phial

[US]/'faɪəl/
[UK]/'faɪəl/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. a small vessel, especially a small glass bottle or vial, used to hold liquids

Phrases & Collocations

a crystal phial

vial and phial

Example Sentences

a phial of blood.

Dying at my music! Bubble! Bubble! Hold me till the Octave"s run! Quick! Burst the Windows! Ritardando! Phials left, and the Sun!

She carefully poured the potion into the phial.

The phial contained a mysterious liquid.

He uncorked the phial and took a sniff.

The phial shattered into pieces when it fell.

The phial was labeled 'poison - do not touch.'

She carefully sealed the phial with a cork.

The phial glowed softly in the dim light.

He carried the phial in his pocket for safekeeping.

The phial was made of delicate glass.

She carefully labeled each phial with a different color.

Real-world Examples

On the table an empty opium phial.

Source: Kreutzer Sonata

" That will do;—now wet the lip of the phial" .

Source: Jane Eyre (Original Version)

Until the pharmacist took away the phial could he relax himself with a " phew" .

Source: Pan Pan

She opened the door of her locker and pointed to the row of boxes and labelled phials on the upper shelf.

Source: Brave New World

He sat musing for a little with the phial in his hand, looking at the clear liquid within.

Source: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: New Cases (Volume 1)

He looked round the room and saw a bottle with some brandy in it, and the almost empty opium phial.

Source: Middlemarch (Part Five)

It contains a greenish liquor: Fill a small phial with it when you are unobserved, and Antonia is your own'.

Source: Monk (Part 2)

He put the phial out of sight, and carried the brandy-bottle down-stairs with him, locking it again in the wine-cooler.

Source: Middlemarch (Part Five)

There was not much, but there was enough—an empty phial, another nearly full, a hypodermic syringe, several letters in a crabbed, foreign hand.

Source: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: New Cases (Volume 1)

And there I stood, shining my light and holding my phial with a keener interest than I had ever brought to any honest avocation.

Source: Amateur Thief Rafiz

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