How to Use bloodstream in a Sentence
bloodstream
noun- The drug is now entering the bloodstream.
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The gene keeps iron in a bat's bloodstream and out of the intestines.
—Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2022
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Fans are the bloodstream of sports and they should be cherished.
—Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 20 May 2022
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Dopamine only lasts a minute or two in the bloodstream.
—Megan Molteni, STAT, 12 July 2021
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That meant most of the medication didn’t make it to the bloodstream — much less to the nose.
—Christina Jewett, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
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Like smoking, cannaboids pass through the lungs and into the bloodstream.
—Blaine Callahan, Hartford Courant, 10 Jan. 2023
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Enzymes in the bloodstream chew it up in a matter of minutes.
—Megan Molteni and Elaine Chen, STAT, 30 Sep. 2023
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Then, the cells are infused back into the bloodstream through an IV.
—William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024
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These tiny particles can get lodged in the lungs and move into the bloodstream.
—Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 24 Apr. 2023
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Gout is caused by high levels of uric acid building up in the bloodstream over time.
—Lana Barhum, Verywell Health, 27 Sep. 2024
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The cup remains in the mouth for a few minutes, enough time for the drug to dissolve in saliva and enter the bloodstream.
—Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Nov. 2023
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The partners sometimes even share a bloodstream, which helps sustain the male.
—Kate Golembiewski, CNN, 14 Feb. 2023
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Most donors give stem cells that are harvested from the bloodstream before the blood is returned to the body.
—Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 17 Feb. 2023
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The bad cells then spill out of the marrow into the bloodstream and across the immune and nervous systems.
—Max G. Levy, Wired, 10 Feb. 2022
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Salmonella may spread from the intestines to the bloodstream, and then to other places in the body.
—Sue Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 23 Oct. 2021
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When inhaled, the particles can travel to the lungs and bloodstream.
—The Arizona Republic, 21 Mar. 2023
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The liquid in which the stem cells are frozen — once in the bloodstream, circulated through the lungs, and breathed out — creates a nasty taste.
—Brittany Trang, STAT, 13 Dec. 2023
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The tiny particles can lodge deep in a person’s lungs, even their bloodstream.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Feb. 2023
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Toxins from the Aral have been found in the bloodstream of Antarctic penguins.
—Henry Wismayer, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2022
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The ferritin test is a blood test that measures ferritin levels in the bloodstream.
—Lindsay Curtis, Health, 5 Nov. 2024
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Without insulin, blood sugar can build up in the bloodstream and break down the body’s own fat and muscle.
—Jen Christensen, CNN, 17 Nov. 2022
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As such, by the time the drug reaches the bloodstream it’s become oil soluble instead, ready to get to work.
—Michael Irving, New Atlas, 8 Oct. 2024
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In turn, insulin is required to escort sugar out of the bloodstream and into the cells.
—Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 7 July 2022
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The tiny particles lodge deep in a person’s lungs, even their bloodstream.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2022
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And what happens here, for better or worse, is in the bloodstream of the way the media reports and frames issues all around the country.
—Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 8 July 2021
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When a cell dies in a tumor, a growing fetus or elsewhere in the body, bits and pieces of its DNA enter the bloodstream.
—Anna Goshua, Scientific American, 19 July 2021
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The monkeys developed none of the classic symptoms such as fever and rashes or showed viremia, the presence of the virus in the bloodstream.
—Brian Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Nov. 2022
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The clots seen with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine formed even in patients who had low platelet counts in their bloodstream.
—Jim Daley, Scientific American, 23 Apr. 2021
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That is thought to be due to slower emptying of the stomach, preventing high levels of sugar from being absorbed quickly into the bloodstream.
—Vruti Venkatesan, NBC News, 2 Feb. 2025
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If scuba divers don’t take precautions, the nitrogen bubbles in their bloodstream can cause decompression sickness.
—Mariette Williams, Essence, 25 Feb. 2025
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