BLOOD in a Sentence

Learn BLOOD from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
350 example sentences for BLOOD, such as:
1. The animal was weak through loss of blood.
2. Ethan felt the blood drumming in his temples.
3. They took blood and urine specimens for analysis.
4. Where the deer is slain, some of her blood will lie.
5. The blood vessels may leak fluid, which distorts vision.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of BLOOD
blood
 v.  smear with blood, as in a hunting initiation rite, where the face of a person is smeared with the blood of the kill
 n.  a dissolute man in fashionable society
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The leader of the reel, who looked as if he had Irish blood in his veins, danced well, and his partner caught his fire.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  The blood rushed to his thin skin under the sting of Hale's astonishment.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
3  He had hardly spoken when he remembered the excuse he had made for not accompanying his wife to the station the day before; and the blood rose to his frowning brows.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
4  Ethan felt the blood drumming in his temples.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
5  He started down the road toward their house, but at the end of a few yards he pulled up sharply, the blood in his face.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
6  As they flew toward the tree Mattie pressed her arms tighter, and her blood seemed to be in his veins.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
7  She was shining black, pure African, devoted to her last drop of blood to the O'Haras, Ellen's mainstay, the despair of her three daughters, the terror of the other house servants.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
8  The red furrows and the gashed red road lost their magical blood color and became plain brown earth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
9  His wife must be a lady and a lady of blood, with as many airs and graces as Mrs. Wilkes and the ability to manage Tara as well as Mrs. Wilkes ordered her own domain.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
10  Many had moved for no reason at all, except that the restless blood of pioneering fathers still quickened in their veins.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
11  Indian blood was plain in her features, overbalancing the negroid characteristics.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
12  She was self-possessed and walked with a dignity that surpassed even Mammy's, for Mammy had acquired her dignity and Dilcey's was in her blood.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
13  You can breed a mare to a brother or a sire to a daughter and get good results if you know your blood strains, but in people it just doesn't work.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
14  She did not know who he could be, but there was undeniably a look of good blood in his dark face.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
15  She felt that she could claw Melanie's ivory skin till the blood ran and take pleasure in doing it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
Example Sentence: (140 in 10 pages)
1  I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace.
2  Despite the large amount of blood, it was only a flesh wound.
3  They collect blood samples for analysis at a national laboratory.
4  The blood samples are sent to the laboratory for analysis.
5  They took blood and urine specimens for analysis.
6  The animal was weak through loss of blood.
7  After the battle, the whole field was weltering in blood.
8  In Britain, AIDS tests are now performed on all people who offer to become blood donors.
9  The rupture of a blood vessel usually cause the mark of a bruise.
10  The blood vessels may leak fluid, which distorts vision.
11  Where the deer is slain, some of her blood will lie.
12  The reduction in white blood cell counts lowers resistance to disease.
13  The tiger has once tasted blood is never sated with the taste of it.
14  We couldn't feel the changes in the blood pressure within the artery.
15  The make-up woman daubed mock blood on Jeremy.