)
  • Thus, we have no reason to grieve for a dog being carved up alive in the laboratory.†   (source)
  • I'll arrange for you to come up to my dog lab.†   (source)
  • No lab.†   (source)
  • How else could a science of psychology be built except by laboratory findings?†   (source)
  • Now I work on my dad's house on the weekends and at his dental laboratory during the week.†   (source)
  • Up in the lab?†   (source)
  • I was, by my very presence, a walking lab, a field trip.†   (source)
  • At least not where the labs are monitored and the pharmaceutical money boys are prohibited.†   (source)
  • The setting was the Philosophy Room of Harvard Hall, the old laboratory of Adams's favorite professor, Winthrop.†   (source)
  • Making people in a lab.†   (source)
  • She rocked her on and on, past Dachau, where soul-gutted Jewish mothers swept their children's entrails off laboratory floors.†   (source)
  • If you came by, you would see blonde-haired Otis, who looked to be a mixture of half Lab and half golden retriever, walking down our long dirt driveway at the farm and toward the house, keeping my mom company …. and safe.†   (source)
  • Would you prefer a nuclear holocaust, laboratory plague, or technological singularity to my ascendancy?†   (source)
  • If he had been a dog in a city, a policeman would have shot him and sent his head to a laboratory, to see if he had rabies.†   (source)
  • Like a mad scientist plotting revenge in an underground laboratory, for crying out loud.†   (source)
  • Come to my lab in an hour.†   (source)
  • The research laboratory?†   (source)
  • Welcome to the Stanford Lab.†   (source)
  • She put her arm around Clary's shoulders, turning them both so that they faced the doors that led to the waiting room for the lab where people got their blood taken.†   (source)
  • There was someone who worked in the lab down the hall ….†   (source)
  • The teacher ran up to me and with a long clamp angrily poured my creation down the drain and flunked me on that day's lab assignment.†   (source)
  • Some schools were spending more on metal detectors than on lab equipment.†   (source)
  • But she didn't want to meet him behind the science lab.†   (source)
  • The doctor went to a cabinet, poured some grappa from a five-liter can into a laboratory flask, and presented it to Alessandro.†   (source)
  • Or something more definite than that, strong waves of unfriendliness he can actually feel coming toward him, toward his seat at the back of the room in chemistry lab.†   (source)
  • In April, her children noticed that she'd started calling the dog "Clarence," although Clarence had died years ago and Brenda was a whole different color, golden retriever instead of black Lab.†   (source)
  • Instead of feeling panicked, I am fascinated, as if I'm a monkey in a lab.†   (source)
  • There was the time Shari had to kill and dissect Mr. Jingles, her university-assigned lab rat, in order to pass advanced behavioral neuroscience, and Chaz urged her to spare Mr. Jingles by surreptitiously replacing him with a look-alike rat he found at PetSmart in the mall.†   (source)
  • With his master gone, he, Akar Kessell, would be rightfully awarded his own meditation chamber and alchemy lab in the Hosttower of the Arcane in Luskan.†   (source)
  • I'm just not sure if I want to be a nurse or a doctor or do some kind of lab work.†   (source)
  • The lab reports came in.†   (source)
  • Or test that in a lab, or tell that to our students, which is the same thing.†   (source)
  • He got a call from the lab a few days later.†   (source)
  • I pray for the doctors in the laboratory.†   (source)
  • Minutes later myself and Finn Nielsen plus some eager guns headed by capsule for laboratory area.†   (source)
  • Like everyone else, she was wearing a blue lab coat and a hairnet.†   (source)
  • IN THE FAR CORNER OF the conservation lab, a black curtain stretched from the white ceiling to the white floor.†   (source)
  • He puts his duck calls around his neck and his black Lab, Trace, happily jumps into the truck.†   (source)
  • Three doctors and a few lab rats could control fifty mirrors.†   (source)
  • I discovered that when the laboratory alcohol with which I had been supplied, was mixed sparingly with Moose Brand Beer a variety of wolf-juice resulted which was positively ambrosial.†   (source)
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