How to Use white cell in a Sentence

white cell

noun

• The Greenland shark has no bone marrow, and no white cells.
  — David Cox /, NBC News, 23 Oct. 2017
• T cells are the white cells that help the immune system fight off illness.
  — Julie Gallant, Ramona Sentinel, 12 June 2018
• The red team was ready to begin shooting down the V-22s when Van Riper’s chief of staff received a message from the white cell.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 3 Jan. 2020
• But then, day by day, as the ritual progressed, and fewer white cells were left, the stuff grew clear.
  — Eric Boodman, STAT, 6 Dec. 2019
• There are two forms of fat cells, brown cells and white cells, and each plays a different role in our metabolism.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 24 June 2019
• Red cells, white cells or platelets were at critically low levels.
  — Alex Harrison, Cincinnati.com, 23 Oct. 2019
• By then, Kelly’s white cell count and lactic acid (both markers for infection) were normal.
  — Tony Dajer, Discover Magazine, 11 Feb. 2020
• The epitopes flagged the bacteria, triggering white cells and othe immune fighters to attack.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 6 July 2018
• New on Friday was that the field was down to 19 as King Fury scratched due to a fever and elevated white cell count, which usually indicates an infection.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2021
• And blood work showed leucocytosis — his white cells were high, which is most commonly the result of infection.
  — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 12 July 2019
• While brown cells help generate heat, white cells are responsible for the storage of fat -- or, energy -- ready for release as needed.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 24 June 2019
• In this cancer, a type of white cell called a plasma cell creates abnormal fibers that can break down and form the characteristic saw-toothed fibers of amyloidosis.
  — New York Times, 28 July 2021
• This is a doctor whose patients are virtually all immunocompromised, since most cancer drugs wipe out our white cell count.
  — Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2020
• Unfortunately, low white cell counts can sometimes indicate a severe bone marrow problem, so your friend does need to get an evaluation if the repeat test still shows a very low count.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 29 Nov. 2022
• In early August, after a routine blood test found her white cell count plummeting, she was taken by ambulance to Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn for a blood transfusion.
  — Andrew Jacobs, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2019
• His doctors upped the immune-suppressing medicines and started something called photopheresis, in which blood is routed out of the body, through a type of light that kills off the misdirected white cells, then back into circulation.
  — Lisa Sanders, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2020
• Young-blood transfusions typically involve plasma, the fluid part of blood packed with signaling proteins and other molecules but no red or white cells.
  — Rebecca Robbins, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2019
• The procedure involves drawing the patient's own blood, removing its red and white cells, leaving behind plasma full of platelets and growth factors known to regenerate different types of tissue.
  — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 31 Mar. 2023
• Spinal taps revealed high white cell counts in the cerebrospinal fluid—usually a harbinger of severe infection—but bacterial and viral cultures grew nothing.
  — Tony Dajer, Discover Magazine, 2 Aug. 2011

Last Updated: 1 Dec 2024