Explore Swabs through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Swabs meaning
plural of swab
Using Swabs
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of swab
- In the example corpus, swabs often appears in combinations such as: swabs and, nasal swabs, cotton swabs.
Context around Swabs
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 15 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Swabs
- In this selection, "swabs" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, cotton, nasal, disinfecting, need, taken and may stand out and add context to how "swabs" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include additional dna swabs before they and and cotton swabs. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "swabs" sits close to words such as accumulates, admiralty and adventurers, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with swabs
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Specifically, get some isopropyl alcohol and a bundle of cotton swabs. (11 words)
Australia has now taken swabs from more than 300,000 people. (11 words)
After the novel coronavirus outbreak, throat swabs of 23 people tested negative. (12 words)
When Ms Guy arrived she was shown into the salon where she said there “was blood splatter up the walls” and “gauze swabs lying around that had still got blood on from the previous person”. (35 words)
At the news conference where he announced the purchase, he said he hoped to double that threshold, even as he acknowledged that the state would need more swabs, reagents and lab capacity to meet it. (35 words)
Her adviser, chief operating officer and testing lab each told the Post-Gazette that the carefully packed sets of swabs she now markets as “early evidence kits” cannot be used as evidence at trial. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
Public health officials are searching for an inexpensive test that doesn't require invasive, uncomfortable nasal swabs or the long processing time those swabs need in a lab.
Latex gloves, cotton swabs and disinfecting swabs were also donated to the retirement home.
At Western University, Lauren Sano leads a stem cell club, collecting mouth swabs from possible donors of different ethnic backgrounds.
Chinese scientists ignored requests for years to release information about swabs taken from surfaces at the Wuhan market.
I'm also currently using up some compostable cotton swabs since my cat knocked my reusable (opens in a new tab) off of the counter and into the fourth dimension.
In preparation for the Coronation Ms Blessley has spent the past four months meticulously preserving the flaking gilding and cleaning the chair's surface using sponges and cotton swabs.
Police said Smerk even willingly gave police additional DNA swabs before they handed him their business cards and went back to their hotel.
Cleaning your ears can seem like a straightforward task, but using cotton swabs may do more harm than good.
DNA pulled from the gum matched the profile from the autopsy swabs and Plympton was arrested on June 8, 2021.
Her adviser, chief operating officer and testing lab each told the Post-Gazette that the carefully packed sets of swabs she now markets as “early evidence kits” cannot be used as evidence at trial.
Specifically, get some isopropyl alcohol and a bundle of cotton swabs.
When Ms Guy arrived she was shown into the salon where she said there “was blood splatter up the walls” and “gauze swabs lying around that had still got blood on from the previous person”.
Acceptable specimen types include nasopharyngeal (NP) and oropharyngeal (OP) swabs sent in universal transport medium.
After the novel coronavirus outbreak, throat swabs of 23 people tested negative.
Alberta Health Services said it conducted an investigation and determined the work was safe and the regular surgical masks provided to the nurses for the swabs was appropriate.
Arranging for the test to be taken Receiving the test swabs, checking them and delivering them to the testing labs.
As a result, masks went scarce, and even testing swabs became hard to find during the pandemic’s initial few months.
A total of 6970 people attended the clinics, with swabs collected from 398 people who were identified with ILI symptoms, while others were provided with medication for minor ailments.
At the news conference where he announced the purchase, he said he hoped to double that threshold, even as he acknowledged that the state would need more swabs, reagents and lab capacity to meet it.
Australia has now taken swabs from more than 300,000 people.
Common combinations with swabs
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: