arteries
Example Sentences
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A blood-red tree descends, its skeletal branches and ropy roots suggesting veins and arteries.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026
Get on the freeway and you understand the whole body of the city at once: the arteries, the pulse, the scale of the thing.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026
The depth of the scarring from this conflict, on gas supply, and on control of one of the world's key economic arteries, remains an open question.
From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026
Threatened arteries force shippers into lengthy, costly detours that ultimately hit consumers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026
That was why Desdemona had the despair and fatigue of a person of ninety along with the arteries of a fifty-year-old.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
