phial

Example Sentences

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Take human blood, put it in a glass phial and keep it covered in dung for forty days.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 7, 2019

Suddenly, a phial of manna fell to the pavement and broke.

From Salon • Dec. 25, 2018

The experience was certainly straightforward - a welcoming staffer put a soothing warm wrapper on my finger, a pin prick which I hardly felt, and then a small phial of blood filled in a second.

From BBC • Aug. 14, 2014

A small phial of this life from the fertile bosom of Mother Earth will furnish men with substance for days.

From Slate • Jun. 1, 2012

Sam had just wits enough left to thrust the phial back into his breast.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien