How to Use spleen in a Sentence

spleen

noun

• The force of the fall crushed John's spleen and cut his feet to shreds.
  — Meg Kissinger, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2021
• The prions also sweep through lymph nodes and the spleen.
  — Carl Zimmer, The Seattle Times, 30 June 2017
• Macrophages have even been found to aid in the recycling of iron in the spleen and liver.
  — Quanta Magazine, 11 Feb. 2020
• Alexander Pushkin was in a state of anguish and spleen.
  — The Economist, 6 June 2020
• The bacterium was found in the boy's brain, lung, liver, and spleen.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 10 Aug. 2022
• The spleen nearly touches the curvature of the stomach and a section of the colon.
  — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2019
• His spleen was ruptured and his pelvis broken in five places.
  — Town & Country, 1 Oct. 2022
• Cam nails it with a MacGyver flourish, closing the wound with her hair clip when the spleen bursts.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2022
• Their lymph nodes were enlarged, as were their spleens, but the men appeared to be free of disease.
  — Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2018
• The lymph system includes the lymph nodes as well as bone marrow, the spleen, and the thymus gland, the Mayo Clinic says.
  — Sarah Jacoby, SELF, 20 Oct. 2020
• Kelly was told his spleen would have to be removed if the bleeding didn't stop.
  — Charmaine Patterson, PEOPLE.com, 29 Mar. 2022
• The man can't get from a subject to a verb without removing a chunk of his own spleen.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 22 May 2015
• The bullet, his father said, chipped a piece of his spine and stopped between his spleen and lung on his left side.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 14 Dec. 2021
• The crash broke his neck, ruptured his diaphragm and shredded his spleen.
  — Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2019
• Lymph nodes around both the spleen and liver were also enlarged.
  — Amitha Kalaichandran, Discover Magazine, 9 Aug. 2020
• This enables them to slip through the membranes of cells in places where HIV tends to hide, like the liver, lymph tissue, and spleen.
  — Alice Park, Time, 2 July 2019
• The bullet went through her chest, shredded the bottom of her lung, fractured her ribs and scraped her spleen.
  — Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Apr. 2022
• Both his spleen and gallbladder were removed, as well as part of his colon.
  — Kathleen McKenna, BostonGlobe.com, 28 May 2018
• The cause was a ruptured spleen and pneumonia, said a son, Chris Garnett.
  — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2018
• For raw spleen, John B. could match crossedness for crossedness.
  — David Wright Faladé, The New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2020
• Borseti was rushed to the hospital, where doctors removed his spleen and saved his life.
  — Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2022
• Watson was able to get up again and had almost made it out the door when Al-Shamrani returned a third time and shot him in the spleen.
  — al, 31 May 2021
• A bull slammed him against a wall, broke all his ribs on both sides, punctured both his lungs, and ruptured his spleen and liver.
  — Audrey Dutton, idahostatesman, 11 July 2017
• These cells adhere to the walls of the veins and arteries, instead of being swept into the spleen, to be destroyed.
  — Donald G. McNeil Jr., Star Tribune, 14 Nov. 2020
• Minnesota wildlife researchers have a thing for deer spleens this fall.
  — Dave Orrick, Twin Cities, 5 Nov. 2019
• Their spleen stores RBCs, and the researchers found that to eject more into the bloodstream, the organ contracts to weigh 41 percent less.
  — Priyanka Runwal, Scientific American, 30 Mar. 2020
• Samples from his spleen have been sent for further testing, the statement said.
  — Adam Sennott, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2023
• Piazza died the next morning from a fractured skull and a ruptured spleen.
  — Cleve R. Wootson Jr. and Susan Svrluga, Washington Post, 12 June 2017
• Jim: Maybe the best-case scenario for Democrats is that Trump, overconfident from his current surge, starts venting his spleen and seeming even more unhinged.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 9 July 2024
• LeBlanc had her spleen removed in her 20s after an infection and her immune system was compromised from a prior illness which put her at high risk.
  — Allison Aubrey, NPR, 10 June 2024

Last Updated: 14 Oct 2024