How to Use artery in a Sentence

artery

noun
  • He favors local side roads over major arteries.
  • An artery takes blood away from the heart.
    — Jason Haber, Sun Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2026
  • An aneurysm is a bulge in an artery in the brain.
    — Sohaib Imtiaz, Health, 25 Oct. 2025
  • For now, that vital artery has been cut.
    — David Nikel, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Then the riverbed snaked on, a dusty artery passing through green fields.
    — Ian James, AZCentral.com, 19 Apr. 2020
  • The emboli, blood clots that get wedged in a lung artery, were small.
    — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Oct. 2020
  • This type of injury can damage the artery and stretch the nerve.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2025
  • His wife, Robin Page, said the cause was a splenic artery aneurysm.
    — New York Times, 16 Jan. 2022
  • Blood pressure is the force that blood flow exerts against the artery walls.
    — Corey Whelan, Verywell Health, 1 Dec. 2024
  • State Street State Street is the city’s main artery.
    — Chantelle Kincy, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2026
  • In times of stress or exertion, the blood flow in one artery would cut off.
    — Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Jan. 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
  • Imagine your heart has one artery taking that lifeblood to the rest of your body.
    — Cecilia Vega, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Huge weight off the hepatic artery on that last one, can’t thank you enough.
    — Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz, 12 Dec. 2019
  • These are spots in the brain where the artery walls have become thick and hardened.
    — Cathy Nelson, Health, 7 May 2025
  • An artery in my lung had ruptured and that is what was causing the bleeding.
    — Kyle Eustice, SPIN, 12 Dec. 2023
  • The motel parking lots that line the town’s main artery were empty.
    — Sam Metz and Janie Har, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Served with French bread to soak up all that artery-clogging goodness.
    — Torrey Hart, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2026
  • And the long footbridge crossing that’s like an artery into the city.
    — Julia Sammut With Benjamin Kemper, Saveur, 3 July 2024
  • Police believe one of the wounds cut an artery, and the victim bled to death.
    — Theodore Parisienne, New York Daily News, 1 Aug. 2025
  • Low blood pressure is when the force exerted by blood on artery walls is low.
    — Colleen Doherty, Verywell Health, 16 Aug. 2025
  • The aorta is the main artery that carries blood away from the heart to the rest of the body and brain.
    — Dr. Jade Cobern, ABC News, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Your heart may be working overtime to push blood through the artery blockage.
    — Erica Sloan, SELF, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Those conditions have to do with artery blockages in the lungs, and deep blood clots.
    — Theresa Clift, Sacbee.com, 16 June 2026
  • Saldívar then pulled out her gun and shot the singer in the back, severing an artery.
    — Kelsie Gibson, PEOPLE, 31 Mar. 2026
  • This means that a crucial artery that directs blood to her heart isn’t getting the job done.
    — oregonlive, 26 Feb. 2022
  • An aorta is the large artery that carries the blood from the heart through the chest and torso.
    — Melissa Montoya, Peoplemag, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Aortic aneurysms occur in the large artery that carries blood from the heart to much of the body.
    — Lana Barhum, Verywell Health, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Apple also did a bypass to the artery going to the right arm.
    — Nicole Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
  • If the clot blocks the artery, this can deprive the heart muscle of blood and cause a heart attack.
    — Dr. Michael Daignault, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2022

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