How to Use white blood cell in a Sentence

white blood cell

noun
  • Your white blood cells are off the charts.
    — Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Eosinophils are a type of white blood cell that fight disease.
    — Eryn Mathewson, CNN, 8 Jan. 2022
  • Blood is made up of red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets and plasma.
    — Elizabeth Weise and Mark Johnson, USA TODAY, 2 Apr. 2020
  • Macrophages are white blood cells that aid the immune system.
    — Janet Loehrke, USA TODAY, 21 June 2024
  • Maybe your physician has checked your white blood cell levels.
    — Popular Science, 6 Oct. 2020
  • Macrophages are a type of white blood cell that aids the immune system.
    — George Petras, USA TODAY, 8 June 2023
  • The white blood cells that help the body fight infections seem to change.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN, 18 Mar. 2025
  • The techs will then put the white blood cells into a machine that will count each cell.
    — oregonlive, 21 Sep. 2019
  • That means less room for healthy white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets to form in the bone marrow.
    — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, Indianapolis Star, 11 Nov. 2019
  • Lymphocytes are white blood cells made in your bone marrow and lymph nodes.
    — Barbara Brody, Health, 26 Feb. 2023
  • Those with symptoms were shown to have lower levels of two types of white blood cells.
    — Melissa Rudy, Fox News, 24 Feb. 2025
  • This type of cancer starts in white blood cells and is most common in late middle age.
    — Sarah Klein, Health.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • During the blood’s sojourn on the rack, white blood cells are filtered out.
    — Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
  • The clot, or thrombus, is made of fibrin, platelets, white blood cells and some red blood cells.
    — Daryl Austin, USA Today, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Aside from the physical fact that my white blood cell count went down, my stress level just went down.
    — John Ortved, Vogue, 27 July 2021
  • Jung has seen the same happen in ferrets with a virus that causes loss of white blood cells called platelets.
    — Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 13 Apr. 2020
  • As a result, the body views a tattoo as a wound and sends out macrophages, or white blood cells, to heal the area.
    — Devika Rao, The Week, 10 May 2023
  • The choreography of red and white blood cells dancing around the slide left me in awe.
    — Cory Zapatka, The Verge, 15 May 2018
  • But besides low white blood cell counts and some serious hunger pangs, they were all said to be in good health.
    — J. Weston Phippen, Outside Online, 10 July 2018
  • The thymus makes white blood cells that protect the body against infections.
    — Luke Broadwater, baltimoresun.com, 11 Nov. 2019
  • Mast cells are a type of white blood cell found throughout the body, which play a key role in our immune defences.
    — Sarah Graham, refinery29.com, 11 Jan. 2024
  • And the thymus gland, the producer of white blood cells, shrinks and weakens over time.
    — Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Flow Space, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Then there are the reapers, creatures with tentacles that took a cue from the macrophage (a type of white blood cell).
    — Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The body creates too many abnormal white blood cells, which disrupts the body's healthy blood cells.
    — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2023
  • Telomere length in white blood cells was measured at the start of the study, at the two-year mark and after four years.
    — Reem Amro, FOXNews.com, 26 May 2025
  • The news came after her doctor noticed an imbalance in her white blood cell count.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Helping in the formation of red and white blood cells and platelets in the bone marrow at the ends of the bones.
    — Melissa Willets, Parents, 15 Jan. 2026
  • The swelling results from extra white blood cells coming to the site to fight infection.
    — Maggie O'Neill, Health, 30 June 2023
  • All of the 26 had a fever, with around half showing fatigue, decreased white blood cell count and cough.
    — Amy Cheng, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2022
  • While in the hospital for the birth of her second child, her doctor noticed her white blood cell count was high.
    — Marc Levy, Fortune, 30 Dec. 2025

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