How to Use spleen in a Sentence

spleen

noun
  • The force of the fall crushed John's spleen and cut his feet to shreds.
    Meg Kissinger, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2021
  • The prions also sweep through lymph nodes and the spleen.
    Carl Zimmer, The Seattle Times, 30 June 2017
  • Macrophages have even been found to aid in the recycling of iron in the spleen and liver.
    Quanta Magazine, 11 Feb. 2020
  • Alexander Pushkin was in a state of anguish and spleen.
    The Economist, 6 June 2020
  • The bacterium was found in the boy's brain, lung, liver, and spleen.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 10 Aug. 2022
  • The spleen nearly touches the curvature of the stomach and a section of the colon.
    D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2019
  • His spleen was ruptured and his pelvis broken in five places.
    Town & Country, 1 Oct. 2022
  • Cam nails it with a MacGyver flourish, closing the wound with her hair clip when the spleen bursts.
    Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2022
  • Their lymph nodes were enlarged, as were their spleens, but the men appeared to be free of disease.
    Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2018
  • The lymph system includes the lymph nodes as well as bone marrow, the spleen, and the thymus gland, the Mayo Clinic says.
    Sarah Jacoby, SELF, 20 Oct. 2020
  • Kelly was told his spleen would have to be removed if the bleeding didn't stop.
    Charmaine Patterson, PEOPLE.com, 29 Mar. 2022
  • The man can't get from a subject to a verb without removing a chunk of his own spleen.
    Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 22 May 2015
  • The bullet, his father said, chipped a piece of his spine and stopped between his spleen and lung on his left side.
    Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 14 Dec. 2021
  • The crash broke his neck, ruptured his diaphragm and shredded his spleen.
    Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2019
  • Lymph nodes around both the spleen and liver were also enlarged.
    Amitha Kalaichandran, Discover Magazine, 9 Aug. 2020
  • This enables them to slip through the membranes of cells in places where HIV tends to hide, like the liver, lymph tissue, and spleen.
    Alice Park, Time, 2 July 2019
  • The bullet went through her chest, shredded the bottom of her lung, fractured her ribs and scraped her spleen.
    Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Both his spleen and gallbladder were removed, as well as part of his colon.
    Kathleen McKenna, BostonGlobe.com, 28 May 2018
  • The cause was a ruptured spleen and pneumonia, said a son, Chris Garnett.
    Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2018
  • For raw spleen, John B. could match crossedness for crossedness.
    David Wright Faladé, The New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2020
  • Borseti was rushed to the hospital, where doctors removed his spleen and saved his life.
    Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2022
  • Watson was able to get up again and had almost made it out the door when Al-Shamrani returned a third time and shot him in the spleen.
    al, 31 May 2021
  • A bull slammed him against a wall, broke all his ribs on both sides, punctured both his lungs, and ruptured his spleen and liver.
    Audrey Dutton, idahostatesman, 11 July 2017
  • These cells adhere to the walls of the veins and arteries, instead of being swept into the spleen, to be destroyed.
    Donald G. McNeil Jr., Star Tribune, 14 Nov. 2020
  • Minnesota wildlife researchers have a thing for deer spleens this fall.
    Dave Orrick, Twin Cities, 5 Nov. 2019
  • Their spleen stores RBCs, and the researchers found that to eject more into the bloodstream, the organ contracts to weigh 41 percent less.
    Priyanka Runwal, Scientific American, 30 Mar. 2020
  • Samples from his spleen have been sent for further testing, the statement said.
    Adam Sennott, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2023
  • Piazza died the next morning from a fractured skull and a ruptured spleen.
    Cleve R. Wootson Jr. and Susan Svrluga, Washington Post, 12 June 2017
  • It was determined that his death was caused by traumatic brain injuries and spleen damage.
    Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 31 July 2024
  • Jim: Maybe the best-case scenario for Democrats is that Trump, overconfident from his current surge, starts venting his spleen and seeming even more unhinged.
    James Hohmann, Washington Post, 9 July 2024

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