How to Use fresh blood in a Sentence

fresh blood

noun
  • There's fresh blood out there for her.
    — Meredith Wilshere, PEOPLE, 2 May 2026
  • Time to move on, time for some fresh blood.
    — Jordan Sigler, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Perhaps the time is right for fresh blood.
    — Phil Hay, New York Times, 19 May 2026
  • Beyond that, Jordan thinks fresh blood might be required.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2025
  • One of the roles of Le19M has been to draw fresh blood into the sector.
    — Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2025
  • For me, the fresh blood of Micronesia keeps that season higher.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 22 May 2026
  • There was a great mix of legacy franchises and fresh blood to experience.
    — George Yang, Space.com, 15 June 2026
  • Lipovsky and Stein, meanwhile, know a thing or two about bringing in fresh blood to long-in-the-tooth franchises.
    — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The dark brown didn’t wash out like bright hues in early cameras’ filters, and its viscosity and flow is eerily similar to a thick line of fresh blood.
    — Mark Hay, Popular Science, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Adia’s breakout as New Artist of the Year felt like a passing of the torch, proof that gospel isn’t short on fresh blood ready to spill new sound into old bones.
    — Shelby Stewart, Essence, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Polls show that Peruvians overwhelmingly want fresh blood in their politics, meaning candidates without links to the current congress.
    — Simeon Tegel, NPR, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Despite all this fresh blood and Cronenworth’s all-around utility, the Padres entered Tuesday ranked 15th in the majors in slugging percentage since the trade deadline.
    — Dennis Lin, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The discourse surrounding Norton’s reelection plans is part of a larger movement of younger Democrats crying for fresh blood in the lawmaker ranks after the 2024 election.
    — Rachel Schilke, The Washington Examiner, 13 Oct. 2025
  • It's been 13 years since that sequel, which shed nearly every major player from the original franchise's cast and crew and added fresh blood like Ashley Tisdale and Lindsay Lohan.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 4 June 2026
  • Handed the biggest of all hospital passes, Andy Howe — the deputy head of recruitment and Eddie’s nephew — has stepped into Paul Mitchell’s shoes and, in the final reckoning, re-sculpted a team which was crying out for fresh blood.
    — George Caulkin, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025
  • He's got fresh blood on his hands, too, having just murdered his mentor, Perry (Jamie McShane), after learning that Perry had killed his girlfriend Eryn (Margarita Levieva) over her own betrayals.
    — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Stranger Things’s Natalia Dyer and Catherine Zeta-Jones tested the power of a red lip—and showcased the strength in finding the exact right shade for you; in Dyer’s case, a fittingly fresh blood red, for Zeta-Jones, a darker cherry.
    — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 15 Nov. 2025
  • Patrick Horvath has turned his cuddly serial killer comic Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees into a veritable hit franchise for indie publisher IDW, and now the creator has invited some fresh blood into the bucolic town of Woodbrook.
    — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 12 June 2026

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