How to Use bone marrow in a Sentence

bone marrow

noun
  • Leukemia is a type of blood cancer that starts in the bone marrow.
    — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2023
  • The duck and bone marrow are standouts.
    — Lauren Schuster, Miami Herald, 22 Apr. 2026
  • The duck and bone marrow are standouts — book ahead.
    — Lauren Schuster, Sacbee.com, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Those cells, from the bone marrow, produce red and white blood cells.
    — Julie Washington, cleveland, 16 June 2021
  • The cause was acute myeloid leukemia, a rare cancer of the blood and bone marrow.
    — Jay Stahl, USA Today, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Leukemia is a type of cancer that affects the blood and bone marrow.
    — NBC News, 6 July 2019
  • The cancer was in his bone marrow and had spread throughout his body.
    — Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 12 Jan. 2020
  • Day in and day out, the bone marrow produces billions of cells.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 19 Nov. 2025
  • Leukemia is a type of blood cancer that changes how bone marrow functions.
    — Barbara Brody, Health.com, 31 Jan. 2022
  • That wasn’t the case with the stem cells isolated from the bone marrow.
    — Quanta Magazine, 29 Aug. 2018
  • In polycythemia vera, the bone marrow makes too much red blood cells.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Roasted bone marrow is cooled, carved from the bone and served as nigiri.
    — Jenn Harriscolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Don’t miss the bone marrow with bacon jam or the fries cooked in beef tallow.
    — Kate Washington, sacbee, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Fifteen years ago, a bone marrow donor gave her a second chance.
    — Jasmine Arenas, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Wait about a year while stem cells with the good genes multiply in the bone marrow.
    — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2017
  • The best cure, doctors told them, would be a bone marrow transplant.
    — Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 11 Mar. 2026
  • In most cases, leukemia starts in the bone marrow and then spreads through the bloodstream.
    — Carrie Madormo, Rn, Health, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Ross said, adding that her son, who was seven at the time, was the only bone marrow match.
    — Steve Smith, Courant Community, 14 Mar. 2018
  • One is strontium-90, which can cause cancer in bones and bone marrow, as well as leukemia.
    — Hart Rapaport, Scientific American, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Acute myeloid leukemia is an aggressive cancer of the bone marrow and the blood.
    — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Benzene has also been linked to leukemia, a cancer of the blood and bone marrow.
    — Korin Miller, Health.com, 3 Dec. 2021
  • The patient’s own plasma and bone marrow are used to aid healing.
    — Trihealth, Cincinnati.com, 10 July 2018
  • If that doesn’t work, a stem cell or bone marrow transplant is the only option.
    — oregonlive, 17 Apr. 2021
  • Some clinics isolate stem cells from a patient’s fat or bone marrow.
    — Phoebe Quinton, AJC.com, 15 June 2026
  • Red bone marrow is the spongy tissue inside bones that produces all types of blood cells.
    — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Dec. 2025
  • Leukemia begins in the bone marrow, the tissue inside your bones where blood cells are made.
    — Kaley Fedko, CBS News, 11 June 2026
  • Leukemia is a type of blood cancer that begins in the bone marrow, where the blood cells are produced.
    — Carrie Madormo, Rn, Health, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Platelets are tiny, golden-colored cells made in the bone marrow, which help to stop bleeding.
    — Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 26 Apr. 2021
  • By 2010, though, about half of his bone marrow cells were cancer cells.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Mikee needs a bone marrow transplant, but no one in his family is a match.
    — Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 7 July 2026

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