How to Use flesh and blood in a Sentence

flesh and blood

noun

• If the doors or windows blow in, your flesh and blood is no match.
  — Howard Cohen, miamiherald, 7 Sep. 2017
• But don’t worry that flesh and blood will not be given their due.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2018
• The vehicle for her message has been her own flesh and blood.
  — Danielle Pergament, Allure, 8 July 2022
• Her voice is exalted by that reach, the rush of stretching one’s limbs, flesh and blood high.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2022
• Tilda Swinton and the other actors are, of course, flesh and blood.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 14 Dec. 2022
• This is a shot that's been nailed by flesh and blood humans before, most notably Tiger Woods in 1993.
  — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 8 Feb. 2016
• Or rather, Reddit’s users—the service’s flesh and blood—are rising up against the company that runs the show.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 12 June 2023
• The other children had shed their reservations and had begun to see the boy as their flesh and blood.
  — Shashank Bengalistaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2019
• By the Editors How the flesh and blood of the brain is able to formulate a self-aware mind remains a mystery.
  — Diana Kwon, Scientific American, 13 Sep. 2022
• In one, the body of a man in camouflage uniform lies rigid in a snowy field, with mangled flesh and blood where his face used to be.
  — James Marson and Matthew Luxmoore, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2022
• The ad implies that Gosar’s politics are so harmful, even his own flesh and blood won’t vote for him.
  — Jewel Wicker, Teen Vogue, 26 Oct. 2018
• And Elvis himself remains a cipher, a symbol, more myth than flesh and blood.
  — New York Times, 23 June 2022
• This is men in flesh and blood engaging in a violent sport.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 9 Oct. 2019
• These are human beings, flesh and blood with feelings ...
  — Brian Witte, Star Tribune, 17 Sep. 2020
• George and Tammy’s story and the rest of the world is just living in it, for those six hours, but the rest of the cast worked to make the supporting players feel like flesh and blood.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 18 Dec. 2022
• How did Vazirdaftari made sure that Roya – whose hardships are often gender based – was flesh and blood?
  — Anna Tatarska, Variety, 6 Sep. 2022
• The film the men produced gave the murky myth shape: suddenly, Bigfoot was manifested in flesh and blood.
  — Leah Sottile, Outside Online, 5 July 2016
• Hard and soft ALife run the opposite problem of being too far removed from flesh and blood.
  — Shi En Kim, Scientific American, 6 Apr. 2023
• Here, Anne gets to be not just an iconic queen, but a flesh and blood human woman trying, and failing, to overcome the odds stacked against her.
  — Caroline Framke, Variety, 9 Dec. 2021
• That’s what’s interesting to me about these characters: They’re flesh and blood.
  — Jay Stowe, New York Times, 30 May 2018
• His beautiful women are less flesh and blood than a waltz of curlicues conveyed in a palette of greens, peach, and ocher — nature’s colors.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 11 Jan. 2020
• Incorporating animation with a flesh and blood Smalls, the video depicts the sights, sounds and smells of a rock icon trying to earn a bit of cash.
  — Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com, 3 Sep. 2019
• Some of that depends on technology, and some depends on flesh and blood humans.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 8 July 2022
• Redniss has made a career of giving flesh and blood to abstraction, of working, coaxing, and teasing it from the realm of the unsayable into the light.
  — Max Norman, The New Yorker, 23 July 2021
• The theater at its best does something that movies and TV and other forms of storytelling can’t do, which is to remind us of the flesh and blood, the humanity that’s in the room with you.
  — Allie Holloway, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 July 2021
• The Hebrew Bible is the most un-ethereal of holy books, focused on the mundane labors and frequent failures of flesh and blood human beings.
  — Rabbi Dan Fink, idahostatesman, 21 Apr. 2018
• Nowadays, the idea that this is the actual flesh and blood of Jesus Christ is not taken literally.
  — National Geographic, 19 Feb. 2017
• And yet, this shadow-Leggatt makes flesh and blood what earlier was a shadow-captain.
  — David Bahr, Forbes, 31 July 2022
• Catholic doctrine holds that the Eucharist, or the bread and wine consumed during communion, contains the literal flesh and blood of Christ.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 12 Oct. 2017
• For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
  — Jakub Rudnik, chicagotribune.com, 24 May 2018

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024