How to Use injection in a Sentence

injection

noun
  • The medicine cannot be taken orally; it must be given by injection.
  • The struggling company needed an injection of cash.
  • All of the wastewater will be disposed of through deep well injection.
    Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The most common effect in this category was pain at the injection site.
    Geetika Gupta, Verywell Health, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The typical starting injection dose is 2.5 mg once a week.
    Karen Berger, Pharmd, Verywell Health, 13 Aug. 2024
  • If insurance does not cover these monthly injections, the cost could be nearly $800 a month.
    Joe Graedon, M.s., and Teresa Graedon, Ph.d., oregonlive, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The medications — taken weekly by injection in the thigh, stomach or arm — are brand names for semaglutide, which works in the brain to impact satiety.
    Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Laser hair removal, chemical peels and Botox injections were among the most frequent minor enhancements.
    Kim Bojórquez, Axios, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Gary Green, 51, received a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville.
    Juan A. Lozano and Michael Graczyk, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Mar. 2023
  • When the 25-year-old returned three days later, still bleeding, doctors finally agreed to give her an injection to end the pregnancy.
    Amanda Seitz, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Harm reduction clinics need to be just as widespread to expand and normalize programs such as safe injection sites and drug-checking resources. 4.
    Evan Nison, Rolling Stone, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Thanks to the injection site on Sam's neck, a cement block that held down the accelerator, and part of a medicine vial, the team's off to investigate a murder.
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Epinephrine had previously only been available for patients as an injection like Epipen.
    Kira Caspers, The Arizona Republic, 10 Aug. 2024
  • Another offer allows the uninsured to buy the Soliqua injection for as little as $99 per box of pens, for up to two boxes of pens for a 30-day supply.
    Tami Luhby, CNN, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Malkovich adds an injection of prestige to the project.
    Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 May 2024
  • The second week of injections was when things started to change.
    Paige Stables, Allure, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Still, there are likely to be many patients who are turned off by the idea of injections.
    Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 1 June 2023
  • None of the 2,134 women taking the twice-a-year injection contracted the virus.
    Meghana Keshavan, STAT, 21 June 2024
  • If an injection is painful, apply pressure to the site for a few seconds, but do not rub it.
    Barbie Cervoni, Rd, Verywell Health, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Such injections are common and only barred by HISA in the two weeks before a race.
    Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 16 May 2024
  • After the water cools off the equipment, it gets pushed deep down below the ground via injection wells.
    Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 2 Feb. 2024
  • None of it matters without the injection of fire that Tina Turner brings.
    Lars Brandle, Billboard, 25 May 2023
  • Why should a once-a-week injection produce much more weight loss than a once-a-day injection?
    Gina Kolata, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2023
  • William Speer, 49, is set to receive a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville.
    CBS News, 26 Oct. 2023
  • There is a version of a drug like this that can be taken via pill, but [most versions are] a weekly injection.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2023
  • The facility got oxygen injections, and the team had some food supplies stored ahead of time—cheating in the view of some, but who wants to die in a glass house?
    Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 10 July 2023
  • Even Botox injections done by a professional—and with the proper drug—have their risks.
    Simmone Shah, TIME, 22 Apr. 2024
  • Narcan is the brand name of naloxone, which is administered as an injection and, as in the case of Narcan, as a nasal spray.
    Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2023
  • From injection to implantation, one round of IVF takes four to eight weeks.
    Spencer Goidel, The Conversation, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Bryan Ortiz quit a job as a paramedic to help people at a safe injection site for drugs like fentanyl and heroin.
    Sharon Otterman, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023

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