flesh and blood

Example Sentences

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We create them even as we ignore that they’re flesh and blood just like us.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

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

Often, it's the first time a medical student works with real flesh and blood - an experience that can't be replicated from a textbook.

From BBC • Aug. 30, 2025

First, the threats to the new evangelization are not of flesh and blood.

From Slate • Sep. 23, 2024

“You’re his flesh and blood, and even if he has another family now, he still loves you.”

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago