CELLS in a Sentence

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208 example sentences for CELLS, such as:

1. They live with their cells open.
2. Tests revealed some abnormal skin cells.
3. The virus attacks specific cells in the brain.
4. We lose skin cells every time we wash our hands.
5. The cells were in tiers, opening upon galleries.

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 Meanings and Examples of CELLS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
cell
 n.  the basic structural unit of all organisms
Classic Sentence: (89 in 6 pages)
1  Hearing him foolishly fumbling there, the Captain laughs lowly to himself, and mutters something about the doors of convicts' cells being never allowed to be locked within.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
2  The lower subdivided part, called the junk, is one immense honeycomb of oil, formed by the crossing and recrossing, into ten thousand infiltrated cells, of tough elastic white fibres throughout its whole extent.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 77. The Great Heidelburgh Tun.
3  A vile wind that has no doubt blown ere this through prison corridors and cells, and wards of hospitals, and ventilated them, and now comes blowing hither as innocent as fleeces.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 135. The Chase.—Third Day.
4  At midnight they opened the station house to the homeless wanderers who were crowded about the door, shivering in the winter blast, and they thronged into the corridor outside of the cells.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
5  The cells were in tiers, opening upon galleries.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
6  They live with their cells open.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA
7  In their cells, they deliver themselves up to many unknown macerations, of which they must never speak.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—AUSTERITIES
8  In the main arm were the cells of the mothers, the sisters, and the novices.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VIII—POST CORDA LAPIDES
9  They dwelt, not in rooms warmed only during rigorous cold, but in cells where no fire was ever lighted; they slept, not on mattresses two inches thick, but on straw.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED
10  An iron neck-collar was hanging in one of these cells.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—BRUNESEAU.
11  Here and there among the cells containing dead brood and honey an angry buzzing can sometimes be heard.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XX
12  The keeper opens the two center partitions to examine the brood cells.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XX
13  The inspector visited, one after another, the cells and dungeons of several of the prisoners, whose good behavior or stupidity recommended them to the clemency of the government.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14. The Two Prisoners.
14  The man touched his hat; and glancing at Oliver with some curiousity, opened another gate, opposite to that by which they had entered, and led them on, through dark and winding ways, towards the cells.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
15  Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19
Example Sentence: (119 in 8 pages)
16  We lose skin cells every time we wash our hands.
17  In a short time the number of cells is more than a trillion.
18  Once in the bloodstream, the bacteria adhere to the surface of the red cells.
19  A report condemned the state of prisoners' cells.
20  Tests revealed some abnormal skin cells.
21  Their solution was to isolate specific clones of B cells and fuse them with cancer cells.
22  The virus attacks specific cells in the brain.
23  Each of these cells have their specific jobs to do, but they also interrelate with each other.
24  The cells will promptly start to soak up moisture.
25  Researchers are gradually deciphering the genetic structure found in the cells of organisms.
26  Microscopy is an invaluable technique for studying the structure of cells.
27  Muscle cells need lots of fuel and therefore burn lots of calories.
28  Three types of protein that enable the cells to bore in and out of blood vessels.
29  Scientists process skin tissue to mimic embryonic stem cells.
30  Our ultimate goal is to be able to form a pool of stem-cell-like cells that would be able to repopulate the organ or tissue you're trying to repair.