CELLS in a Sentence

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208 example sentences for CELLS, such as:
1. They live with their cells open.
2. The brain cells are inactive during sleep.
3. The cells were in tiers, opening upon galleries.
4. The virus attacks a variety of cells in the body.
5. The cancer cells are burnt out using a laser beam.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of CELLS
cell
 n.  any small compartment
 n.  (biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals
Classic Sentence: (89 in 6 pages)
1  Hearing him foolishly fumbling there, the Captain laughs lowly to himself, and mutters something about the doors of convicts' cells being never allowed to be locked within.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
2  The lower subdivided part, called the junk, is one immense honeycomb of oil, formed by the crossing and recrossing, into ten thousand infiltrated cells, of tough elastic white fibres throughout its whole extent.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 77. The Great Heidelburgh Tun.
3  A vile wind that has no doubt blown ere this through prison corridors and cells, and wards of hospitals, and ventilated them, and now comes blowing hither as innocent as fleeces.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 135. The Chase.—Third Day.
4  At midnight they opened the station house to the homeless wanderers who were crowded about the door, shivering in the winter blast, and they thronged into the corridor outside of the cells.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
5  The cells were in tiers, opening upon galleries.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
6  They live with their cells open.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA
7  In their cells, they deliver themselves up to many unknown macerations, of which they must never speak.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—AUSTERITIES
8  In the main arm were the cells of the mothers, the sisters, and the novices.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VIII—POST CORDA LAPIDES
9  They dwelt, not in rooms warmed only during rigorous cold, but in cells where no fire was ever lighted; they slept, not on mattresses two inches thick, but on straw.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED
10  An iron neck-collar was hanging in one of these cells.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—BRUNESEAU.
11  Here and there among the cells containing dead brood and honey an angry buzzing can sometimes be heard.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XX
12  The keeper opens the two center partitions to examine the brood cells.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XX
13  The inspector visited, one after another, the cells and dungeons of several of the prisoners, whose good behavior or stupidity recommended them to the clemency of the government.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14. The Two Prisoners.
14  The man touched his hat; and glancing at Oliver with some curiousity, opened another gate, opposite to that by which they had entered, and led them on, through dark and winding ways, towards the cells.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
15  Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19
Example Sentence: (119 in 8 pages)
1  This new technique of artificially growing cells copies what actually happens in nature.
2  The cells were identified through microscopic analysis.
3  These are the cells that directly attack and kill micro-organisms.
4  Abnormalities in the cells can be seen quite clearly under a microscope.
5  The virus attacks a variety of cells in the body.
6  The brain cells are inactive during sleep.
7  The process by which malignant cancer cells multiply isn't fully understood.
8  The cancer cells are burnt out using a laser beam.
9  Differences in the glycosylation of cell surface components of colorectal cancer cells have been previously shown.
10  The committee is concerned about the large number of prisoners sharing cells.
11  Geneticists in Canada have discovered a clue to the puzzle of why our cells get old and die.
12  Those anticancer drugs are effective, but also destructive to white blood cells.
13  The possibility that intestinal epithelial cells may produce platelet activating factor has been suggested by Kald etal.
14  The reproduction and growth of the cancerous cells can be suppressed by bombarding them with radiation.
15  They walled off the large prison into lots of very small cells.