In a sentence
Six example sentences with beaker, each labelled with its topic.
She poured the blue solution into a beaker, set it on the hotplate, and waited for the first bubbles.
Science
The pastry chef measures cream in a tall beaker marked in millilitres, because cups are useless for this custard.
Cooking
Each sample arrives in a sealed beaker, labelled with a barcode the analyser reads before the test begins.
Medicine
In the darkroom she mixed developer in a plastic beaker, checking the temperature before pouring it over the film.
Photography
The alchemy screen shows a bubbling beaker, and dragging three herbs into it produces a potion or a puff of smoke.
Gaming
Every mad scientist set needs a beaker of colored water fizzing on a burner, though nothing in it is real.
Movies
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