donate/give blood

idiom

: to have blood taken out of one's body so that it can be put into the body of a person who needs it

She donates/gives blood twice a year.

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Clockwise from upper left: Nomads from the Peul tribe give blood samples to be tested for sleeping sickness. —

Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 30 Dec. 2024 And young donors are the key because fewer and fewer under the age of 25 have been volunteering to give blood. —

Scott Thompson, Fox News, 26 Sep. 2024 Would paying donors boost donations in the UK? Only around 7% of people in the UK donate blood on a regular basis, according to a YouGov poll from 2022, with most of these aged 45 or older. —

The Week Uk, theweek, 25 Nov. 2024 Ushering in donors Stanford Blood Center offering a musical incentive to those who give blood at their Bay Area donation sites, including the South Bay Donor Center in Campbell. —

Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 8 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for donate/give blood

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