How to Use marrow in a Sentence

marrow

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  • As Leahy said, his aide was the dog with the marrow bone.
    — George Black, The New Republic, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Torts’s turn to wring the marrow out of a team of misfit toys.
    — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2022
  • She’s been a survivor who knows the marrow and fullness of the word.
    — Rita Omokha, ELLE, 14 July 2023
  • Outside, a cold damp wind blew, piercing through our flesh all the way to the marrow.
    — Artem Chapeye, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Plan during camp how to suck the marrow out of this season and still enjoy the rest of your life.
    — Mike Bass, The Enquirer, 30 July 2021
  • Grilling it with the bone in will yield a juicier steak that gets rich, buttery flavor from the marrow.
    — Tina Martinez, Good Housekeeping, 15 May 2023
  • Do not discard the bones, as the marrow will continue to melt into the broth.
    — New York Times, 1 Nov. 2021
  • An icy wind, blowing fiercely from the West, chilled the audience to the marrow.
    — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The shop also sells beef tallow, duck eggs, marrow bones and raw dog food.
    — Dallas News, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The idea was to wipe out the bone marrow from which immune cells arise, then replace it with new marrow from a donor.
    — Amber Dance, Discover Magazine, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The idea was to wipe out the bone marrow from which immune cells arise, then replace it with new marrow from a donor.
    — Amber Dance, Discover Magazine, 13 Apr. 2023
  • For broth with the most body and richness, include beef leg bones (called marrow bones, for the tube of marrow in the center) and beef knuckles.
    — Kathleen Purvis, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Stem cells must be released from the marrow into the blood so they can be collected.
    — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2023
  • While any bones will work, the bones with meat, marrow, and connective tissue still clinging to them are a great choice.
    — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Blood and marrow transplants have been around as leukemia treatments for almost 70 years.
    — Max G. Levy, Wired, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Imagine if its teeth were so long as to be absurd, but rendered with precise detail down to the marrow.
    — Julie Muncy, Wired, 24 Nov. 2020
  • Matching to be a blood stem cell or marrow donor is more complicated than blood type.
    — Tracey Harrington McCoy, Peoplemag, 31 Oct. 2022
  • At that point, doctors must clear the patient’s marrow with intensive chemotherapy to make way for the new cells.
    — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2023
  • More than 11 million people — all willing to donate marrow or blood cells — are in the registry.
    — oregonlive, 17 Apr. 2021
  • Now, days later, she was drawn to the town square and the 21 white crosses erected there, one for each of the 19 children and two teachers whose deaths left gaping holes in the marrow of a small town.
    — Claire Galofaro, Anchorage Daily News, 31 May 2022
  • Many of the skull and long bones were fractured while the bones were still fresh, perhaps to allow the surviving people of the group to extract the nutritious marrow.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 22 Sep. 2023
  • In their marrow is a music that’s a seamless amalgam of country, bluegrass, jazz and early rock-and-roll.
    — Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2020
  • There are also venison and pig trotter pies, each lanced with an enormous marrow bone.
    — Caitie Kelly Wei Tchou Julia Halperin Tom Delavan Lane Nieset Gage Daughdrill, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2023
  • So forget cotton, which retains moisture like a sponge and can chill your winter-fishing bones to the marrow.
    — John Perritano, Popular Mechanics, 22 Dec. 2020
  • One-year-old Amelia Bellmore was the child in line to receive Shawen's marrow, and naturally, her parents were thrilled!
    — Akira Kumamoto, USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Patients also need to be hospitalized for weeks while the edited cells make their way to the bone marrow and start making new blood cells.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Taft, unable to find a vein to start an intravenous line, drilled a needle into the marrow of the man’s leg bone, hoping to stabilize him.
    — Lizzie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Sep. 2020
  • Puzey is strengthening his mind and body in preparation for a bone-marrow transplant.
    — The Editors, Outside Online, 6 Dec. 2021
  • But this portrait is too clean, too unquestioning, too accepting, to get to the marrow.
    — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2021
  • The singer has also spent time working with DKMS, the world's largest non-profit marrow donor center — to help raise awareness for the need for people to come forward to become donors.
    — Stephanie Sengwe, Peoplemag, 8 Feb. 2023

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