How to Use draw blood in a Sentence

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  • The ball's impact did draw blood, which caused the game to be stopped.
    Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 14 Sep. 2021
  • The leaves of the plant are sharp enough to draw blood, and the slip of a machete can lead to permanent injury.
    Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2021
  • Dan hits himself repeatedly to draw blood, which drips on the floor.
    Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 June 2022
  • Doctors must draw blood samples from patients suspected to have the virus, which are sent off to labs that can test for the strain.
    Alexander Tin, CBS News, 25 Oct. 2022
  • One of the agents went to the hospital before San Diego police knew about the case and asked the doctor to draw blood to test for drugs, according to the letter.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Nov. 2021
  • There’s a good deal of evidence that Maya kings would cut or pierce themselves, with bone awls, stone blades and even the spines of stingrays to draw blood as an offering to the gods.
    Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 29 Dec. 2020
  • The next step is to draw blood and analyze a sample of your poop to check for anemia and rule out infections like E. coli and C. difficile.
    Rebecca Joy Stanborough, SELF, 7 Jan. 2022
  • At the state's direction, hospitals have routinely pricked the heels of newborns to draw blood to check for more than 50 rare diseases.
    Ed White, Detroit Free Press, 23 June 2022
  • For the study, researchers will draw blood and vaccinate participants twice, four weeks apart.
    Meredith Cohn, baltimoresun.com, 10 Aug. 2020
  • When Hansell and her classmates entered school, nurses were not expected to draw blood, place IVs, or even carry stethoscopes.
    Shari Rudavsky, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Apr. 2022
  • The clots filled needles used to draw blood, or the tubing connecting patients to medication drips and machines.
    Amber Dance Knowable Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Aug. 2020
  • Doctors also joined an artery and a vein in his arm creating a fistula that helped draw blood more easily.
    Alice Li, Washington Post, 14 June 2023
  • The toys project Orbeez pellets, or similar water-absorbent polymer beads that can inflict pain, leave a welt or draw blood.
    cleveland, 21 July 2022
  • According to a police report obtained by the Miami Herald, the daughter told police that Stoudemire, 40, struck her with enough force to draw blood.
    Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Frances had spent her life in the medical field working as a phlebotomist, or healthcare professional trained to draw blood from patients.
    Howard Koplowitz | Hkoplowitz@al.com, al, 16 Dec. 2020
  • Continetti poked the establishment to get its attention, not to draw blood.
    Timothy Shenk, The New Republic, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Last week, the news that André 3000 would be releasing an album of instrumental flute jams was greeted with enough head-scratching to draw blood.
    David Browne, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2023
  • But its barbs aren’t designed to draw blood so much as to nudge playfully at a knowing audience, like a saucy host at an awards ceremony.
    Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Sep. 2022
  • But the third tilted over into 30 Rock-level absurdity, and in doing so delivered jabs sharp enough to draw blood.
    Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 June 2023
  • New Jack was best known for a hardcore, violent style, frequently cutting himself and his opponent with a blade to draw blood.
    Houston Mitchell Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2021
  • But like, c'mon — every queen on RuPaul's Drag Race would draw blood to have a runway transformation this sickening.
    Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 16 Mar. 2023
  • To confirm a diagnosis, doctors typically draw blood and send it off to a lab for testing.
    Aria Bendix, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Without any signs of impairment, there was no probable cause to get a warrant to draw blood, sheriff Alex Villanueva said.
    Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 7 Apr. 2021
  • But measuring blood glucose involves using a needle to draw blood.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 30 July 2021
  • Nurses also can draw blood and quickly run several tests before a patient leaves.
    Sarah Swetlik | Sswetlik@al.com, al, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Payton said officials might draw blood from a defendant to test their chromosomes.
    Will Langhorne, Arkansas Online, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Shot in black-and-white in the boxy Academy ratio, we're transported into an uncanny world of castles sculpted out of light and shadow in angles sharp enough to draw blood.
    CNN, 14 Jan. 2022
  • And some clinics are working with pharmacies that can draw blood and have standing orders for some medications.
    New York Times, 28 Oct. 2020
  • The toys project Orbeez pellets, or similar water-absorbent polymer beads that can inflict pain, leave a welt or draw blood, reports John Tucker.
    Mike Rose, cleveland, 22 July 2022
  • The device is surgically implanted and attached to a vein in her upper chest area in order for healthcare providers to draw blood and give treatments without a needle stick.
    Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 14 Feb. 2024

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