How to Use artery in a Sentence
artery
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His April shooting left him with two bullet holes in his thigh, an inch from an artery.
—Darcy Costello, Baltimore Sun, 1 Mar. 2024
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Surgeons go up into the veins, gaining access to the artery at the top of the leg.
—Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 22 Mar. 2024
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For example, the carotid artery is in the neck and the radial artery is in the wrist.
—Vincent Iannelli, Parents, 30 July 2024
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The easiest places to find a pulse are either the brachial artery (in your wrist) or the carotid artery (in your neck).
—Trisha Pasricha, Washington Post, 29 July 2024
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The doctor who operated on her told her parents the rope which cut into her leg stopped three millimeters away from an artery.
—Lori Riley, Hartford Courant, 13 July 2024
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These transactions are the blood vessels coursing through in the veins and arteries of the health system, keeping it alive.
—Seth Joseph, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
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Heart valves and arteries stiffened with age, which forced the heart to work harder and increased the likelihood of high blood pressure and heart attacks.
—Eli Saslow Erin Schaff Eli Saslow, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2024
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On Big Tree Road, a central artery near the stadium, signs and placards paid tribute to Hamlin.
—Adam Kilgore, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Jan. 2023
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The wreckage still blocks the main shipping channel for the Port of Baltimore and strangles a key economic artery to the region.
—Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2024
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The Brent Spence Bridge is a major artery for freight in the country.
—Jolene Almendarez, The Enquirer, 5 Jan. 2024
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The brachial artery, inside the elbow where the bicep meets the forearm.
—Maryal Miller Carter, USA TODAY, 19 July 2023
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In times of stress or exertion, the blood flow in one artery would cut off.
—Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Jan. 2023
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The brachial artery, inside the elbow where the bicep meets the forearm.
—Maryal Miller Carter, USA TODAY, 22 June 2024
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Riley, look at Daddy, says a man to a toddler in the artery.
—Heather Lanier, Longreads, 10 Jan. 2023
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And the long footbridge crossing that’s like an artery into the city.
—Julia Sammut With Benjamin Kemper, Saveur, 3 July 2024
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The shark punctured the kneecap and just missed a nearby artery, Borrego said.
—Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 9 May 2024
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Cary Street is Richmond's main artery of shops and restaurants.
—Paige Porter Fischer, Southern Living, 3 May 2024
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An artery in my lung had ruptured and that is what was causing the bleeding.
—Kyle Eustice, SPIN, 12 Dec. 2023
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One way this can happen is when an artery becomes blocked due to a blood clot.
—Cara Beth Lee, Verywell Health, 4 Jan. 2024
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Torres then ties the artery off, and sutures the incision closed.
—Eleanor Cummins, Popular Mechanics, 22 Feb. 2023
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AVMs are made up of arteries and veins, which can burst inside the brain.
—Alyssa Hui, Health, 12 Apr. 2023
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During surgery, a doctor nicked an artery, which was then stitched up.
—Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
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The river will be its arteries, flowing both to and from it.
—Deborah Johnson, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Mar. 2023
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On Beale Street, Mr. Nichols took in the bright lights of the city’s cultural artery, where blues and rock ’n’ roll spill out onto the streets at night.
—Eliza Fawcett, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
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The 10 freeway is a major artery in Los Angeles and the region.
—Phil Helsel, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2023
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An artery in his lung had ruptured, and doctors were unable to stop the bleeding.
—Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 15 Dec. 2023
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If an artery is blocked, a whole body part may turn blue, and unless the blood flow is quickly restored, the body part can die.
—Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 26 May 2023
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Then the wire comes out, and a catheter is fed through the sheath and guided up through the larger arteries into a blood vessel in the neck.
—Eva Holland, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2023
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At the point of muscle failure, the contractions stop, and the artery is no longer occluded.
—Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 11 July 2024
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Shrapnel from the second shell hit Mr. Dagan in the neck, severing an artery and killing him, his wife said.
—Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
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