How to Use flesh and blood in a Sentence

flesh and blood

noun
  • How could my child, my flesh and blood, avert his gaze from them?
    — Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2025
  • If the doors or windows blow in, your flesh and blood is no match.
    — Howard Cohen, miamiherald, 7 Sep. 2017
  • But don’t worry that flesh and blood will not be given their due.
    — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2018
  • The vehicle for her message has been her own flesh and blood.
    — Danielle Pergament, Allure, 8 July 2022
  • Her voice is exalted by that reach, the rush of stretching one’s limbs, flesh and blood high.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2022
  • New technology comes from dreamers, but their sheep need to be flesh and blood.
    — WIRED, 3 Nov. 2023
  • An opponent that feels no pain or fear, and who is immune to gunfire, is not like one made of flesh and blood.
    — David Hambling, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
  • The other children had shed their reservations and had begun to see the boy as their flesh and blood.
    — Shashank Bengalistaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2019
  • And Elvis himself remains a cipher, a symbol, more myth than flesh and blood.
    — New York Times, 23 June 2022
  • Tilda Swinton and the other actors are, of course, flesh and blood.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 14 Dec. 2022
  • The ad implies that Gosar’s politics are so harmful, even his own flesh and blood won’t vote for him.
    — Jewel Wicker, Teen Vogue, 26 Oct. 2018
  • Some of that depends on technology, and some depends on flesh and blood humans.
    — William Thornton | [email protected], al, 8 July 2022
  • And are the flesh and blood members of Kiss really done playing concerts?
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 3 Dec. 2023
  • But there was also a more visceral reason, involving flesh and blood.
    — Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 27 Dec. 2017
  • Players want games made by human artists with code that’s crafted with flesh and blood, and that’s reflected in the best games of the year.
    — Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 29 Dec. 2025
  • How did Vazirdaftari made sure that Roya – whose hardships are often gender based – was flesh and blood?
    — Anna Tatarska, Variety, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Or rather, Reddit’s users—the service’s flesh and blood—are rising up against the company that runs the show.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 12 June 2023
  • Hard and dangerous work, men of flesh and blood assembling massive objects over a river.
    — Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Those who consider Mickelson hip are not limited to his flesh and blood.
    — Karen Crouse, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2017
  • Too much reduction, and the flesh and blood turn into billboards and are trivialized.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 10 Aug. 2019
  • And yet, this shadow-Leggatt makes flesh and blood what earlier was a shadow-captain.
    — David Bahr, Forbes, 31 July 2022
  • His beautiful women are less flesh and blood than a waltz of curlicues conveyed in a palette of greens, peach, and ocher — nature’s colors.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 11 Jan. 2020
  • Hard and soft ALife run the opposite problem of being too far removed from flesh and blood.
    — Shi En Kim, Scientific American, 6 Apr. 2023
  • By the Editors How the flesh and blood of the brain is able to formulate a self-aware mind remains a mystery.
    — Diana Kwon, Scientific American, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Here, Anne gets to be not just an iconic queen, but a flesh and blood human woman trying, and failing, to overcome the odds stacked against her.
    — Caroline Framke, Variety, 9 Dec. 2021
  • This is a shot that's been nailed by flesh and blood humans before, most notably Tiger Woods in 1993.
    — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 8 Feb. 2016
  • In the classroom or computer lab, students call up the online lessons under the supervision of a flesh and blood teacher.
    — Mará Rose Williams, kansascity, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Here are a handful of stars who put their money — or their literal flesh and blood — where their heart is to make a grand statement on the romantic holiday.
    — Diane J. Cho, Peoplemag, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Although flesh and blood, Harari is Silicon Valley’s ideal of what a chatbot should be.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Redniss has made a career of giving flesh and blood to abstraction, of working, coaxing, and teasing it from the realm of the unsayable into the light.
    — Max Norman, The New Yorker, 23 July 2021

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