How to Use blood poisoning in a Sentence

blood poisoning

noun

• Bizarrely, these soldiers were less prone to blood poisoning and infections.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 17 Dec. 2010
• To cap it all, Elizabeth, the queen’s personal housemaid, died of blood poisoning.
  — Jonathan Miles, Town & Country, 5 Sep. 2023
• Internal injuries caused by the beating and blood poisoning were listed as causes of death.
  — Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2018
• One consequence of prolonged heat exposure can be a kind of blood poisoning.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
• Along the way he’s battled everything from pneumonia, fevers, gastroenteritis and the flu to shin splints, back pain, nerve damage, blood poisoning and lots of blisters.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2020
• Simpson wanted to work on sepsis, a blood poisoning caused by infections.
  — Andy Marso, kansascity, 3 Nov. 2017
• The infection can lead to both meningitis and a serious infection of the bloodstream called sepsis, or blood poisoning.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 12 Jan. 2023
• The cause was severe blood poisoning and acute organ dysfunction brought on by salmonella.
  — Bernice Yeung, ProPublica, 29 Oct. 2021
• It is rumored that Queen Elizabeth died from blood poisoning as a result of an untreated tooth infection.
  — Nicole Spector /, NBC News, 24 Oct. 2017
• Swallowing more than one powerful magnet can lead the objects to attract each other inside the intestines, which can puncture holes inside the abdomen that may lead to blood poisoning.
  — Wilson Wong, NBC News, 19 Nov. 2020
• Septicemia is the clinical name for blood poisoning by bacteria, according to Johns Hopkins Medicine.
  — Jared Goffinet and Ken Brown, The Enquirer, 28 Sep. 2022
• When kids swallow more than one powerful magnet, the objects can attract each inside the intestines, boring holes into the abdomen that can lead to life-threatening blood poisoning.
  — Lindsey Tanner, The Seattle Times, 12 Apr. 2019
• Swallowing more than one powerful magnet can lead the objects to attract each other inside the intestines, puncturing holes inside the abdomen that may lead to blood poisoning.
  — Wilson Wong, NBC News, 17 June 2021
• Patients have presented with a variety of conditions ranging from eye infections to blood poisoning, often called sepsis, the CDC said.
  — Bloomberg News, oregonlive, 11 Feb. 2023
• Sepsis, also known as septicemia, is blood poisoning caused by bacteria entering the bloodstream, according to Johns Hopkins Medicine.
  — Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE.com, 17 Oct. 2019
• Mora, at the University of Hawaii, described 27 different ways the body reacts to overheating, from kidney failure to blood poisoning when the gut lining disintegrates.
  — Aryn Baker, Time, 12 Sep. 2019
• Corinne Suter of Switzerland was third, 0.05 behind — a remarkable result for a racer who nearly needed to have her right foot amputated last year after blood poisoning that almost went untreated when training at Stelvio, Italy.
  — Steve Douglas, The Seattle Times, 5 Feb. 2019
• Mullane also got blood poisoning from an ingrown nail, so there were some extenuating circumstances.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 29 May 2021
• Lewis was reportedly diagnosed with toxic shock syndrome, blood poisoning and flesh-eating disease.
  — Alexandria Hein, Fox News, 4 July 2018
• According to South Korean newswire Yonhap, one of the deceased was a 63-year-old nursing home resident with cerebrovascular disease, who died after showing symptoms of blood poisoning and pneumonia.
  — Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021
• Vaccination could cause blood poisoning; this was not intuitive in the age before germ theory but is no surprise to us today, as cowpox pus was harvested under far from sterile conditions and often harboured farmyard bacteria.
  — The Economist, 30 Aug. 2019
• Less fanciful hazards of vaccination were alleged to include tuberculosis, madness, blood poisoning, cancer and syphilis.
  — The Economist, 30 Aug. 2019
• Many bacterial infections, including pneumonia, tuberculosis, gonorrhea, blood poisoning and various foodborne diseases, have become harder—and in some cases, impossible—to treat because of rising microbial resistance to antibiotics.
  — Stephanie Stone, Scientific American, 23 July 2022
• Also, the bacteria has been associated with severe intestinal infection (necrotizing enterocolitis) and blood poisoning (sepsis), especially in newborns.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 23 June 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024