How to Use blood in a Sentence

blood

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  • The accident victim has already lost a lot of blood.
  • There was blood in the room and an odor that smelled like a body.
    — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Nov. 2023
  • This was a long haul and a great deal of blood, sweat and tears.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 6 Dec. 2023
  • The tests confirmed that the stain was Megan’s blood, Hart said.
    — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The 84-year-old wiped away some blood and finished the game.
    — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2023
  • The blood that will flow from mine will be of the same color as yours.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 16 May 2023
  • Sometimes, the area gets so tight that blood flow is slowed and a clot forms.
    — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 12 Apr. 2024
  • The video clips also did not show blood on her, Amador said.
    — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 11 May 2023
  • The virus, found in blood and body fluids, can live on a surface for up to a month.
    — Taryn Chapman, Parents, 28 Sep. 2023
  • There was a lot of blood on the floor, but besides that, the owner was distraught.
    — Jordan Freiman, CBS News, 18 June 2023
  • Rain can wipe out a blood trail in a hurry, so the shorter yours is, the better.
    — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 4 May 2023
  • New research shows that Vlad the Impaler may have cried tears of blood.
    — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 18 Aug. 2023
  • At a nearby hospital, doctors tried to stanch the flow of blood from the head of a child laid out on the floor.
    — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Get a bit of blood under your nails. ’Tis the season, after all.
    — Eva Wiseman, Vogue, 21 Dec. 2023
  • But this is a scenario that would only drown the nation in more blood.
    — Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2023
  • Victims could be seen sprawled in the square, surrounded by pools of blood.
    — Marc Santora, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2023
  • But that meant leaving two sons who have the same blood disorder in a war zone.
    — Omar Abdel-Baqui, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2023
  • The gallows were there; so were the ropes and, most chilling, the screaming faces of white men and women yelling for the blood of Mike Pence.
    — Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Cardiac arrest occurs when the heart stops beating and pumping blood to the rest of the body.
    — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 11 Apr. 2024
  • There are two types of calcium in the blood: bound and free calcium.
    — Sandra Gordon, Health, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The teenager stands in the middle of a hospital ward, his tank top covered in blood.
    — Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2023
  • The explosion was controlled, the victims and gunmen were actors, and the blood was fake.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The blood trail was sparse, but Haack eventually followed it to the edge of small pond on the property.
    — Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Police found Woll with multiple stab wounds and a trail of blood leading to her house.
    — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 22 Oct. 2023
  • Photographs taken after the assault showed that the cell’s walls were smeared with blood and a sink had been ripped out of a wall in the chaos.
    — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2023
  • The suspect was also injured during the scuffle and left blood inside the home.
    — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The last ditch effort was to put her on dialysis to try to clean the acid and the white blood cells to help provide healthy blood to all of her organs.
    — Georgia Slater, Peoplemag, 26 Sep. 2023
  • The changes are expected to increase blood supply safely, the FDA said.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 12 May 2023
  • The post ends with a knife emoji, followed by a hatchet emoji and three drops of blood emojis.
    — Jeremy Childs, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2023
  • Within a day, his left foot had grown cold, a sign that blood likely no longer flowed freely through his vessels.
    — Annie Waldman, ProPublica, 24 May 2023

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