Example sentences for: spiked

How can you use “spiked” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Following Noble's instructions, I put a little cheap white wine into 15 glasses and then spiked each one with a different physical standard: peach puree, apricot puree, brine of asparagus, strawberry jam, wet cardboard, fresh strawberry, pineapple juice, soy sauce, green olive, melted butter, coffee grinds, fresh lime juice, cloves, vanilla, and shaved almonds.

  • Each of the 10 plasmids was used to synthesize cRNA in vitro . cRNAs were quantitated and differentially spiked into heart and brain RNA samples at specific copy numbers based on the following assumptions: 360,000 mRNA transcripts per cell, 20 pg total RNA per cell and 1 pg mRNA transcript per cell; hence, 100 'spike' copies/cell would be equivalent to about 0.14 ng 'spike' transcript in 10 μg total RNA [ 12].

  • Specifically, because of the combination of small fluid-handling uncertainties and potentially larger variation in the purity of cRNA preparations, the actual ratio of the spiked transcripts to cDNA-template-derived cRNAs might be significantly skewed from one array to another.

  • And anyway, these millennial demons are a particularly clumsy lot, far less canny and elegant than, say, Rosemary's Baby 's John Cassavetes, whose earthly weapon of choice was spiked chocolate mousse.

  • Although the price of oil has spiked lately, last time Chatterbox checked it was $25 per barrel, which (factoring out inflation and taxes) was less than it was in 1973 (when oil prices were lower than they were in Global 2000 's benchmark year of 1975).


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