How to Use gland in a Sentence

gland

noun

• Cat paws have scent glands that will mark the blanket as their own.
  — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Aug. 2023
• The cancerous tumor had spread from the gland up to Jake's ear.
  — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 9 June 2023
• The glands on your dog’s paws and its nose are called eccrine glands, and all mammals have these, too.
  — Bill Gifford, Men's Health, 12 June 2023
• Those glands are called lymph nodes, which swell in response to illness.
  — Maggie O'Neill, Health, 30 June 2023
• The tumor had spread through the thyroid gland, onto the carotid artery and into the tracheal rings.
  — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2024
• That's the work of sebaceous glands, also known as oil glands.
  — Dr. Roshini Raj, Health, 26 May 2023
• The thyroid is a gland located in the neck that helps control the body’s metabolic rate.
  — New York Times, 12 May 2021
• This occurs when the glands in the mouth do not produce enough saliva, leaving you feeling parched and thirsty.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
• The chef also knows not everybody leaps at the thought of thymus glands for dinner.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
• When their gland ducts were blocked, crazy ants had only a 48 percent survival rate.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 28 Mar. 2022
• These cancers develop from the gland cells in the stomach's mucosa.
  — Korin Miller, Health.com, 7 Oct. 2021
• However, when grabbed, the snakes will discharge a secretion from their anal gland, and some might strike.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
• Per Doctors If the cyst becomes infected and filled with pus, and forms an abscess, the gland will be tender, swollen, and red.
  — Women's Health, 26 June 2023
• Prostate Disorders The prostate is a small gland in the male reproductive tract that helps make semen.
  — Samantha Lauriello, Health, 25 Aug. 2023
• Seminal vesicle stones: These are small stones that form in the glands that produce semen.
  — Dr. Roshini Raj, Health, 1 June 2023
• The liquid the glands secrete is 99.5 percent water — its only function is to wet your skin.
  — Jeff Goodell, Time, 6 July 2023
• His adrenal glands, where cortisol is made, weren’t working at all, just like his thyroid gland.
  — New York Times, 8 Sep. 2021
• Some of these genes cause variations in the structure of a person's sebaceous glands.
  — Angela Palmer, Verywell Health, 17 Jan. 2024
• The patients’ cancer was confined to the prostate, a walnut-sized gland that’s part of the reproductive system.
  — Carla K. Johnson, Fortune Well, 12 Mar. 2023
• The body’s endocrine system are glands that produce hormones.
  — Katia Parks, Baltimore Sun, 13 June 2023
• These glands release an oily fluid that contains lipids and proteins.
  — Alexis Benveniste, Allure, 26 Sep. 2023
• These glands affect both the central nervous system and the endocrine system.
  — Cathy Cassata, Health, 12 Apr. 2023
• This man, instead, chose to take a medicine that interferes with the gland’s ability to make thyroid hormone.
  — New York Times, 12 May 2021
• Your thymus is a gland that produces T cells, which are very important to your immune system.
  — Bill Gifford, Scientific American, 31 July 2023
• As to the unknowns in the long run, there is the potential for more serious side effects involving the gall bladder and thyroid gland.
  — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 1 Feb. 2024
• A whole lot of sebaceous glands are concentrated on your nose.
  — Jenna Ryu, SELF, 8 Sep. 2023
• When alarmed, these animals lick these glands, transferring the toxins to their teeth, which are then used to attack predators.
  — USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2024
• The thymus gland is part of the immune system and churns out T-cells, which patrol the body and identify which cells are native to the body and which are outsiders that should be attacked.
  — NBC News, 8 Mar. 2022
• But many biologists refused to believe that the brain might produce hormones like a mere gland.
  — Nicholas Wade, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2024
• The prostate gland has an epithelial part where the gland cells make PSA and prostate-specific antigens; those epithelial cells or stem cells that regenerate the gland cells are the source of cancer.
  — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 8 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024