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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • From injection to implantation, one round of IVF takes four to eight weeks.
    Spencer Goidel, The Conversation, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Bryan Ortiz quit a job as a paramedic to help people at a safe injection site for drugs like fentanyl and heroin.
    Sharon Otterman, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Two meant more injections, more money and more weeping in public places.
    Alex Zaragoza, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Here’s how prompt injection works and the potential fallout of a real-world attack.
    Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Common side effects include headache, chills, fever, nausea and pain or swelling at the injection site, according to the CDC.
    Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Having nerves about injections is a very common thing, and your doctor will be able to understand your fears around this.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 24 Sep. 2023
  • The work to defend bots against prompt injection issues is ongoing, as people find new ways to hack chatbots and avoid their rules.
    Matt Burgess, WIRED, 29 Nov. 2023
  • In the final six months, monthly injections slowed the disease by an average of 30 percent.
    Ryan Cross, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Mar. 2023
  • According to local reports, Bluestein is set to die by lethal injection at 10 a.m. ET.
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The patient had begun injections of semaglutide for weight loss two months before.
    Alexander Tin, CBS News, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Santana, who worked as a nurse in Mexico years ago, swabbed her husband’s left arm and gave him an injection of insulin.
    Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2023
  • The medications are taken by injection in the thigh, stomach or arm.
    Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 4 Jan. 2024
  • For those people, cash injections of the magnitude Chopra was talking about could be life-changing.
    Time, 27 July 2023
  • To test whether the injection was effective, the researchers set up two, four-month mating trials with male cats that began eight and 20 months after the treatment.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 June 2023
  • Common side effects include pain, redness, or swelling at the injection site.
    Sherri Gordon, Health, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The new vaccines come with common vaccine side effects including swelling or pain at the injection site, fever, and headache, among others.
    Sherri Gordon, Health, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Put the cream on their skin before the injection, following your health care provider's instructions, to desensitize the area.
    Rachel Rabkin Peachman, Parents, 21 Sep. 2023
  • After the first injection, 26 people returned for a second injection on the other side of their neck at least six weeks later.
    Aria Bendix, NBC News, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Tyler Glasnow, scratched from his start Sunday at Detroit due to back spasms, received an injection Tuesday.
    Baltimore Sun, 8 Aug. 2023

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