How to Use blood poisoning in a Sentence

blood poisoning

noun
  • Bizarrely, these soldiers were less prone to blood poisoning and infections.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 17 Dec. 2010
  • One consequence of prolonged heat exposure can be a kind of blood poisoning.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Simpson wanted to work on sepsis, a blood poisoning caused by infections.
    — Andy Marso, kansascity, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Internal injuries caused by the beating and blood poisoning were listed as causes of death.
    — Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Infection set in, progressed to gangrene, and Daniels died from sepsis or blood poisoning.
    — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Dec. 2023
  • To cap it all, Elizabeth, the queen’s personal housemaid, died of blood poisoning.
    — Jonathan Miles, Town & Country, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The cause was severe blood poisoning and acute organ dysfunction brought on by salmonella.
    — Bernice Yeung, ProPublica, 29 Oct. 2021
  • The infection can lead to both meningitis and a serious infection of the bloodstream called sepsis, or blood poisoning.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The infection can lead to both meningitis and a serious infection of the bloodstream called septicemia, or blood poisoning.
    — Zenebou Sylla, CNN, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Mullane also got blood poisoning from an ingrown nail, so there were some extenuating circumstances.
    — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 29 May 2021
  • It is rumored that Queen Elizabeth died from blood poisoning as a result of an untreated tooth infection.
    — Nicole Spector /, NBC News, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Lewis was reportedly diagnosed with toxic shock syndrome, blood poisoning and flesh-eating disease.
    — Alexandria Hein, Fox News, 4 July 2018
  • That phone was long gone, as were the homes, each eventually discovered and destroyed; as was Wood’s soulmate, who died of blood poisoning resulting from her drug use.
    — Jennifer Egan, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
  • This can result in perforations, twisting and/or blockage of the intestines, infection, blood poisoning, and death.
    — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Jan. 2024
  • The state Department of Fish and Wildlife in March reminded agents to undergo blood poisoning checks.
    — Paige St. John, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2024
  • Swallowing more than one powerful magnet can lead the objects to attract each other inside the intestines, which can puncture holes inside the abdomen that may lead to blood poisoning.
    — Wilson Wong, NBC News, 19 Nov. 2020
  • When kids swallow more than one powerful magnet, the objects can attract each inside the intestines, boring holes into the abdomen that can lead to life-threatening blood poisoning.
    — Lindsey Tanner, The Seattle Times, 12 Apr. 2019
  • Swallowing more than one powerful magnet can lead the objects to attract each other inside the intestines, puncturing holes inside the abdomen that may lead to blood poisoning.
    — Wilson Wong, NBC News, 17 June 2021
  • Septicemia is the clinical name for blood poisoning by bacteria, according to Johns Hopkins Medicine.
    — Jared Goffinet and Ken Brown, The Enquirer, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Infection from vibrio vulnificus can result in gastrointestinal illness, wound infection, or blood poisoning.
    — Toby Meyjes, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Sepsis, also known as septicemia, is blood poisoning caused by bacteria entering the bloodstream, according to Johns Hopkins Medicine.
    — Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE.com, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Patients have presented with a variety of conditions ranging from eye infections to blood poisoning, often called sepsis, the CDC said.
    — Bloomberg News, oregonlive, 11 Feb. 2023
  • If the magnets are swallowed, children can potentially suffer perforations, twisting or a blockage of the intestines, infection, blood poisoning and death, the company said.
    — Saleen Martin, USA Today, 29 July 2025
  • Less fanciful hazards of vaccination were alleged to include tuberculosis, madness, blood poisoning, cancer and syphilis.
    — The Economist, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Vaccination could cause blood poisoning; this was not intuitive in the age before germ theory but is no surprise to us today, as cowpox pus was harvested under far from sterile conditions and often harboured farmyard bacteria.
    — The Economist, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Per Oxford Academic, their symptoms included chronic cough, fever, blood poisoning and respiratory failure.
    — Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Mora, at the University of Hawaii, described 27 different ways the body reacts to overheating, from kidney failure to blood poisoning when the gut lining disintegrates.
    — Aryn Baker, Time, 12 Sep. 2019
  • These unmonitored chemicals are so toxic California advised cannabis enforcement agents to wear hazmat suits and respirators during field inspections, and to undergo annual blood poisoning tests.
    — Paige St. John, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2024
  • In 1924, Calvin Coolidge’s namesake son blistered his right foot while playing tennis without socks and died of blood poisoning at 16, according to the historical association.
    — Bart Jansen, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
  • According to South Korean newswire Yonhap, one of the deceased was a 63-year-old nursing home resident with cerebrovascular disease, who died after showing symptoms of blood poisoning and pneumonia.
    — Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021

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