Swab in a sentence as a noun

Then there's the swab kit sign up form. Oh my, what a pain.

Can't the TSA just do what the Canadians do and swab electronics and use the ion scanner?

I got the swab kit a few days later, swabbing took less than a minute, and it was ready to mail. Six minutes of work to potentially save someone's life, just do it.

I brought them home, and if they were indeed not working, I would get a Q-tip, apply some rubbing alcohol, and swab/scrub the contacts. This nearly worked every time.

Lots of us have gotten friends and friends of friends to swab and shouted from the rooftops to try and get people to contribute to the pool. Many are also creating drives for people to register.

> When she came out the other end, technicians tied a swab dipped in a chemical cleanser to the string. They pulled the tight-fitting swab through and when it came out it was covered with dust and steelspecks.

When she came out the other end, technicians tied a swab dipped in a chemical cleanser to the string. They pulled the tight-fitting swab through and when it came out it was covered with dust and steelspecks.

I just filled out the forms and requested the cheek swab kit. It takes about 15 minutes to fill out the forms, and then in two weeks they'll send you a cheek swab kit with instructions and a return envelope.

The TSA agents took my backpack and made a cursory hand-search, doing explosive swab tests on my electronics. After failing to find a source, they took me to the booth to do a more through check.

Swab in a sentence as a verb

She was no longer allowed seat assignments, had to check in in person, and was always subjected to full swab testing and a pat down. She eventually made it off the list, but there was no telling what got her on it.

So now we've got more than just our poor arrestee's id we've got some 'known acquaintences' and it gets worse if people start getting arrested for misdemeanors just so that the cops can take a swab to check. No doubt there will be more to this debate before the dust settles.

If sanitizing your underarms was sufficient to get rid of odor and sweat indefinitely, then a big iodine swab would do the job faster and even cheaper.

If I leave my leg on and walk through the metal detector, I must wait around until a male agent is available to swab me, check for explosive residue, and determine that I am not carrying a weapon. It's much more efficient to take the leg off and waddle on my knees through the metal detector.

I worked out a system whereby I'd read a disk, then when the drive head got magnetic filth on it, I'd swab the disk head with isopropyl alcohol. Anyway, I recovered about 1/2 of the disks with no errors, recovering 4 short stories - thought lost forever - and 52 Boulderdash 4 caves I did with a friend.

Im going to send a cheek swab to a PO box, and six weeks later a slab of my own pseudo-shoulder will show up packed in dry ice. My first experiment will be: 1 kg own cultured flesh 3 cups orange juice lime, kiwifruit, or pineapple juice to taste 1 clove of garlic, mashed pepper and salt to taste Combine and put in a saucepan on low heat without a lid.

Phosphoric acid is the same thing your dentist will swab on your tooth during a basic reconstructive filling procedure, because it softens the enamel a wee bit, ensuring a better bond to the filling.

As Scalia said in dissent in the recent DNA swab ruling, "Solving unsolved crimes is a noble objective but it occupies a lower place in the American pantheon of noble objectives than the protection of our people from suspicionless law-enforcement searches."

They had pretty compelling circumstantial evidence, so what they did was follow him around for 2 or 3 weeks to all of the public places he went, looking to get a left-behind hair, a swab of spit, a used soda can, food, any sample of his DNA they could use to test it against the ****** scene evidence. This guy knows this is going on, and is playing cat and mouse with them, covering all of this DNA tracks - being careful to not leave anything for them. He eventually absent-mindedly spits on the sidewalk and they dab it up with cotton swabs, run the tests, and get the match, and arrest him.

Quote Examples using Swab

TSA had a new procedure which required travelers to touch a screen and give up their fingerprints then get their hands swabbed in order to collect DNA. later in the procedure travelers are asked to show their ids, which are then placed under 'infrared' scanners. given all the recent discussion about the pseudo anonymity of our interactions with various software services i found this to be more almost as intrusive as body scans. essentially, the tsa could be doing the following: 1. touch screen so we have a fingerprint\n2. touch again if it didn't work the first time so we potentially have 2 fingerprints \n3. swab finger for DNA sample that we'll link to step 1 and/or 2\n4.

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Swab definitions

noun

implement consisting of a small piece of cotton that is used to apply medication or cleanse a wound or obtain a specimen of a secretion

noun

cleaning implement consisting of absorbent material fastened to a handle; for cleaning floors

See also: swob

verb

wash with a swab or a mop; "swab the ship's decks"

See also: swob

verb

apply (usually a liquid) to a surface; "dab the wall with paint"

See also: swob