swabbed in a sentence

1. the tonsils and back of the mouth are swabbed once more.

2. As part of that exam, the participants swabbed their penises.

3. Study participants swabbed some dust from the top of a doorway inside their house or apartment.

4. A sample swabbed from the throat is put in a special cup (culture) that allows infections to grow.

5. Police simply swabbed the chair in which Raynor had been sitting and took what he refused to voluntarily provide.

6. Technicians had swabbed window panes, doorknobs, even toilet handles — anything that the attacker might have touched.

7. When this discharge is swabbed and tested in the lab, chlamydia and gonorrhea are the most common culprits identified.

8. Why do only half of study subjects catch colds when their nostril linings are swabbed with virulent rhinovirus cultures?

9. The retired high school math and journalism teacher got her cheek swabbed by one of the many health vendors at the event.

10. So far, the US has punished such initiatives by war (Iraq swabbed its oil trade to Euros – Libya to African gold dinars).

11. The inner surface of the involved lens should be swabbed, and the lens should be sectioned to obtain appropriate stains and cultures (288).

12. For this small study, researchers swabbed the eyes of 20 subjects—9 contacts-wearers and 11 non-users—to examine the types of bacteria there.

13. While you may think you've been swabbed for everything under the sun, "everything" means different things to different docs, Dr. Castaño notes.

14. The babies went home, and the researchers swabbed again a month later, and found that 96 percent of the babies now had fungi, most commonly C. albicans.

15. When I tested the Orig3n Nutrition and Fitness tests, I swabbed my cheek with a q-tip, sent it to the lab, and learned some interesting facts about my genes.

16. For the study - conducted as part of the UK BBC show "Trust Me, I'm a Doctor" - Dr. Roberts and colleagues swabbed the beards of 20 men on the streets of London.

17. The plastic-sealed Q-tip, which I swabbed across a square of toilet paper earlier today, is now en route to the University of Colorado, where a team of scientists will analyze it.

18. Participants' armpits were swabbed daily as they followed their normal hygiene routine for one day, then didn't use any product for five days, then used antiperspirant for two days.

19. They swabbed 41 chimp beds in western Tanzania's Issa Valley to collect samples of their microbial diversity, and they hoovered up arthropods — insects and arachnids — from 15 nests.

20. In the study, the team had previously swabbed the bats of the mining tunnel and found that P. flourescens was already present on some; that way, they weren't introducing a totally new bug.