Sentence examples for to swab from inspiring English sources
noun
A small piece of soft, absorbent material, such as gauze, used to clean wounds, apply medicine, or take samples of body fluids. Often attached to a stick or wire to aid access.
Another possible limitation is nasal self-swabbing; since subjects have to swab their own nostrils, this may affect the quality of sampling.
Dexter and Elliot had better learn to swab the decks.
It sends people a DNA collection kit to swab the inside of their cheek.
Looking for an opportunity to swab the decks, do KP duty and get some rest?
"We have further plans to swab sites that have been destroyed by war.
To swab: Your cheek, if you're an incoming freshman at U.C.-Berkeley.
Despite the stern tone, no one had to swab the decks.
As they began to swab it for chemical residue, a series of raised dots emerged.
There was one point where to swab it they had to cut it with a knife.
They remove the cotton balls from thousands of pill bottles to swab patients' arms before injections.
Staff members use a soft bristle to swab the gums of infants.
