CELL in a Sentence

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208 example sentences for CELL, such as:

1. She was marched into a cell.
2. They were locked up in a stinking cell.
3. He was left to sober up in a police cell.
4. Call me on my cell if you're running late.
5. Murphy sat in a prison cell awaiting trial.

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 Meanings and Examples of CELL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
cell
 n.  the basic structural unit of all organisms
Classic Sentence: (89 in 6 pages)
1  The day passed thus; he scarcely tasted food, but walked round and round the cell like a wild beast in its cage.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8. The Chateau D'If.
2  In the centre of the cell, in a circle traced with a fragment of plaster detached from the wall, sat a man whose tattered garments scarcely covered him.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14. The Two Prisoners.
3  He remained in his cell, and this visit only increased the belief in his insanity.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14. The Two Prisoners.
4  All his sorrows, all his sufferings, with their train of gloomy spectres, fled from his cell when the angel of death seemed about to enter.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27.
5  He moved away, walked up and down his cell to collect his thoughts, and then went back and listened.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27.
6  Dantes carefully collected the plaster, carried it into the corner of his cell, and covered it with earth.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27.
7  All day Dantes walked up and down his cell.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27.
8  It consisted of a plan of his own cell and that of Dantes, with the passage which united them.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17. The Abbe's Chamber.
9  Nothing interrupted the progress of the work except the necessity that each was under of returning to his cell in anticipation of the turnkey's visits.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17. The Abbe's Chamber.
10  The young man sprang to the entrance, darted through it, carefully drawing the stone over the opening, and hurried to his cell.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17. The Abbe's Chamber.
11  On this occasion he began his rounds at Dantes' cell, and on leaving him he went on to Faria's dungeon, taking thither breakfast and some linen.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19. The Third Attack.
12  The voices soon ceased, and it seemed to him as if every one had left the cell.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19. The Third Attack.
13  The cell was clean, though empty, and dry, though situated at an immeasurable distance under the earth.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 114. Peppino.
14  Without this, Danglars would have been quite ignorant of the time, for daylight did not reach his cell.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 115. Luigi Vampa's Bill of Fare.
15  "Here, your excellency," said Peppino, taking the fowl from the young bandit and placing it on the worm-eaten table, which with the stool and the goat-skin bed formed the entire furniture of the cell.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 115. Luigi Vampa's Bill of Fare.
Example Sentence: (119 in 8 pages)
16  The egg and sperm fuse together as one cell.
17  She was marched into a cell.
18  They have locked the prisoners up in their cell.
19  They were locked up in a stinking cell.
20  Murphy sat in a prison cell awaiting trial.
21  The cell contained an iron bedframe bolted to the floor.
22  He was left to sober up in a police cell.
23  He escaped by sawing through the bars of his cell.
24  Police have recaptured Alan Lord, who escaped from a police cell in Bolton.
25  A voltage is then applied across the cell electrodes.
26  My friends keep badgering me to get a cell phone.
27  I'll put him in a cell to cool his heels for a bit.
28  She was found prostrate on the floor of the cell.
29  Call me on my cell if you're running late.
30  The prisoner started to wash down the walls of his cell.