Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: cells
IPA transcription: [s'ɛlz]
Usage examples
  • In it were rooms and cells which were used as tombs.
  • In a few days they will be full grown, and will creep out of their cells.
  • But the Bees took one of us Grubs and laid her in one of the Princesses' cells.
  • A secretion of the brain? The cumulative expression, wholly chemical, of the multitudes of cells that form us?
  • There was no room for separate cells, no room for privacy, no cause or desire for the most elementary sense of delicacy.
  • In the first place, the bees would not fail to try some new industrial process; for instance, that of making their cells round or square.
  • The ten, however, that lay in the large cells got as much to eat as ever they wanted, and every day a great quantity of honey was carried in to them.
  • "Now we will begin to build." The old Bees took the wax, and began to build a number of little six-sided cells, all alike and close up to one another.
  • When I first used this Nursery, I did not give the bees access to it, and I found that the queens were not properly developed, and died in their cells.
  • I opened it on the 5th of February, and although the weather, until within a week of that time, had been unusually cold, I found many of the cells filled with brood.