Sentence examples for swab from inspiring English sources

Then, in 2008, his wife was soothing his back with surgical spirit when the cotton swab she was using gathered a curious blue-black haze from his skin.

He kills you.'" At the moment, swab tests show that 30% of bodies picked up by burial teams after calls from families are positive for Ebola.

Customers supply genetic material in the form of a cheek swab, which is then compared against a database of hundreds of thousands of people's genomes, and a list of genetic variations that are linked to diseases.

Taking a swab from the nearest tree would do almost as well.

Maryland's Court of Appeals overturned his conviction, finding that the DNA swab was an unreasonable search.The Supreme Court heard the case last February and issued its ruling on June 3rd.

Testing a cheek swab from a baby can easily clear the matter up.

Staff at Manchester airport have started to swab hand luggage.American intelligence officials are said to believe that al-Qaeda's forces in Yemen are collaborating with jihadists in Syria, either under the direction of Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri or using techniques developed by him, with the aim of bringing down an airliner.

Though perhaps not the "slow-motion Chernobyl" which some environmental campaigners make out, the site is subject to one of the most complex nuclear clean-ups in the world.Sellafield is the trickiest of several challenges facing the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority NDAa), a government body that manages the contractors who swab out Britain's defunct facilities.

Now the process is to be applied to passengers' hands, which agents will swab on a random basis at points around airports.

The apparently firm proof of Coleman's guilt a scientist still had a swab from the victim was "a kick in the stomach", as one Coleman supporter put it.In this section Rebuilding the American dream machine The Big not-quite-so-Easy The court approves A matter of evidence Mike, you stay and turn the lights off This year's political punch-bag?

Mr Warren's invitation to the Democratic senator (who dutifully submitted to a mouth swab for HIV) brought a rebuke from conservative churchmen and commentators who object to his attitude to abortion.