How to Use blood clot in a Sentence

blood clot

noun
  • What does a blood clot feel like?
    — Daryl Austin, USA Today, 5 Aug. 2025
  • This is when a blood clot travels to the lungs.
    — Mark Gurarie, Health, 22 Aug. 2025
  • If that blood clot returns, that could be it for him.
    — Jared Weiss, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Sometimes the plaque can break open, which can cause a blood clot.
    — Lauryn Overhultz , Larry Fink, FOXNews.com, 19 Mar. 2026
  • The cause of death was reported as a blood clot in her lungs.
    — Samantha Drake, Country Living, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Ankle pain can be caused by a blood clot anywhere in the leg.
    — Heather Jones, Verywell Health, 16 Sep. 2024
  • This wire mesh, placed inside the catheter, retrieves the blood clot.
    — Alyssa Hui, Health, 12 Apr. 2023
  • There, scans showed that the cancer had caused a giant blood clot in her lungs.
    — Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Nov. 2022
  • People with lymphoma might not make enough platelets, which help your blood clot.
    — Barbara Brody, Health, 26 Feb. 2023
  • Mills said doctors told him the episode was caused by a blood clot that briefly blocked part of his heart.
    — Nora O'Neill, Charlotte Observer, 4 Dec. 2025
  • She was hospitalized and died the next day of a blood clot in the lungs.
    — Mike Stobbe, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Yep, add increasing blood clot risk to the long list of reasons not to smoke.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Her life would be stopped up, as if a blood clot had blocked the passage of blood from her heart to her body.
    — Tessa Hadley, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
  • Wembanyama bounced back from a blood clot that cost him the back half of last season.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 17 May 2026
  • He was diagnosed with a blood clot on one of his lungs and was ruled for the season.
    — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Two weeks later, Lillard was sidelined with a blood clot in his leg.
    — Brian Sampson, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Just weeks after turning in an early rough draft, that blood clot near my heart stopped me cold in my tracks.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Hartman missed the season opener while dealing with a blood clot.
    — Matt Murschel, Orlando Sentinel, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The official cause of death was a blood clot that traveled from his leg to his lung, the release states.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Fryer stayed overnight at the hospital as Tatum's team pulled out the blood clot from his lung.
    — The Enquirer, 9 May 2023
  • And that was basically a stent going up into the brain to pull out a blood clot.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Hailey Bieber is ready to share her story about suffering a blood clot.
    — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Apr. 2022
  • This is when a blood clot travels to the brain and interrupts blood flow and deprives the brain of oxygen.
    — Laura Hensley, Verywell Health, 31 Aug. 2023
  • At that time, Wheeler had surgery to remove a blood clot near his throwing shoulder.
    — Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
  • The blood clot itself that forms in one part of the body, breaks off and then travels elsewhere is called an embolus.
    — Daryl Perry, USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2022
  • That blood clot could break loose and travel to your lungs, causing a pulmonary embolism, which can be fatal.
    — Angela Haupt, Time, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Muscle strains, pneumonia, a blood clot in the lungs, and heart issues can all cause chest pain while breathing.
    — Sarah Jividen, Health, 18 July 2024
  • Each chatbot correctly diagnosed a blood clot in the lungs.
    — Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Babies need vitamin K to help their blood clot, but they aren’t born with enough of it in their system.
    — Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 18 May 2026
  • This type of test is often used to locate a blood clot in the lungs based on your symptoms and the results of other tests.
    — Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 25 Dec. 2024

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