flesh and blood
Example Sentences
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Does consciousness require flesh and blood to exist?
From Science Daily ● Jun. 24, 2026
“Because it is flesh and blood and what is more important than life.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
To its credit, “Kissinger” quotes flesh and blood humans recounting some of the horrors Nixon and Kissinger’s policies visited on other nations, such as Cambodia and Bangladesh.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2025
Dude No. 1 will always be Brady, a sixth-round pick now immortalized outside Gillette Stadium with a behemoth bronze statue that’s probably only a tick slower in the 40 than the flesh and blood original.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025
The reasons for that are complicated, and Tony gave them flesh and blood by befriending some Mexican kitchen workers at a restaurant owned by an earlier, successful immigrant from Greece.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
