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

High levels of cholesterol in the bloodstream can lead to hypercholesterolemia, a condition that damages arteries and raises the risk of heart disease.

From Science Daily • May 1, 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 ship, also linked to the Kremlin’s deep-sea unit, has crisscrossed the globe for a decade mapping vital arteries for the global economy that run along the sea floor, Western officials say.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

And for students there are sharks with the blood drained out and yellow and blue color substituted in veins and arteries, so that you may follow the systems with a scalpel.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck