Explore Petri through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Petri in a sentence
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Petri meaning
A surname from German
Using Petri
- The main meaning on this page is: A surname from German
- In the example corpus, petri often appears in combinations such as: petri dish, petri dishes, in petri.
Context around Petri
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 11 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Petri
- In this selection, "petri" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, lina, floating, dish, dishes and plumbing stand out and add context to how "petri" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include petri plumbing heating and as the petri dish where. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "petri" sits close to words such as abner, acquit and adamantly, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with petri
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Mr Petri has not publicly commented on the allegations. (9 words)
On the other hand, Davos is a Petri dish for innovations in greenwashing. (13 words)
Cruise ships, or any ship with many passengers, have long been floating Petri dishes. (14 words)
After all, greenhouses take up more space than laboratories, molecules are easier to patent than plants and once you figure out how to do it all in a petri dish, you don’t have to worry about weather or insects. (40 words)
Petri Plumbing & Heating, Inc., a family-owned home service company serving for more than 100 years, is offering tips for carbon monoxide safety during the winter months, when old or poorly maintained home heating systems can present severe health risks. (40 words)
Of course, Google’s rivals are also pushing aggressively into the managed Kubernetes world, but as the petri dish where Kubernetes was grown, Google has a strong claim to being the best way to run that technology. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
On the other hand, Davos is a Petri dish for innovations in greenwashing.
This idea has enough merit for Jamaica to subject it to the petri dish and to weigh the results,” she said.
Clinicians culture the bacteria on glass plates or petri dishes, but these do not properly mimic the 3D microenvironment inside lungs.
In their newest research, last month in the Journal of Translational Medicine, the Duke-NUS team found evidence that their vaccine strain of Zika can indeed become such a weapon, at least inside a petri dish.
Lina Petri (John Paul I's niece), Flavia Tudini (Vatican archivist), Stefania Falasca (Postulator), at John Paul I Vatican Foundation with boxes of documents.
The final contract will be signed next month in Copenhagen when Petri travels to the European country.
The giant golf-ball domes at Ai-Petri are used for long-range reconnaissance and air defence guidance, crucial to the Russian military.
They discussed the process of growing brain cells in a petri dish, integrating them into cutting-edge and usable technologies, and the profound ethical and practical implications of this fusion.
After all, greenhouses take up more space than laboratories, molecules are easier to patent than plants and once you figure out how to do it all in a petri dish, you don’t have to worry about weather or insects.
Cruise ships, or any ship with many passengers, have long been floating Petri dishes.
Even the sky, the way it tilted, like a petri dish of glittery dark.
Holbrooke seems to have been created out of some petri dish to be a diplomat, the only person ever to have been assistant secretary of state for two different hemispheres, Asia from 1977and Europe from 1994.
However we also have to assume that the patient was on an airplane with at least 100 other people, and airplanes are like a petri dish.
Mr Bagdonavicius said he cut a portion of the hospital pants out, likely placed them in a petri dish or tube, and sent them to the DNA lab for future testing.
Mr Petri has not publicly commented on the allegations.
Of course, Google’s rivals are also pushing aggressively into the managed Kubernetes world, but as the petri dish where Kubernetes was grown, Google has a strong claim to being the best way to run that technology.
Petri differentiated between “willful distraction,” which would be letting one’s mind wander, and distractions that come from other sources, such as children.
Petri Plumbing & Heating, Inc., a family-owned home service company serving for more than 100 years, is offering tips for carbon monoxide safety during the winter months, when old or poorly maintained home heating systems can present severe health risks.
Petri Plumbing & Heating recommends small energy-saving measures like weatherstripping and reversing the circulation of a ceiling fan to maximize comfort and economy during winter.
Petri sage is performed by the rollers pushing toward one another in a squeezing or manipulating development.
Common combinations with petri
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- petri dish 24×
- petri dishes 9×
- in petri 9×
- like petri 4×
- the petri 2×
- petri plumbing 2×
- petri told 2×
- and petri 2×
- glass petri 2×
- of petri 2×