Collocations for "cell"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "cell" in context.
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cell
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- a [prison, jail, holding] cell
- [held, locked, detained] in a [prison] cell
- was [thrown, hurled, forced, dragged] into the cell
- [deposited, stored, kept, protected] in a cell
- a [fuel, battery] cell
- [mother, healthy, infected, cancer] cells
- [brain, body, embryonic, stem] cells
- [red, white] blood cells
- The cells have [regenerated, mutated].
- [attacks, leaches onto, destroys] (healthy) cells
- can [diminish, damage, alter] your brain cells
- My brain cells are [fried, frozen]!
- the [death, production, generation, regeneration, growth] of cells
- [led, started, joined] a [terrorist, radical, splinter] cell
- [tracked down, broke up, destroyed] the [terrorist] cell
- use your cell to [call, make, send]
- cell [death, production, generation, regeneration, growth]
- [studies, research] into cell [death]
- [abnormal, high, low, unusual] cell growth
- [have, use] a cell phone
- what's your cell phone number?
'cell' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Christmas
- advertisement
- aspect
- back
- bar
- bastard
- booster
- buy
- call
- cleaner
- confined
- contact
- count
- coverage
- culture
- die
- fast
- fling
- forefront
- formation
- formula
- gap
- gloomy
- growth
- host
- input
- isolate
- key
- loneliness
- low on
- message
- mobile
- neat
- newsletter
- night
- number
- palm
- phone
- provider
- rascal
- reception
- recovery
- scientist
- shut
- signal
- snapshot
- splinter
- stare
- station
- steal