How to Use arterial in a Sentence

arterial

1 of 2 adjective

• Blood pressure is the force that the blood exerts against the arterial walls.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Oct. 2023
• Grant received an arterial graft, taking a vein out of his left leg to give him a new popliteal artery in his right.
  — Stephen Borelli, USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2023
• After the cloud bursts, a crackling web of lacy, arterial threads spread throughout the sky.
  — Deborah Vankin Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2022
• But hose require big IVs and arterial catheters to use, so there’s some danger in that.
  — Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE.com, 1 Apr. 2020
• The wall will extend across the front of the neighborhood that faces Panther Creek Parkway to block some of the noise from along the arterial roadway.
  — Susan McFarland, Dallas News, 12 Apr. 2023
• One of the main plans was to add more sidewalks to the downtown area, as well as arterial streets becoming wider, Richey said.
  — Lynn Kutter, Arkansas Online, 10 Sep. 2022
• The concept behind the ABI test is based on the fact that arterial blood pressure should be similar all around the body.
  — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 30 Dec. 2022
• Even the sea of 911 SCs filling the arterial parking lots end up looking like a car show within a car show.
  — Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 13 Sep. 2021
• But the 55-foot-wide carriage drive of Olmsted’s day is now a six-lane arterial road.
  — Diana Budds, Curbed, 4 Aug. 2022
• The key is using heavyweights of at least 60% of max to assault the muscle and occlude arterial blood flow.
  — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 12 May 2022
• And look to the Rhine, an arterial river that rises in the Alps and flows through multiple countries toward the North Sea.
  — WIRED, 14 Mar. 2023
• The site of Brown’s family house—which burned down a hundred years ago—was in the woods, up a somnolent arterial road named for Brown.
  — John Lahr, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2020
• But those who need to get from place to place, like from home to work and back again, often have little choice but to ride along high-speed arterial roads and on sidewalks.
  — Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Aug. 2023
• All of the body’s arteries -- from the aorta, the main arterial blood vessel, down through to the toes -- can be blocked by cholesterol and calcium plaques.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 3 June 2021
• He was diagnosed with three femoral arterial blood clots, which were cutting off blood flow to his left foot.
  — Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2022
• Symptoms of arterial worm in deer A golfball- to grapefruit-sized lump in a deer’s mouth is a classic sign of arterial worm.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 29 Feb. 2024
• Even short trips could have consequences as side streets and non-main arterial roads are often the last to be treated against ice, or have snow removed.
  — oregonlive, 22 Dec. 2022
• This decreases the pressure exerted by the blood on the arterial walls.
  — Amber Sayer, Health, 25 Sep. 2023
• In Hyannis, teams of snowplows are moving up and down arterial roads like Highway 6 and Iyannough Road where there are a string of hotels.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Jan. 2022
• Schroth said most of the stormwater would go to a new, larger sewer along New York Street, to be installed during work done on the major arterial street this coming year.
  — Steve Lord, chicagotribune.com, 28 Oct. 2021
• Six-lane arterial roads like the one Linton raced through can encourage drivers to blow past speed limits.
  — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2022
• At the same time, Jenne doesn’t want the stimulus money to be used as an excuse to keep alive the three new arterial highways the Legislature approved last year.
  — Gray Rohrer, orlandosentinel.com, 13 Mar. 2021
• The project calls for turning the street into a major arterial route that will link Johnson Avenue to Interstate 555.
  — USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2019
• In July 2011, a rebellious college student opened an art space in the arterial edge of East Dallas.
  — Lauren Smart, Dallas News, 30 July 2021
• As in your case, arterial testing (that’s what your vein specialist did) is normal.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 4 Nov. 2021
• There will be no parking allowed on any of Racine's arterial or collector streets.
  — Journal Sentinel, 21 Dec. 2022
• Experts point to a range of factors in these deaths, with more happening at night or on arterial roads, and issues like speed and distraction playing a role.
  — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 27 Feb. 2024
• At one point last month, gangs shut down the main arterial road from the capital to the country’s south, blocking off access to both the petroleum reserves and the rest of the country, Mr. Pierre pointed out.
  — New York Times, 9 July 2021
• But an arterial clot in his right shoulder derailed his 2017 season, and Familia hasn't been a full-time closer since.
  — José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 20 Feb. 2023
• The singer died after being in a coma following emergency surgery for an arterial tear.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 15 Mar. 2024

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arterial

2 of 2 noun

• Indian Trail is a major arterial in the city through both the East and West sides.
  — Steve Lord, Aurora Beacon-News, 28 Feb. 2018
• The train derailment Monday spilled cars onto the highway and closed the southbound lanes of the state's main north-south arterial.
  — CBS News, 22 Dec. 2017
• Cars could still travel on those crucial arterials as well as on Westlake, but not on the side streets in between.
  — Danny Westneat, The Seattle Times, 21 Mar. 2018
• This map from the Portland Bureau of Transportation shows all non-arterial streets.
  — Elliot Njus, OregonLive.com, 15 Jan. 2018
• The road is a county highway, and over the years the county began planning it as a major arterial through the western edge of Kane's urban corridor.
  — Steve Lord, Aurora Beacon-News, 1 June 2017
• The town feels like any Midwestern suburb that’s lost its center — sprawling arterials, strip malls, some low rise motels with neon signs.
  — Pam Mandel, Longreads, 5 June 2018
• Some of the drugs on the list have had only a handful of inquiries but Letairis, a drug sold by Gilead Sciences to treat a condition called pulmonary arterial hypertension, got 10 queries.
  — NBC News, 17 May 2018
• Previously, the closest playground was across a busy arterial and nearly a mile away.
  — Helen Wolt, Sun-Sentinel.com, 23 June 2017
• Both the neighborhood roads and the major arterials are full of potholes, cracks and spot repairs for problems where a total resurfacing should have been applied.
  — baltimoresun.com, 15 Oct. 2019
• That’s because all of Seattle’s central-city arterials are marked and usually have much more traffic.
  — Jessica Lee, The Seattle Times, 12 June 2017
• Dozens of wooden crosses lined Skyway Road, the main arterial into town, a handmade gift that commemorated each life lost in the fire from an artist in Chicago.
  — Caitlin Harrington, Outside Online, 6 June 2019
• The second would allow wineries on lots of more than five acres and with direct access to arterials, which includes Matthews Winery, to host events without a special-use permit.
  — Lynn Thompson, The Seattle Times, 8 Sep. 2017
• Haynes said the Better Naito analysis raises questions about how the city will handle changes to major arterials elsewhere.
  — Andrew Theen, OregonLive.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• By the 1990s, an arterial switch replaced the atrial switch, with seemingly better outcomes.
  — Tara Haelle, Washington Post, 4 June 2017
• The high-speed arterial couplets are great at moving large volumes of regional traffic.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 5 Mar. 2018
• Streams of fleeing evacuees, from the Florida Keys to Miami and farther north, were creeping north on the state’s two major north-south arterials, Interstates 75 and 95.
  — Alex Wigglesworth, latimes.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• San Francisco, for example, had the highest congestion rate (tied with Boston) on arterial and city streets during the peak commute hours, while New York holds the top spot during the daytime.
  — Kirsten Korosec, Fortune, 5 Feb. 2018
• The video shows Kidd riding over one of the street’s speed bumps, infrastructure designed to slow down cars and to dissuade drivers who typically use neighborhood streets to get around busier arterials.
  — Andrew Theen | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 13 Dec. 2019
• Principal arterials, freeways and expressways made up more than 36% of the total.
  — Stephen J. Beard, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2023
• Raiders fullback Napoleon McCallum tore three ligaments and suffered arterial and nerve damage in 1994 and never played again.
  — Profootballdoc, sandiegouniontribune.com, 30 Oct. 2017
• Currently, the average speed limit on arterial streets is between 35 to 45 mph.
  — Paulina Pineda, azcentral, 20 Nov. 2019
• Annand used his power as a City Commissioner and an influential member of the street committee to see that the main arterial road passed beneath his future home site.
  — Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 10 Feb. 2018
• Two-way traffic reopened on 23rd Avenue, a major arterial, early last year.
  — Michelle Baruchman, The Seattle Times, 11 Sep. 2018
• Engineers built its arterials to transport cars, and quickly.
  — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 11 May 2018
• The races occasionally draw up to 1,000 spectators and the racing participants have been known to attempt to block freeways and urban arterials like Marine Drive for their races.
  — oregonlive.com, 16 July 2019
• Traffic is typically less congested south of the district, so drivers might want to consider traveling south on a city arterial, like Collins Street, to I-20.
  — Dallas News, 9 Sep. 2022
• The train derailment Monday that killed three people had spilled cars onto the highway and closed the southbound lanes of Washington’s main north-south arterial during the busy holiday travel period.
  — Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2017
• The site also must have access to an arterial or higher classification road.
  — Colin Campbell, baltimoresun.com, 11 July 2018
• The events occasionally draw as many as 1,000 spectators, and race participants have been known to attempt to block freeways and urban arterials like Marine Drive.
  — oregonlive, 9 Sep. 2019
• The proposed speed limits are: 40 mph on arterials where there are low bicycle and pedestrian activity.
  — Paulina Pineda, azcentral, 20 Nov. 2019

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