Also, a man formerly appointed to use the swabs in drying up the decks.
People appointed to wash the swabs and wring them out, ready for use.
A terrible end for the like of them swabs does live on land, maybe.
Or would you have her tied for life to the like of them skinny, shrivelled swabs does be working in cities?
In laryngeal tuberculosis they are not easily found in the sputum, but can nearly always be detected in swabs made directly from the larynx.
In the case of rectal ulcers, swabs can be made directly from the ulcerated surface.
Take your swabs and hurry aft to the quarter-deck.
By the time the boys reached the quarter-deck their mates were already at work, moving along swiftly, pushing their swabs ahead of them.
For the next hour there was a steady splash, splash as the swabs worked back and forth over the deck, the latter running rivers of water from hose and pail.
The mate conducted them to a chest in which the swabs were kept.
To avoid the risk of leaving swabs in the peritoneal cavity, large square pads of gauze, to one corner of which a piece of strong tape about a foot long is securely stitched, should be employed.
The assistant who attends to the swabs should wear sterilised gloves.
The swabs that ran foul of me bolted as soon as you crossed that other chap's hawse.
Those swabs handled me a bit rough, although they didn't leave many marks on me.
You're an officer in the United States Navy, and these Chilian swabs wouldn't dare lay a finger on you.
Why, by laying for that blooming lot of swabsand taking Matt away from them by main force!
The swabs with specimen from each person should be placed in a separate sterile container to prevent cross-contamination.
Swabs on the end of a glass rod dipped in adrenalin and cocaine may also be used during the operation.
Cotton swabs are convenient for cleansing the mouth; they are made by winding a small piece of absorbent cotton upon a match or wooden tooth-pick.
It is applied with cotton swabs and several swabs should be made and kept on hand in a box or envelope.
Dip only clean swabs in the solution, discard each one after using it once, and burn it afterward.
Black Jack to Peets, as heswabs off the bar in a peevish way.
She began to wonder whether the swabs and bandages were not a pretext for getting away from Colin.
There's a few of them that are smart seamen, but most of them are rank swabs that don't know a marlinspike from a backstay.
We haven't got to worry about them swabs till we've found the doubloons, anyway.
It is to them ignorant swabs for'ard," growled Tyke.
Then if them swabsclimb the hill to git the better of us, they can't shoot over.
If it comes to bullets," said Captain Hamilton, "those swabs will be so near to us we can scarcely miss 'em.
Let go at us; call us swabs and lubbers, anything you can lay your tongue to; the men 'll like it from you.
Filling the ship up with a pack of swabs who, because they are sons of captains, are indulged and nursed, and the whole place is turned into a hospital.
Well, it's bloo coat, and white weskutt and breeches, and gold lace and cocked hat, and two gold swabs on the shoulders.
Better than those ---- swabs we had to shove in the sail locker until we got to sea.
The swabs are also to be got up and thoroughly wetted.
The Loader and Sponger put in and secure the upper half-ports, if directed, and the Loader swabs the deck to collect any loose powder which may have been scattered on it.
Do you think that white car, and that man we saw in the road, had anything to do with the swabs who were in here?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "swabs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
