main vein

Example Sentences

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I’m going to miss writing a story when, slogging through hours of rewrites, I’ve finally hit the main vein.

From Washington Post • May 7, 2021

And there are these little fragile blood vessels in the buttock area that are directly connected to the main vein going back to the heart called the vena cava.

From Fox News • Nov. 6, 2019

But people need to stay connected to the boldness, to the vision, and stay plugged in to the main vein of the dream.

From Washington Post • Feb. 19, 2015

The renal vein joins the inferior vena cava, the main vein that returns blood to the heart from the lower body.

From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013

Nay, further, these same miners, if no stringer or cross-vein intersects the main vein so that they can follow it in their workings, even cross-cut through the solid rock of the hangingwall or footwall.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius