How to Use bloodstream in a Sentence

bloodstream

noun

• The drug is now entering the bloodstream.
• The gene keeps iron in a bat's bloodstream and out of the intestines.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2022
• Fans are the bloodstream of sports and they should be cherished.
  — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 20 May 2022
• Dopamine only lasts a minute or two in the bloodstream.
  — Megan Molteni, STAT, 12 July 2021
• 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
• Like smoking, cannaboids pass through the lungs and into the bloodstream.
  — Blaine Callahan, Hartford Courant, 10 Jan. 2023
• When most mammals hold their breath, CO2 builds up in the bloodstream.
  — Jonathan Lambert, NPR, 26 Mar. 2025
• Oxygen moves from the lungs to the bloodstream, as carbon dioxide flows back to the lungs.
  — Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2021
• Enzymes in the bloodstream chew it up in a matter of minutes.
  — Megan Molteni and Elaine Chen, STAT, 30 Sep. 2023
• Then, the cells are infused back into the bloodstream through an IV.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024
• These tiny particles can get lodged in the lungs and move into the bloodstream.
  — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 24 Apr. 2023
• Gout is caused by high levels of uric acid building up in the bloodstream over time.
  — Lana Barhum, Verywell Health, 27 Sep. 2024
• 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
• The partners sometimes even share a bloodstream, which helps sustain the male.
  — Kate Golembiewski, CNN, 14 Feb. 2023
• 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
• 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
• This slows the release of blood sugar into the bloodstream.
  — Yvelette Stines, Verywell Health, 18 Mar. 2025
• 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
• When inhaled, the particles can travel to the lungs and bloodstream.
  — The Arizona Republic, 21 Mar. 2023
• 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
• The tiny particles can lodge deep in a person’s lungs, even their bloodstream.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Feb. 2023
• Toxins from the Aral have been found in the bloodstream of Antarctic penguins.
  — Henry Wismayer, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2022
• The ferritin test is a blood test that measures ferritin levels in the bloodstream.
  — Lindsay Curtis, Health, 5 Nov. 2024
• 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
• 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
• In turn, insulin is required to escort sugar out of the bloodstream and into the cells.
  — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 7 July 2022
• The tiny particles lodge deep in a person’s lungs, even their bloodstream.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2022
• Then your body absorbs the simple sugars, which make their way to your bloodstream.
  — Julie Stewart, SELF, 25 Mar. 2021
• 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
• For example, people can contract that infection in the bloodstream, a wound or their ears but fevers are common.
  — Kevin Sabet, Newsweek, 24 Mar. 2025