How to Use tissue in a Sentence

tissue

noun
  • The drug can damage the body's tissues.
  • She wiped her nose with a tissue.
  • The cancer has spread to tissues near the prostate and the lymph nodes.
    Carrie Madormo, Health, 2 Aug. 2025
  • The heart has a hard time pumping blood to the body's tissues, and the body sends more blood back to the heart and brain.
    Carey Rossi, Health, 17 Mar. 2024
  • Keeping the light on 24/7 can stunt growth and plant tissue and cause the plant to die.
    Carrie Honaker, Southern Living, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The surgery was a skin graft and tissue transplant from her arm.
    Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE.com, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Keep tissues in the car and house so kids can use them to blow their noses and rub their eyes.
    Kristi Pahr, Parents, 6 Dec. 2023
  • The flea bite had also caused tissue death in both his hands and feet.
    Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 22 July 2023
  • These last couple of episodes the tissue box came in handy.
    Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 15 May 2024
  • Doctors sawed off part of the bone, smoothed and flattened the rest and closed the wound with skin and soft tissue.
    Michael Collins, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Watch the first trailer above now — but make sure to grab some tissues first.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 16 May 2024
  • The heads and faces of these four had also a good deal of soft tissue damage.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 31 Mar. 2022
  • The deep-plane facelift also leaves the tissue that connects the face and neck muscles to the skin intact.
    Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Scar tissue can form around them, making the area feel hard.
    Lois K. Solomon, sun-sentinel.com, 1 July 2021
  • The carpal tunnel is a narrow conduit in the wrist made up of small bones and soft tissues.
    Benjamin Plackett, Discover Magazine, 27 Jan. 2024
  • His blood type did not match the blood found on Bobbie Jo's glove and the nearby tissue.
    CBS News, 19 Nov. 2022
  • The bottle was found in the bedroom with tissue fragments and DNA on it.
    NBC News, 23 Sep. 2021
  • With a tissue gown on, the area between my chest and waist are not exposed to the doctor’s view.
    Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 13 Oct. 2022
  • The first gene was already known to play an important role in the growth of heart tissue.
    Eric Boodman, STAT, 18 Feb. 2022
  • The team discovered that the stiff tissue of a cownose ray’s tail was pockmarked with holes.
    Jack Tamisiea, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
  • And not just throw them out in the middle of the forest, but the man built tents that had four-ply washroom tissue!
    Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Or just smash them with a flyswatter and clean up with a tissue.
    Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Cancer cells are present in the lining of the airways but have not spread deeper in the lung tissue.
    Carrie Madormo, Rn, Health, 13 Aug. 2024
  • For the new paper, the researchers turned to a piece of brain tissue from a person with epilepsy.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 May 2024
  • Itching to bring along a hand cream, pack of tissues, or smart reader?
    Nneya Richards, Travel + Leisure, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Say, for instance, that the virus comes into contact with the tissue that lines the inside of your nose.
    Sumathi Reddy, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2022
  • If the tissue is frozen quickly, ice crystals burst cells from the inside out.
    Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 27 Dec. 2023
  • When the eggs hatch, maggots emerge, which then feast on healthy tissue, according to the CDC.
    Dominique Mosbergen, Time, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Top surgery refers to the procedure to remove breast or chest tissue.
    Larry Madowo, CNN, 29 June 2023
  • Else-Marie’s 43-year-old husband, Arne, suffered from scarring of his heart tissue due to a viral infection.
    IEEE Spectrum, 28 Aug. 2025

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