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    swab example sentences

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    1. He gently pulled up Aaron’s sleeve, wiped his arm with a cotton swab, and injected what Harry assumed was a mild sedative


    2. Most berries swell with antioxidants, which act almost as a swab for problematic chemicals in the brain – and the rest of the body, too!


    3. The veterinarian will also take a fecal sample (usually by passing a swab inside the vent as well as collecting fresh droppings) and check it for parasites


    4. To detect the disease, a veterinarian may take a cloacal swab; but if the virus is not actively shedding at the time the swab is taken, the results will be inconclusive


    5. “Just relax,” The doctor wiped her skin with an alcohol swab and stuck her with a needle


    6. A swab on the blood-trace as he withdrew the antidote needle


    7. to swab my ears with the Dermatone


    8. and Hayes cleaned up his wounds with a swab and applied a tourniquet to his


    9. “Hey if you are going to join us, you’re going to work! Now grab a mop and help the cabin boys swab the poop deck!” The same large man that had laughed at James earlier that day said, as he threw a mop at him


    10. So, ear stones? Did they ever cause me any problems? I’ve always understood it is dangerous to poke inside my ears with a cotton swab, so why on Earth would I even consider letting a stranger in there with some prehistoric dentist's equipment? Unfortunately these truths, self-evident in one's own country, do not guarantee rational thinking while travelling

    11. the kit pulling out a long, cotton tipped swab and stepped up onto the


    12. In a moment, he pulled the swab out and put the wood end in


    13. lion, had removed his sun hat to swab at its band when he


    14. Mudge is absolutely correct”—he paused to swab his face and spit sand out of his teeth—“about 27


    15. " Wolfi pointed at the long handled swab with one end in a pail of water


    16. and dabbed a cotton tipped swab into a bottle of


    17. Apply with a cotton swab after threading to greatly reduce eyebrow hair growth


    18. The wet swab meant to extinguish still simmering embers was shoved down the cannon barrels with a hot hiss of sound as water came into contact with hot metal


    19. " Andrew winced when the swab made contact with the heart of the bruise


    20. It is possible to find out about the presence of strep infection by doing a swab test or urine test depending on the strain of the infection

    21. If they are required to execute duties on-board make sure they know this (and how to do it) before you give the order to swab the outdoor deck or manage lines


    22. When he had scrubbed it sufficiently he rinsed it off as well as he could with the brush, and then, to finish with, he thrust his hand into the pail of water and, taking out the swab, wrung the water out of it and wiped the part of the ceiling that he had washed


    23. He had a bag of money in his pocket, like a pudding in the cloth, and on that property married a young person in bedfurniture, with great rejoicings; the whole population of Portsmouth (nine in number at the last census) turning out on the beach to rub their own hands and shake everybody else's, and sing "Fill, fill!" A certain dark-complexioned Swab, however, who wouldn't fill, or do anything else that was proposed to him, and whose heart was openly stated (by the boatswain) to be as black as his figurehead, proposed to two other Swabs to get all mankind into difficulties; which was so effectually done (the Swab family having considerable political influence) that it took half the evening to set things right, and then it was only brought about through an honest little grocer with a white hat, black gaiters, and red nose, getting into a clock, with a gridiron, and listening, and coming out, and knocking everybody down from behind with the gridiron whom he couldn't confute with what he had overheard


    24. —After you with the push, Joe, says he, taking out his handkerchief to swab


    25. Furthermore he had a row with Lenehan and called him to Stephen a mean bloody swab with a sprinkling of a number of other uncalledfor expressions


    26. ” I pulled a buccal swab kit from my pocket and said, “It’s a cheek swab


    27. With a cotton swab, she applied the base, a clear, sticky balm with a gluelike smell


    28. He then wiped away mucus with a swab of disinfected linen


    29. Swab your throat out with this


    30. "What makes you think I would bother with an old horse like Constance Rattigan?" he said, as he reached into the bathroom and dragged out a towel which he now used to swab his shoulders and chest

    31. "I'm Cap'n here, though, I'll have you to understand, you swab," shrieked Snipes, with a volley of frightful oaths


    1. I hoisted sails, trimmed sails, dropped sails, swabbed decks, greased pulleys, polished brass, secured cargo, and hauled supplies


    2. The doctor started to cut the infected flesh away and swabbed the puss out of the wound then he washed my shoulder out with surgical alcohol and I passed out with the pain for a moment


    3. Think I got it swabbed dry but some drops sneak in again fore I get it soldered


    4. The ability to feel relaxed and correctly dressed when naked among fully dressed people in drawing room, studio or theatre, is not a gift that everyone enjoys so, as intended, I was the one to be shaved smooth and swabbed with bronze body paint


    5. Secure in the knowledge that no one would dare enter her sanctum without first knocking, the headmistress and her ancient acolyte tutted concern and gently swabbed and applied ointment and plasters to gashes and grazes


    6. A sudden wave of nausea engulfed me as Brian swabbed and inspected


    7. She held out her hand and Zeno passed a cloth moistened in warm water and disinfectant with which she lightly swabbed the wound


    8. The gentleman then swabbed down the area once more with a very potent and odourless antiseptic


    9. She swabbed Sterling’s arm with alcohol and slipped the fine needle into a vein, leaving the needle in place so she could increase the dose if necessary


    10. He swabbed her forearm with an alcohol wipe and gently pushed the needle into her skin

    11. ” He swabbed another lotion on the bite marks


    12. Nurse watched as he swabbed his brow and neck with a napkin and stuffed it back in his pocket


    13. Wolfi wet swabbed the cannon barrel and then loaded a greater load of powder


    14. cut the cord and swabbed her baby


    15. She swabbed his whole shoulder area down being quite liberal with the rubbing alcohol


    16. She then swabbed his bruise with a little dressing and groaned


    17. The floor of the hospital was filthier than usual, and she had it swept and swabbed


    18. The doctors turned the captives’ hands palm-up and swabbed their arms with alcohol


    19. Just swabbing the barrel between shots was difficult and time-consuming, yet if it wasn’t swabbed properly, if there was a single spark or ember waiting when the next powder charge was rammed home


    20. He dropped the towel and swabbed it around with his foot and balled it up at the bottom of the linen closet

    21. I realized whose blood was swabbed all over his hands and arms


    22. “Adanne?” I sat her up and saw that her forehead was swabbed in red


    23. Finally Huck leaned on his shovel, swabbed the beaded drops from his brow with his sleeve, and said:


    24. She had laid linoleum, repaired bicycles, wound clocks, stoked furnaces, swabbed iodine on ten thousand grievous wounds


    25. Mamma swabbed me with a furry towel


    26. Mama swabbed me with a furry towel


    1. He probably finished his naval career swabbing decks


    2. When they were not aloft Ambrosius and Stan also helped out by performing various duties such as swabbing the deck, taking soundings, feeding the petrels and, at Fishmael's insistence, sharpening the harpoons every twelve hours


    3. As he took out his field bandage and a wrapped alcohol swabbing cloth from a pouch of his tactical vest, he looked at his two other men


    4. The Joseph swabbing the deck to look busy was the same Joseph they had placed on the pedestal


    5. Just swabbing the barrel between shots was difficult and time-consuming, yet if it wasn’t swabbed properly, if there was a single spark or ember waiting when the next powder charge was rammed home


    1. found plenty of cotton swabs and bandages but that was all


    2. swabs, the same swabs that moments before had been used to wipe up Chris’


    3. “When I left the office with the bloody swabs, I could not


    4. “Then, we scrub up and we clean around the site of the incision on Anita’s abdomen, using this iodine solution applied by swabs


    5. She checked the number of swabs and instruments before pronouncing it was time to close Anita up


    6. It is standard to send out cheek swabs for more expert analysis


    7. the pathologist felt the frustration, she knew there was some type of molestation, but vaginal, anal and oral swabs


    8. He had a bag of money in his pocket, like a pudding in the cloth, and on that property married a young person in bedfurniture, with great rejoicings; the whole population of Portsmouth (nine in number at the last census) turning out on the beach to rub their own hands and shake everybody else's, and sing "Fill, fill!" A certain dark-complexioned Swab, however, who wouldn't fill, or do anything else that was proposed to him, and whose heart was openly stated (by the boatswain) to be as black as his figurehead, proposed to two other Swabs to get all mankind into difficulties; which was so effectually done (the Swab family having considerable political influence) that it took half the evening to set things right, and then it was only brought about through an honest little grocer with a white hat, black gaiters, and red nose, getting into a clock, with a gridiron, and listening, and coming out, and knocking everybody down from behind with the gridiron whom he couldn't confute with what he had overheard


    9. Wopsle's (who had never been heard of before) coming in with a star and garter on, as a plenipotentiary of great power direct from the Admiralty, to say that the Swabs were all to go to prison on the spot, and that he had brought the boatswain down the Union Jack, as a slight acknowledgment of his public services


    10. The guns returned to battery, the breech blocks spun and opened, soaked swabs extinguished any embers, fresh shells and bagged powder charges slid into the breeches, the blocks closed, and each gun captain bent back to the sight mounted to the recoil cylinder

    11. Search him, send hand and nail swabs and all his clothes to the laboratory


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    Synonyms for "swab"

    mop swab swob dab evaporate soak up wither dry drain bake

    "swab" definitions

    implement consisting of a small piece of cotton that is used to apply medication or cleanse a wound or obtain a specimen of a secretion


    cleaning implement consisting of absorbent material fastened to a handle; for cleaning floors


    wash with a swab or a mop


    apply (usually a liquid) to a surface