How to Use gland in a Sentence

gland

noun

• Deer have scent glands near the hock of each hind leg.
  — Maurice H. Decker, Outdoor Life, 17 Sep. 2025
• Hell, our glands might even be better for it.
  — Outside, 22 Nov. 2025
• Don’t cut through these glands and don’t touch them and then touch the meat.
  — Jack Hennessy, Outdoor Life, 23 Sep. 2026
• Cats have scent glands that release pheromones all over their body.
  — Meghan Holmes, Treehugger, 7 Aug. 2025
• Cat paws have scent glands that will mark the blanket as their own.
  — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Aug. 2023
• Take care not to touch the glands, or your hands will carry their taint to the meat.
  — Maurice H. Decker, Outdoor Life, 17 Sep. 2025
• Heat is the villain in the piece — heat and certain glands.
  — Maurice H. Decker, Outdoor Life, 17 Sep. 2025
• Warm or cold compresses may help ease gland swelling.
  — Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 5 Mar. 2026
• Those glands are called lymph nodes, which swell in response to illness.
  — Maggie O'Neill, Health, 30 June 2023
• This musk is emitted from two scent glands, one on either side of the vent.
  — Dr. C. E. Kuschel, Outdoor Life, 9 Apr. 2026
• To reduce the risk of death, the whole gland usually has got to go.
  — O. Rose Broderick, STAT, 21 Aug. 2026
• The test uses sound waves to look at the parotid and submandibular glands.
  — Julie Scott, Verywell Health, 15 Sep. 2026
• That's the work of sebaceous glands, also known as oil glands.
  — Dr. Roshini Raj, Health, 26 May 2023
• The glands on your dog’s paws and its nose are called eccrine glands, and all mammals have these, too.
  — Bill Gifford, Men's Health, 12 June 2023
• There are second chances and a second week that promises to test out the tear glands again.
  — Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
• So do secretions from a buck’s forehead gland.
  — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 16 Oct. 2025
• Their bellies are cream-white, their pectoral glands white and their vocal sacs black.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2025
• The cancerous tumor had spread from the gland up to Jake's ear.
  — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 9 June 2023
• Heat can cause the oil-producing glands in your scalp to kick into overdrive.
  — Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 20 May 2026
• Secondly, the mice had healthy thymus glands well into old age.
  — Mallory Locklear, Hartford Courant, 7 Mar. 2026
• These glands release an oily fluid that contains lipids and proteins.
  — Alexis Benveniste, Allure, 26 Sep. 2023
• Hormones and the glands that excrete them make up your body’s endocrine system.
  — Rachel Reiff Ellis, SELF, 23 Jan. 2026
• Cycling affects the tissues around the gland — not the gland itself.
  — Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt, CNN Money, 26 Dec. 2025
• Ask to see examples of their work—necks with glands treated as well as those with glands untouched.
  — Jolene Edgar, Allure, 14 May 2026
• Some plants secrete a sweet substance from nectaries, or nectar glands.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 7 Sep. 2025
• And the thymus gland, the producer of white blood cells, shrinks and weakens over time.
  — Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Flow Space, 30 Sep. 2025
• Next, there is the issue of tarsal glands (the dark patches on the rear legs of a buck, below the knee joint).
  — Jack Hennessy, Outdoor Life, 23 Sep. 2026
• But when the stool isn’t firm enough or fiber intake is low, the glands may not express completely.
  — Kasey Caminiti, USA Today, 5 Feb. 2026
• When their gland ducts were blocked, crazy ants had only a 48 percent survival rate.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 28 Mar. 2022
• These medicines may be less helpful if the glands have been damaged and can no longer produce much saliva.
  — Julie Scott, Verywell Health, 17 Sep. 2026