How to Use injection in a Sentence

injection

noun
  • The medicine cannot be taken orally; it must be given by injection.
  • The struggling company needed an injection of cash.
  • Burning or numbness around the injection site is the most common adverse effect.
    Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The highest infection rate is in adults under 40, who have the lowest treatment rates and the most common spread through injection drug use.
    Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Of course, there are risks of complications with fat injection, too, including asymmetry or lumpiness.
    Taryn Brooke, Allure, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Among the long-term proposals, the most prominent calls for the injection of seawater into aquifers deep underground.
    Stefano Pitrelli, Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2022
  • The drug, called Tzield, is a monoclonal antibody injection.
    Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Miller would have been the first person in U.S. history to face a second execution by lethal injection.
    Evan Mealins, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2022
  • It was first scheduled in 2020, but South Carolina didn't have the lethal injection drugs to carry it out.
    Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Wegovy, Ozempic and Trulicity are all given by injection.
    Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 21 Nov. 2022
  • These drugs, delivered every few weeks via injection, work by targeting the immune cells, proteins, genes, or pathways that underlie asthma symptoms.
    Markham Heid, Time, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Taken once a week by injection in the thigh, stomach or arm, the medications have gained popularity in Hollywood and amongst people of all ages for weight loss.
    Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 29 Oct. 2024
  • The 18-minute-long trans-lunar injection, or TLI, burn was expected about 90 minutes after launch.
    William Harwood, CBS News, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Malkovich adds an injection of prestige to the project.
    Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 May 2024
  • The second week of injections was when things started to change.
    Paige Stables, Allure, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Still, there are likely to be many patients who are turned off by the idea of injections.
    Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 1 June 2023
  • All of the wastewater will be disposed of through deep well injection.
    Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 3 Mar. 2023
  • None of the 2,134 women taking the twice-a-year injection contracted the virus.
    Meghana Keshavan, STAT, 21 June 2024
  • If an injection is painful, apply pressure to the site for a few seconds, but do not rub it.
    Barbie Cervoni, Rd, Verywell Health, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Such injections are common and only barred by HISA in the two weeks before a race.
    Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 16 May 2024
  • After the water cools off the equipment, it gets pushed deep down below the ground via injection wells.
    Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 2 Feb. 2024
  • None of it matters without the injection of fire that Tina Turner brings.
    Lars Brandle, Billboard, 25 May 2023
  • Why should a once-a-week injection produce much more weight loss than a once-a-day injection?
    Gina Kolata, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2023
  • William Speer, 49, is set to receive a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville.
    CBS News, 26 Oct. 2023
  • In one episode, some of the women bond at a med spa by getting Botox injections together.
    Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2024
  • There is a version of a drug like this that can be taken via pill, but [most versions are] a weekly injection.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2023
  • The facility got oxygen injections, and the team had some food supplies stored ahead of time—cheating in the view of some, but who wants to die in a glass house?
    Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 10 July 2023
  • The most common complaints were redness at the injection site and fatigue.
    Jen Christensen, CNN, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Even Botox injections done by a professional—and with the proper drug—have their risks.
    Simmone Shah, TIME, 22 Apr. 2024
  • Narcan is the brand name of naloxone, which is administered as an injection and, as in the case of Narcan, as a nasal spray.
    Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2023

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