How to Use vein in a Sentence

vein

1 of 2 noun
  • The first of which is in this vein.
    — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 11 June 2026
  • Adams goes on in this vein for some time.
    — Molly Ball, Time, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Very much in the vein of Shogun.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • All that trauma is in her veins.
    — Kennedy French, Variety, 18 Feb. 2026
  • But the ice in his veins remained.
    — Olivia Sayer, AJC.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • The veins in his glans protrude.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
  • So why is life so dull without your veins?
    — Maggie Millner, The Atlantic, 25 Jan. 2026
  • Ancient blood flows through your veins.
    — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Gospel music flows through his veins.
    — Nichole Manna, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Dec. 2025
  • That one has gray-green leaves with purple veins.
    — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Kindness runs through his veins.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 9 May 2026
  • Just put a name to the anger coursing through your veins.
    — Angela Haupt, Time, 10 June 2026
  • Brunson knew his spots on the floor and had ice in his veins.
    — Tom Tapp, Deadline, 13 June 2026
  • My grandpa used to say we were born with grease in our veins.
    — Rashika Jaipuriar, IndyStar, 29 Jan. 2026
  • There’s more, of course, in the vein of those coming athwart of fate.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2023
  • And each of the first three episodes provides at least one banger in that vein.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 9 Jan. 2024
  • That project is said to be in the vein of Nailed It!
    — Peter White, Deadline, 12 Feb. 2026
  • Along with the whites of the eyes, there were tiny red veins on the side of the left eye.
    — Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2026
  • The new ones seem set to continue in that vein.
    — Andrew Cunningham, ArsTechnica, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Much of the show continues in this vein.
    — Daisy Jones, Vogue, 3 Dec. 2025
  • The veins in my arms start to show, black and prominent.
    — Rowan Jacobsen, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Every eight hours, a slow drip of medicine into my veins.
    — Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
  • This means a vein in the rectum has swollen and become painful.
    — Sherri Gordon, Parents, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Pull up through the back of the shrimp, bringing one end of the vein out with you.
    — Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 29 Oct. 2025
  • When my face is getting red and my vein is popping out of my head.
    — Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Instead of red blood, blue liquid streams through their veins.
    — Kate Siber, Outside, 21 Oct. 2025
  • That thick, ugly vein, the shrimp feeling, was gone.
    — Sarah Miller, New Yorker, 20 June 2026
  • Alive and Well There is mold in Hyde’s veins.
    — Shay Castle, Denver Post, 30 Mar. 2026
  • In the same vein, the bag has been a hit in the Vogue offices too.
    — Alexis Bennett, Vogue, 10 Feb. 2023
  • There's one called redbor, which has fringed purple leaves and red veins.
    — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 10 Sep. 2025

vein

2 of 2 verb
  • His hair is a shiny silver white, his hands veined and weathered.
    — Michael Callahan, Vanities, 19 Apr. 2017
  • Arrange 1 leaf on a work surface, vein side up.
    — Ann Taylor Pittman, Southern Living, 30 Nov. 2025
  • Quartzite comes in an array of colors and veining that ranges from subtle to bold.
    — Jeff Reina, Houston Chronicle, 2 Nov. 2019
  • Instead, the crust is dense and focaccia-like, its insides veined with olive oil.
    — Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 3 Oct. 2019
  • The veining process of making her skin look translucent took up to two hours of airbrushing.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 7 Sep. 2024
  • Displays hung on white walls veined with cracking plaster touch on the tribe’s history.
    — Alfredo Sosa, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Marbled white quartz comes in a variety of veining colors, with shades of gray being the most common.
    — Lee Wallender, The Spruce, 30 June 2026
  • Deep vein thrombosis, or DVT, is when one or more blood clots form within the deep veins of your body.
    — Addy Bink, The Hill, 17 July 2025
  • The store's fishmongers can assist with anything from recipe suggestions to shrimp de-veining.
    — Katherine Peralta, charlotteobserver, 11 June 2018
  • The little hamlet is surrounded by national forest land veined with hiking trails.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 2 June 2024
  • Like the canyons that vein so much of San Diego County, coyotes are a reminder of this land’s natural state.
    — Peter Rowe, sandiegouniontribune.com, 29 Apr. 2018
  • The crop of acorns from the live oaks that grew on the narrow cheniers veining the coastal marsh and the water oaks and southern red oaks upland farther inland were gone.
    — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 24 Jan. 2018
  • Meanwhile, more expensive cars — like the Camaro’s sibling, the Corvette — are veined with carbon fiber.
    — David Ingold, The Seattle Times, 21 May 2017
  • Its detailed rendering of small, usually unpaved farm roads that vein the landscape proved invaluable.
    — Matthew Kronsberg, WSJ, 27 July 2018
  • Maddox said the plaster will once again be painted with veining that mimics stone, but in a lighter shade than the dark brown favored in the Victorian era.
    — Washington Post, 6 May 2018
  • Companies are offering marble-look tile in unexpected hues like magenta and green, or with veining in gold or copper.
    — Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2019
  • Summary Spider veins—small, twisted veins on the surface of the skin—do not pose health risks and are primarily a cosmetic concern.
    — Mark Gurarie, Verywell Health, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Another idea is to find color inspiration from other elements in the room, like specs and veining in countertops or an accent paint color.
    — Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 June 2025
  • Computer models predict more than 3 feet of rain in the eastern part of the state, a fertile low-lying plain veined by brackish rivers with a propensity for escaping their banks.
    — Michael Biesecker, Fox News, 12 Sep. 2018
  • Chronic venous insufficiency, common among people in their 70s, is a condition in which veins in the legs have trouble sending blood back to the heart.
    — Joey Garrison, USA Today, 18 July 2025
  • Soft lilac marble and delicate veining anchor this purple sanctuary by Ethan Charles Design.
    — Sophie Aliece Hollis, Martha Stewart, 11 June 2026
  • Available in both black and white, each stocking holder is a chic and modern block of Marquina marble with contrast veining variations, meaning each stocking holder will be unique.
    — L. Daniela Alvarez, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The up-to-date kitchen, all white with stainless-steel appliances and lightly veined white marble (or marble-like) counters, is open over a snack bar to a casual lounge for TV watching.
    — Mark David, Robb Report, 7 Oct. 2023
  • The border region of Lombardy adopted blue-veined cheese over mozzarella, and substituted rice for the ubiquitous Italian pasta.
    — Jim Kempton, Orange County Register, 2 Aug. 2019
  • There’s a chilly noir vein alongside the horror now with a thematic interest in corruption and disenfranchisement that was present but not fully considered in the earlier seasons.
    — Jen Chaney, Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 3 June 2024
  • Tribute mines that vein and takes players to locales that will be familiar to Marvel Cinematic Universe fans as well as comic aficionados.
    — Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Behind the range, the white zigzagging veining on the black granite playfully evokes a shark fin or the tail fin of a Jet Age land cruiser like a 1959 Cadillac.
    — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 30 Dec. 2024
  • The movie is antiquated sitcom, very much in an ‘80s vein, its veneer of schmaltz garnished with a tinkling score by Hans Zimmer that should come with a sugar-content warning.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 10 Dec. 2025
  • The charge of corruption veined every criticism, including the groundless one that Adams was filling the executive mansion with frivolous luxuries purchased at the public’s expense.
    — David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2018
  • The results suggested that as rain soaks into cracks in the ground, CO2 dissolved in the rainwater pairs up with magnesium atoms, forming magnesium carbonate veins, until the small amount of gas in the water quickly runs out.
    — Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 July 2021

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