How to Use cell in a Sentence

cell

noun
  • The suspect was in the police station's holding cell overnight.
  • In 1915, a mob dragged him from his prison cell and lynched him.
    — Erin Kutch, NBC News, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The first, cellulose, comes from the cell walls of plants.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 25 May 2022
  • Carlile then picks up her cell and the pair get down to business.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 14 Nov. 2022
  • And some in the crowd pulled out their cell phones to record what happened next.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2022
  • Mitchell was in a concrete cell, with only a drain in the floor, the suit says.
    — Doha Madani, NBC News, 16 Feb. 2023
  • At the jail, Wiley gave the key to Choate’s cell to his (Wiley’s) wife.
    — Timothy Bella, Anchorage Daily News, 19 July 2023
  • At the end of the episode, it was revealed that the man hanged himself in his San Quentin cell.
    — John J. Lennon, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2025
  • The video shows the officers wrestling with Otieno through a slot in his cell door.
    — Salvador Rizzo, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2023
  • In his cell on death row, her boyfriend kept a cellphone.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Tiny, coffin-like cells that four men were made to share.
    — James Longman, ABC News, 14 Dec. 2024
  • The migrants were given cell phones and $50 Visa cards.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Later that morning, the lawsuit states, Gantt her the lock open on her cell, and the door opened.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 12 June 2023
  • As the disease progressed, the rod cells around the edges of my retina would die, followed by the cones.
    — Andrew Leland, The New Yorker, 8 July 2023
  • My prediction: at the end of this, one of them’s in a cell with Diddy.
    — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 6 June 2025
  • That followed the death of a 27-year-old man who was found hanging in his cell last week.
    — Shaila Dewan, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2022
  • There are times, usually in the evening, when cell service can be hit-or-miss due to the size of the crowd.
    — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 23 Sep. 2024
  • There are audible screams on the grainy cell-phone video.
    — Amanda Milkovits, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2022
  • Every cell in the brain has the gene for making the prion protein.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 27 June 2024
  • Once the virus has grown in the cell, scientists extract it for the vaccine.
    — Jenna Anderson, Health, 2 May 2025
  • Most hard-side coolers are made with closed-cell polyurethane foam.
    — Tanya Edwards, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 May 2022
  • Some passersby recorded the scene on their cell phones.
    — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 17 Sep. 2022
  • To ensure her safety, she was housed in a single cell, the jail said.
    — Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2024
  • It’s made of protein-rich cells plus fats, or lipids, that fill gaps between the cells.
    — Matt Fuchs, TIME, 6 Feb. 2025
  • This leads to a cycle of increasing wear and tear as cells age.
    — Ellen Quarles, Fortune Well, 7 July 2023
  • Down the hall is a row of metal black doors that open to windowless cells.
    — Claire Harbage, NPR, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Noem posed in front of one of those cells for her video, with men crowded on open bunks stacked three high.
    — Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 28 Mar. 2025
  • The new cell type could help fight diseases, even cancer.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Their cells grew to tolerate it, and then to depend on it.
    — Laura Poppick, Rolling Stone, 30 June 2025
  • The compound explored in the study had little to no effect on breast, liver or lung cancer cells, the researchers noted.
    — Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 29 June 2025

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