How to Use vial in a Sentence

vial

noun
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  • Just open the tube, swab your nose, and place the tube in the testing vial.
    — Toni Sutton, Peoplemag, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Dietschler takes a vial out of the cooler and pops the lid.
    — Zoya Teirstein, Wired, 14 Aug. 2021
  • Stir the swab in the vial and then apply three drops of the liquid to the test kit.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 25 Jan. 2022
  • The hours and vials, so many things sealed, opened and tested.
    — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • But much of it could be wiped out by a few vials of sperm.
    — Sophie Strosberg, Parents, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Plus, the 15-ml vial is the perfect size to toss in your carry-on.
    — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 July 2022
  • Test users swirl the sample swab in a vial, which then goes in a test unit.
    — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Once the vial is open, it can’t be stored for later use.
    — Dan Horn, The Enquirer, 7 June 2021
  • When Sanofi cuts the price as of Jan. 1, Lantus will cost about $64 per vial.
    — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Once a vial is opened, all the doses must be used up in a few hours.
    — Ratheesh Raveendran, Forbes, 6 Apr. 2021
  • And for just $75 USD, this mystery vial can be all yours.
    — Lydia Wang, refinery29.com, 7 July 2021
  • For the first day, the staff scheduled just enough patients to use up one vial.
    — Catherine Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 June 2021
  • Donor sperm is around £1000 per vial, which is equal to one round of treatment.
    — Jamie Wareham, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2022
  • One by one, we were led into a small room and asked to spit into a vial.
    — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 July 2021
  • Each vial will be infused with paint and used on the $500 boards, which are already sold out.
    — Emily Leiker, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2021
  • Among things that were out of place: vials of drugs in Harris’s purse that were not near her body.
    — Dan Morse, Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2024
  • One of them found a vial with seven blue pills in a box on Alex’s nightstand.
    — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2024
  • The same vial is used for booster doses for adults 18 years of age and older.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN, 23 June 2022
  • The Pitt team even shipped vials of the phage to the hotel where Cole’s family was staying.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Skilled nurses can get up to 11 to 13 doses from each vial.
    — Manavi Kapur, Quartz, 6 May 2021
  • The predators, each no bigger than a pinhead, come to their senses and zigzag out of the vial.
    — Zoya Teirstein, Wired, 14 Aug. 2021
  • There was no blood vial or can of beans at that time, according to Shein.
    — Jody Serrano / Gizmodo, Quartz, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Then, they were asked to rank each vial from most pleasant to least pleasant.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Apr. 2022
  • As rain falls into the vial, the red ball inside will rise, causing the steel arm to move higher up the scale.
    — Renee Freemon Mulvihill, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Most vaccines can stay on the shelf unopened for months, but once a vial is opened, the clock starts ticking.
    — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 27 Sep. 2021
  • While most vaccines can stay on the shelf unopened for months, once a vial is opened the clock starts ticking.
    — Todd Richmond, chicagotribune.com, 26 Sep. 2021
  • The spoons brought me joy in a way that a vial filled with pink sand from some tropical beach never did.
    — New York Times, 2 Aug. 2022
  • If that doesn’t work, there’s always a free vial of dirt from the 2022 season to entice them back for more.
    — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Donations from researchers have made the number of slides and vials double every decade.
    — Hannah Richter, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 July 2024
  • The colors of the vials can also be customized to personalize your Flounder.
    — New Atlas, 6 Aug. 2024

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