How to Use gland in a Sentence

gland

noun
  • Deer have scent glands near the hock of each hind leg.
    — Maurice H. Decker, Outdoor Life, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Hell, our glands might even be better for it.
    — Outside, 22 Nov. 2025
  • Cats have scent glands that release pheromones all over their body.
    — Meghan Holmes, Treehugger, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Cat paws have scent glands that will mark the blanket as their own.
    — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Take care not to touch the glands, or your hands will carry their taint to the meat.
    — Maurice H. Decker, Outdoor Life, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Heat is the villain in the piece — heat and certain glands.
    — Maurice H. Decker, Outdoor Life, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Warm or cold compresses may help ease gland swelling.
    — Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Those glands are called lymph nodes, which swell in response to illness.
    — Maggie O'Neill, Health, 30 June 2023
  • This musk is emitted from two scent glands, one on either side of the vent.
    — Dr. C. E. Kuschel, Outdoor Life, 9 Apr. 2026
  • That's the work of sebaceous glands, also known as oil glands.
    — Dr. Roshini Raj, Health, 26 May 2023
  • The glands on your dog’s paws and its nose are called eccrine glands, and all mammals have these, too.
    — Bill Gifford, Men's Health, 12 June 2023
  • There are second chances and a second week that promises to test out the tear glands again.
    — Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • So do secretions from a buck’s forehead gland.
    — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Their bellies are cream-white, their pectoral glands white and their vocal sacs black.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2025
  • The cancerous tumor had spread from the gland up to Jake's ear.
    — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 9 June 2023
  • Heat can cause the oil-producing glands in your scalp to kick into overdrive.
    — Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 20 May 2026
  • Secondly, the mice had healthy thymus glands well into old age.
    — Mallory Locklear, Hartford Courant, 7 Mar. 2026
  • These glands release an oily fluid that contains lipids and proteins.
    — Alexis Benveniste, Allure, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Hormones and the glands that excrete them make up your body’s endocrine system.
    — Rachel Reiff Ellis, SELF, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Cycling affects the tissues around the gland — not the gland itself.
    — Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt, CNN Money, 26 Dec. 2025
  • Ask to see examples of their work—necks with glands treated as well as those with glands untouched.
    — Jolene Edgar, Allure, 14 May 2026
  • Some plants secrete a sweet substance from nectaries, or nectar glands.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 7 Sep. 2025
  • And the thymus gland, the producer of white blood cells, shrinks and weakens over time.
    — Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Flow Space, 30 Sep. 2025
  • But when the stool isn’t firm enough or fiber intake is low, the glands may not express completely.
    — Kasey Caminiti, USA Today, 5 Feb. 2026
  • When their gland ducts were blocked, crazy ants had only a 48 percent survival rate.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 28 Mar. 2022
  • His adrenal glands, where cortisol is made, weren’t working at all, just like his thyroid gland.
    — New York Times, 8 Sep. 2021
  • The chef also knows not everybody leaps at the thought of thymus glands for dinner.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
  • The body’s endocrine system are glands that produce hormones.
    — Katia Parks, Baltimore Sun, 13 June 2023
  • Musk is obtained from the musk pod, a preputial gland in a pouch, or sac, under the skin of the abdomen of the male musk deer.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The tumor had spread through the thyroid gland, onto the carotid artery and into the tracheal rings.
    — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2024

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