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Example sentences for "swabbed"

Lexicographically close words:
suzerain; suzerains; suzerainty; svastika; swab; swabbing; swabs; swad; swaddled; swaddling
  1. He swabbed more sweat from his face and glanced one last time at the glistening face of the lute, wondering what he would be doing now, at this moment, if he still were in London, penniless but on his own.

  2. Father Pinheiro had swabbed his greasy brow with the sleeve of his cassock.

  3. Father Pinheiro again swabbed the moisture from his brow.

  4. The raw surface should be swabbed over carefully, and any bleeding points secured by ligatures.

  5. First, all bleeding is stopped, and the wound is swabbed clean and dry.

  6. In the event of the case being extremely urgent, the conjunctiva should be swabbed over with nitrate of silver (10 gr.

  7. The machines should be inspected every day, and once a week rolls may be swabbed down with a 10 per cent.

  8. It is recommended, therefore, that wooden tanks, after ordinary cleansing daily, should be swabbed out with a 5 per cent.

  9. He swabbed it clean, blanching when he saw its depth.

  10. He bared Cassidy's arm, and swabbed it clean.

  11. He cursed again, and swabbed a spot on the native's arm, and thrust home the needle.

  12. He swabbed the boy's good arm, and pressed the needle home.

  13. Not knowing what else to do, Harvey swabbed each dory as it came down, pulled out the foot-boards, and laid them in the bottom of the boat.

  14. He turned to the Leader, swabbed his arm, then picked up the syringe.

  15. David swabbed the spot on the upper deltoid.

  16. I think plates swabbed with wet cotton before development, intensified if of short exposure, and thoroughly swabbed again before drying, had much to do with it; and paper handled in the same painstaking manner had more.

  17. While he swabbed my arm with alcohol, I looked down again at the bowl of broth he'd brought.

  18. Earlier he'd taken blood from my right arm, but then he'd just swabbed it, so why this bandage?

  19. The skipper stepped back, and swabbed his cheek with his sleeve.

  20. I made my way into the foc'sle, and my watchmates grabbed me, and swabbed and kneaded my hurts, and swore their sympathy.

  21. The bottle from which the water is given should be scalded out each time, the nipple boiled, and just before the "water nursing" the nipple should be swabbed with boracic acid solution.

  22. The foreskin of the boy baby is gently pushed back and cleansed thoroughly; while the vulva of the little girl baby, having first been swabbed with boracic acid, is now gently lathered and cleansed.

  23. Perhaps one of the most widely used is the early varnishing of the affected skin with ichthyol (one part ichthyol, one part distilled water), which is swabbed on after the skin has been cleansed with olive oil.

  24. Before and after each nursing the nipple and surrounding area is swabbed with boracic acid (saturated solution) and carefully dried by applying a clean, dry, sterile pad.

  25. Before I could get my foot back on the floor he skilfully swabbed the spot where it had been resting, a feat of celerity that I have never seen surpassed.

  26. It is only necessary to state that she removed the mop from the hands of the quaking menial and fairly swabbed him out into the thick of the rainstorm.

  27. I've swabbed away every trace of the former tenants and everything is fresh and new.

  28. Often, just smearing the mucus swabbed out of the throat over the surface of a glass slide, staining this smear, and putting it under a microscope, will enable us to decide within an hour.

  29. The old man swabbed the sweat from his brow.

  30. The old man, emerging from the timbers, took off his hat and swabbed the sweat from his brow.

  31. He swabbed his brow against the heat of early evening and rose to open the jalousies.

  32. He swabbed his brow, clammy in the sweltering heat, and wondered if all the islands of the Caribbees were like this.

  33. And while you're at it, tell Canninge to give them another round the second he's swabbed out.

  34. She raised up and swabbed her face with the rough cotton sheet.

  35. I worked ten hours a day, I've starved almost, I've swabbed floors.

  36. After the roof concrete was crowned, brought to a smooth surface and thoroughly dried, it was swabbed over with hot melted "medium hard" coal tar pitch to an even thickness of not less than 1-16 in.

  37. He then jammed the section into place, and swabbed out the inside of the joint with a stiff brush, to insure a smooth passage for the water.

  38. The interior of the vein should be swabbed out with a probe wrapped around with cotton wool and dipped in boracic salicylic acid.

  39. Nearer by a few inches, sir," Runkle called over his shoulder while the men with him swabbed and loaded.

  40. A sailor had thrown the breech open, while a second swabbed the bore through and the first fitted in a fresh shell, closing the breech with a snap.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "swabbed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.