How to Use artery in a Sentence

artery

noun

• He favors local side roads over major arteries.
• The Brent Spence Bridge is a major artery for freight in the country.
  — Jolene Almendarez, The Enquirer, 5 Jan. 2024
• The brachial artery, inside the elbow where the bicep meets the forearm.
  — Maryal Miller Carter, USA TODAY, 19 July 2023
• In times of stress or exertion, the blood flow in one artery would cut off.
  — Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Jan. 2023
• Riley, look at Daddy, says a man to a toddler in the artery.
  — Heather Lanier, Longreads, 10 Jan. 2023
• An artery in my lung had ruptured and that is what was causing the bleeding.
  — Kyle Eustice, SPIN, 12 Dec. 2023
• One way this can happen is when an artery becomes blocked due to a blood clot.
  — Cara Beth Lee, Verywell Health, 4 Jan. 2024
• Torres then ties the artery off, and sutures the incision closed.
  — Eleanor Cummins, Popular Mechanics, 22 Feb. 2023
• AVMs are made up of arteries and veins, which can burst inside the brain.
  — Alyssa Hui, Health, 12 Apr. 2023
• During surgery, a doctor nicked an artery, which was then stitched up.
  — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• The river will be its arteries, flowing both to and from it.
  — Deborah Johnson, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Mar. 2023
• On Beale Street, Mr. Nichols took in the bright lights of the city’s cultural artery, where blues and rock ’n’ roll spill out onto the streets at night.
  — Eliza Fawcett, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
• The 10 freeway is a major artery in Los Angeles and the region.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2023
• An artery in his lung had ruptured, and doctors were unable to stop the bleeding.
  — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 15 Dec. 2023
• If an artery is blocked, a whole body part may turn blue, and unless the blood flow is quickly restored, the body part can die.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 26 May 2023
• Then the wire comes out, and a catheter is fed through the sheath and guided up through the larger arteries into a blood vessel in the neck.
  — Eva Holland, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2023
• Shrapnel from the second shell hit Mr. Dagan in the neck, severing an artery and killing him, his wife said.
  — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• The patients underwent carotid endarterectomies, a procedure in which the artery is opened and the plaque is cleaned out.
  — Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2024
• Carlson said Huss’ facial artery had been severed but not his carotid artery.
  — Lori Riley, Hartford Courant, 17 Jan. 2023
• The Oat Berry Whole grains, antioxidants, and good fats deliver an artery scrub-and-lube.
  — Paul Kita, Men's Health, 18 Aug. 2023
• She was diagnosed with May-Thurner syndrome, which causes blood clots in the leg due to pelvic artery swelling.
  — Kinsey Crowley, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2024
• The plateau sits above steep canyons and arroyos that plummet to the valley floor and the Rio Grande, New Mexico's primary artery.
  — Abe Streep, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
• The damage from the fire forced the indefinite closure of a stretch of Interstate 10, a major artery in the region.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2023
• Rene Carranza, 20, had been dancing with his 18-year-old wife when a bullet pierced an artery in his thigh.
  — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2023
• Grant received an arterial graft, taking a vein out of his left leg to give him a new popliteal artery in his right.
  — Stephen Borelli, USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2023
• The Alaska Railroad's main artery stretches 470 miles, from Seward in the south to Fairbanks in the state’s interior.
  — Jenna Kunze, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Mar. 2023
• In January, my husband, Chuck, underwent roughly four hours of open-heart surgery to fix a leaky valve and clogged artery.
  — Beth Decarbo, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2023
• Systolic — the top number in a blood pressure reading — indicates the amount of pressure in the arteries, when the heart contracts and pumps blood through the body.
  — Linda Carroll, NBC News, 12 Feb. 2024
• Police used a water cannon to clear protesters who blocked a main artery leading to Jerusalem.
  — Ilan Ben Zion, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 July 2023
• Laura knows customers who slip three between those oversize buns, for a meal that’s hard to handle and hard on the arteries.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024