How to Use draw blood in a Sentence
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The ball's impact did draw blood, which caused the game to be stopped.
—Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 14 Sep. 2021
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Dan hits himself repeatedly to draw blood, which drips on the floor.
—Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 June 2022
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The bleeding method requires the puncturing of skin to draw blood.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 4 Apr. 2025
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Doctors will elevate the wounded area and draw blood for tests.
—Anne Ewbank, Sacbee.com, 7 July 2026
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The leaves of the plant are sharp enough to draw blood, and the slip of a machete can lead to permanent injury.
—Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2021
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Ticks can attach to your skin and draw blood, possibly spreading diseases.
—Maria Masters, Health, 9 June 2024
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Doctors must draw blood samples from patients suspected to have the virus, which are sent off to labs that can test for the strain.
—Alexander Tin, CBS News, 25 Oct. 2022
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Those able to unearth flaws or even draw blood from the reigning champs warrant conversation.
—Joel Lorenzi, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
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This means cops couldn’t immediately draw blood to test for alcohol and drug use.
—David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 15 Jan. 2025
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For the study, researchers will draw blood and vaccinate participants twice, four weeks apart.
—Meredith Cohn, baltimoresun.com, 10 Aug. 2020
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But measuring blood glucose involves using a needle to draw blood.
—Chris Smith, BGR, 30 July 2021
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Nurses also can draw blood and quickly run several tests before a patient leaves.
—Sarah Swetlik | [email protected], al, 17 Nov. 2022
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Doctors also joined an artery and a vein in his arm creating a fistula that helped draw blood more easily.
—Alice Li, Washington Post, 14 June 2023
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Payton said officials might draw blood from a defendant to test their chromosomes.
—Will Langhorne, Arkansas Online, 28 Feb. 2023
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And once Norvell starts trusting Dupree to carry the Rams home, those punches are going to draw blood.
—Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 31 Aug. 2025
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Continetti poked the establishment to get its attention, not to draw blood.
—Timothy Shenk, The New Republic, 12 Apr. 2022
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Thriving in survival mode, the Freemans must draw blood to secure their future and preserve the legacy of their past.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 6 Mar. 2025
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To confirm a diagnosis, doctors typically draw blood and send it off to a lab for testing.
—Aria Bendix, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2023
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And some clinics are working with pharmacies that can draw blood and have standing orders for some medications.
—New York Times, 28 Oct. 2020
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But its barbs aren’t designed to draw blood so much as to nudge playfully at a knowing audience, like a saucy host at an awards ceremony.
—Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Sep. 2022
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Unlike mosquitoes, crane flies do not have a feeding apparatus designed to puncture skin and draw blood.
—Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 12 Mar. 2024
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Frances had spent her life in the medical field working as a phlebotomist, or healthcare professional trained to draw blood from patients.
—Howard Koplowitz | [email protected], al, 16 Dec. 2020
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Plasmapheresis involves inserting a needle or catheter into a vein in your arm or some other location to draw blood.
—Suchandrima Bhowmik, Health, 8 Aug. 2024
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The inflation and deflation of the balloon acts as a suctioning force to help draw blood flow out from the heart during its contraction phase.
—Christopher Lee, Verywell Health, 30 Oct. 2024
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The toys project Orbeez pellets, or similar water-absorbent polymer beads that can inflict pain, leave a welt or draw blood.
—cleveland, 21 July 2022
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Shortly after that, the scientists draw blood and later euthanize them.
—David Meyer, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2021
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Initially, a phlebotomist, a person who is trained to draw blood, will come to patients’ homes to collect the blood sample, Prenuvo said.
—Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 13 Feb. 2025
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New Jack was best known for a hardcore, violent style, frequently cutting himself and his opponent with a blade to draw blood.
—Houston Mitchell Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2021
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There’s a good deal of evidence that Maya kings would cut or pierce themselves, with bone awls, stone blades and even the spines of stingrays to draw blood as an offering to the gods.
—Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 29 Dec. 2020
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The device was surgically implanted and attached to a vein in her upper chest area in order for healthcare providers to draw blood and give treatments.
—Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 26 Mar. 2024
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