PHIAL in a Sentence
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Example sentences for PHIAL, such as:
1. He left the room, and returned in five minutes with a phial.
2. He had bounded across the room and had wrenched a small phial from her hand.
3. The abbe made him smell the contents of the phial, and he again opened his eyes.
2. He had bounded across the room and had wrenched a small phial from her hand.
3. The abbe made him smell the contents of the phial, and he again opened his eyes.
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Meanings and Examples of PHIAL
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phial
n. a small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle)
Classic Sentence:
1 He left the room, and returned in five minutes with a phial.
2 The abbe made him smell the contents of the phial, and he again opened his eyes.
3 She saw a woman in a white dressing-gown pouring a liquor from a phial into her glass.
4 The latter recollected the terrible caution of Monte Cristo; she fancied that the hand not holding the phial clasped a long sharp knife.
5 I sought the key of the side-door in the kitchen; I sought, too, a phial of oil and a feather; I oiled the key and the lock.
6 But in the sleep which the phial procured she sank far below such half-waking visitations, sank into depths of dreamless annihilation from which she woke each morning with an obliterated past.
7 He had bounded across the room and had wrenched a small phial from her hand.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
Context Highlight In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
8 He has been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers.
Example Sentence:
1 You must open the middle drawer of my toilet-table and take out a little phial and a little glass you will find there, -- quick!