How to Use graft in a Sentence

graft

1 of 2 noun

• The graft still combats the cancer but perhaps not the host.
  — Max G. Levy, Wired, 10 Feb. 2022
• After a tissue graft, lips will be swollen and stiff for about a week.
  — Jolene Edgar, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 June 2023
• That’s the graft, the point where the rootstock and the fruiting wood are grafted together. Cut the main trunk of the tree to hip height.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Jan. 2022
• If hustling and hard graft were an Olympic sport, Yashere would deserve a gold medal.
  — Seven Graham, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2022
• That’s the graft, the point where rootstock and the fruiting wood are grafted together.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2024
• Thaksin was sentenced to eight years in jail on graft charges on his return from 15 years in self exile.
  — TIME, 13 Feb. 2024
• To protect young citrus trees, mound soil at least 12 to 18 inches high around base of tree to protect graft union.
  — Roger Simmons, orlandosentinel.com, 28 Jan. 2022
• Seng survived the attack but had to undergo skin-graft surgery.
  — Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2021
• There was just so much graft in the construction industry.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2023
• Building a business or movement requires a lot of hard graft!
  — Rebekah Bastian, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
• The graft that takes the place of the diseased aorta is very strong, and the connections on either side are likewise unlikely to fail.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 9 June 2022
• Seeing it for the first time, the effect is soothing and layered, the hard graft behind it undetectable.
  — Jo Rodgers, Vogue, 26 Nov. 2021
• Grant received an arterial graft, taking a vein out of his left leg to give him a new popliteal artery in his right.
  — Stephen Borelli, USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2023
• And, as history tells us, perfection takes time and hard graft.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 9 Feb. 2024
• There was a series of surgeries to remove dead skin and graft replacements.
  — Mike Baker, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2023
• Meanwhile, with huge sums of money flowing into Ukraine, the graft may well be worse than ever.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2023
• Xi’s experience with Bo proved in his mind that factions and graft threatened to bring down the party.
  — Charlie Campbell, Time, 11 Oct. 2022
• The case pits money-as-free-speech claims against the government’s interest in curbing graft.
  — Dallas News, 19 Jan. 2022
• But the company’s vision is arguably at odds with those doing the daily graft.
  — Morgan Meaker, Wired, 30 Nov. 2021
• But there was a lot of petty graft—people trying to make money off of being the President.
  — Tyler Foggatt, The New Yorker, 17 June 2023
• The new treatment does not come with the risk of graft versus host disease the way that a traditional bone marrow transplant does.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 16 Nov. 2023
• He has since been convicted and jailed in a graft case, following which he has been barred from taking part in any election for five years.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 10 Aug. 2023
• Less than 6% of patients had the more major complication of full nipple graft loss.
  — H Conley, STAT, 2 June 2023
• Government agencies must build in safeguards to avoid graft.
  — Time, 23 Aug. 2023
• But anywhere there is money, there is potential for graft.
  — Andrew Beaton and Ben Cohen, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2022
• The cabinet-level shake-up comes amid a wide-ranging crackdown on graft as Ukraine seeks to project to its Western backers a hard line on the issue.
  — Serhiy Morgunov, Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2023
• As a general rule of thumb, the more extensive your hair loss issues and the higher the number of grafts that need to be transplanted, the more expensive the surgery.
  — Maria Williams, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
• As if all the years of his education, and his hard graft in medical school, could have been meant to end in that ghastly bedsit, or in a stuffy flat in Purley!
  — Tessa Hadley, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022
• Many in this city of skeptics question how well the MTA will spend the money, given its history of mismanagement, graft, and opacity.
  — Hillary Chura, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Apr. 2024
• That same day, his anticorruption movement released a 110-minute expose detailing years of graft by Putin and his cronies.
  — Anna Nemtsova, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2024

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graft

2 of 2 verb

• The next step is to attempt to graft the tree to preserve it and, in years to come, pass the tree to others.
  — oregonlive, 1 July 2021
• Then, in the third year, the plant is grafted together.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2023
• And in one test, the team achieved the same with human hair that had been grafted onto mice.
  — Max G. Levy, WIRED, 12 July 2023
• The grafted rose with all its canes and blooms was forever gone.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2023
• In the nearly four years that have passed since the incident, Bolger has had surgery to graft skin to repair the damage.
  — Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2020
• Any apple variety can be a dwarf if the tree is grafted to a dwarf-sized rootstock, Mohn says.
  — Nevin Martell, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2023
• Fruit growers who graft trees should remove thorns from the rootstock when grafting.
  — oregonlive, 6 Aug. 2022
• Shafer says that surgeons will sometimes graft fat into the thighs or hips, depending on what body shape the patient wants.
  — Audrey Noble, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Sep. 2022
• Learn how to graft apple or pear trees using bench grafting techniques.
  — Corey Sheldon | , oregonlive, 31 Mar. 2023
• And as doctors began the slow work of grafting healthy skin onto her wounds, she was placed under round-the-clock sedation.
  — Mike Baker, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2023
• Sometimes, even after several weeks the swelling has not receded enough to close the wound, so surgeons have to graft skin over the opening.
  — Gina Kolata, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Feb. 2021
• Many are grafted to combine the ideal flower onto a strong rootstock.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2024
• It could then be grafted on top of the bill that House Democratic leaders are trying to force onto the chamber floor, the congressman said.
  — Tony Romm, Washington Post, 8 May 2023
• This allows guests to graft their own tales onto the Adventureland Treehouse and the family that lives there.
  — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
• Eight of the operations were major surgeries where tissue was taken from another part of the body and grafted to the injured area of the face.
  — Juliet Butler, Peoplemag, 21 Dec. 2023
• The sculptor also grafted a west-facing porch onto his house, an 1817 former inn.
  — David Lyon, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2023
• At the moment, doctors often take blood vessels from one part of a patient's body and graft them into another body part.
  — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 28 Mar. 2019
• That’s because there are limits to how much fat surgeons can remove and graft during a single procedure; even more, not all of the fat transferred will stay.
  — Raquel Reichard, refinery29.com, 29 Mar. 2022
• And in Texas, someone allegedly did the same to a female teacher, grafting her head onto a woman in a pornographic video.
  — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2024
• Trump appears to be missing his ring finger on his right hand, at the very least, and his thumbs are grafted on in a jumbled mess that seems to defy basic human anatomy.
  — Matt Novak, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
• Those grafted atop a straight trunk of Higan cherry (P. x subhirtella) offer a more formal look.
  — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 13 June 2023
• In surgery, a small incision is typically made and a tendon grafted from another area of the body may be used to fix the ruputure and reconnect the Achilles.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 12 Sep. 2023
• In this hands-on workshop, participants will graft and take home a semi-dwarf producing apple tree, suitable for the coastal climate.
  — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2022
• To this day, all of Europe’s famous grapes grow on vines that have been grafted onto American rootstock to protect against phylloxera.
  — Alex Mayyasi, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
• Patterson sent over all the parts from his Heroes & Gods sessions, so Harris could graft vocal leads, harmonies, and ad-libs onto the new compositions.
  — Elias Leight, Rolling Stone, 19 Nov. 2021
• Currently—and ultimately?—Porsche has jacked up the car and grafted a number of hi-tech behavioral fixes into its outdated chassis.
  — Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 21 Feb. 2023
• There’s a temptation, seen widely throughout commentary on the event over the past few weeks, to graft it onto ongoing disputes about campus culture.
  — David M. Perry, CNN, 9 Jan. 2023
• The stone walls are hollow and grafted onto a steel frame, masking a complex system of ventilation and climate control inside a building that has more than 1,000 rooms.
  — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 July 2023
• The generation born into a fraught promise of social mobility can find some element of the movie to graft their own feelings onto.
  — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2021
• The researchers tested this by grafting human skin samples onto mice, then giving the animals three injections of the molecule, spaced one day apart.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 24 June 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024