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 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
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
Upon the creature’s back were wings made from soiled white tarpaulin or hospital curtains, melted onto the flesh and veined with throbbing arteries.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
