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.
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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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