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.
  • Two and a half months later, the young woman started producing enough of her own insulin to not need injections of the hormone anymore.
    Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Corticosteroid injections can help reduce pain for up to three months after the injection.
    Alex Yampolsky, Verywell Health, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Outside the sports world, physicians sometimes use sprays like ethyl chloride to numb an injection site before inserting a needle.
    Angela Yang, NBC News, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The most commonly reported adverse events were skin reactions at the injection site.
    Helen Branswell, STAT, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Another injection would likely cause them a day or two of unpleasant side effects, and expose them to a very small risk of heart inflammation.
    Benjamin Mazer, The Atlantic, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Side effects were mostly mild and included injection-site reactions (like bruising), headache, fatigue, and chills.
    Jolene Edgar, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Dec. 2022
  • State of play: Roberson was scheduled to be executed by lethal injection Thursday after two decades in prison.
    Sareen Habeshian, Axios, 18 Oct. 2024
  • He was transferred to the facility about a day before his 1994 execution by lethal injection.
    Marianne Mather, Chicago Tribune, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Ivey released a letter to the nine justices asking for a rule change in response to Alabama’s failure to carry out two recent executions by lethal injection.
    Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Cannon also said Cannon Beach is in discussions with three med spas that will offer hair, massage, sculpting and cosmetic injection services.
    Kimi Robinson, The Arizona Republic, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Doctors with large followings on social media touted Wegovy as groundbreaking, while users posted photos holding injection pens and shared their progress losing weight.
    Denise Roland, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • All of the wastewater will be disposed of through deep well injection.
    Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 3 Mar. 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
  • In one episode, some of the women bond at a med spa by getting Botox injections together.
    Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • The most common complaints were redness at the injection site and fatigue.
    Jen Christensen, CNN, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The other two were by lethal injection, which remains the state's primary method.
    CBS News, 17 Oct. 2024
  • He was scheduled to die by lethal injection at 6 p.m. local time at the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville.
    Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 18 Oct. 2024

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