swabber

Example Sentences

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As the days passed, the first colleague through the line each morning would text a scouting report to the rest of us about the aggressiveness of the swabber.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2022

The swabber working in the mobile Covid testing van parked at Conference House Park, Jesse Henry, said he was not vaccinated.

From New York Times • Jul. 23, 2021

Maybe five seconds per nostril with a six-inch swabber that reaches the sinus cavity where COVID-19 likes to live.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 7, 2020

Under the swabber there was a temporary rate known as the liar.

From On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. by Masefield, John

No man shall play at cards or dice either for his apparel or arms upon pain of being disarmed and made a swabber of the ship.

From Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 Publications Of The Navy Records Society Vol. XXIX. by Corbett, Julian S. (Julian Stafford)