Sample sentences for LABORATORY

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Definition

a workplace where people do scientific or medical research, or produce drugs or chemicals

or (as an adjective): related to such a place

laboratory = a workplace where people do scientific or medical research

laboratory = a workplace where people do scientific research (figurative use)

lab = a workplace where people do scientific or medical research

laboratory = related to a workplace where people do scientific or medical research

lab = related to a workplace where people do scientific or medical research

laboratory = a workplace where people do scientific or medical research

It was enough for Stanley to buy his family a new house, with a laboratory in the basement, and for Hector to hire a team of private investigators.
Louis Sachar -- Holes

laboratory = workplace for scientific research

I had been in the lab many times before this, but now I was here to learn everything it had to offer.
Daniel Keyes -- Flowers for Algernon — Novel

lab = workplace for scientific or medical research

Fortunately, no one else was around when the lab blew up.
Ellen Raskin -- The Westing Game

lab = workplace for scientific or medical 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.
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front

laboratory = a workplace where people do scientific work

lab = a workplace where people do technical research

She removed the sleeve and cauterized a patch of lab-grown skin over the open wound.
Frank Beddor -- The Looking Glass Wars

lab = related to a place that does medical work

He gave me a lab slip and a plastic jar, handed Soraya a request for some routine blood tests.
Khaled Hosseini -- The Kite Runner

lab = related to a workplace for medical testing

lab = workplace for scientific or medical research/study

Above were the search laboratories and the padded rooms in which Sound-Track Writers and Synthetic Composers did the delicate work.
Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World

laboratories = workplaces where people do scientific research

It contains a stove (thanks to the fact hat it used to be Mr. Kugler's laboratory) and a sink.
Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl

laboratory = a workplace where people do scientific or medical research

The body was taken to Anchorage, where an autopsy was performed at the Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

laboratory = workplace for scientific or medical research

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.
Madeleine L'Engle -- A Wrinkle in Time

lab = workplace for scientific or medical research

When we took the tour, you know what they had in their science lab?
R.J. Palacio -- Wonder

lab = a workplace where people do scientific research

We didn't have good science labs, computers or libraries.
Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala

labs = workplaces for scientific research or study

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