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Example sentences for "veins"

Lexicographically close words:
veined; veines; veining; veinings; veinlets; veinte; veiny; vel; velar; velarium
  1. Lord Vivianne listened without a comment, the veins in his forehead swelled, his face flushed a hot crimson flush, his hands trembled.

  2. Great drops stood on his brow, the veins in his hands swelled like huge cords, his lips grew white as the lips of the dead.

  3. Thus he pretends to seek the fever in the veins of the sufferer.

  4. Little veins crisscrossed his gaunt cheeks like streams on a map.

  5. The little crisscross veins of his gaunt cheeks were filled with blood, and the grey brushes over his ears glistened with dew drops.

  6. It stiffened her limbs, bound her arms to her body, crippled her knees, beat against the walls of the veins in her neck and created a black void in her brain.

  7. Lilly felt the blood begin to course through her veins again, and with it life and thought.

  8. Broussard called punctually at the Colonel's quarters for Anita, on the red December afternoons, when the air was like champagne and Broussard felt as if his veins ran wine instead of blood.

  9. The music was throbbing still in her veins and the thought of playing to Broussard's singing had in it an intoxication for her innocent heart.

  10. Then one other chief, of the Turtle clan, and in whose veins coursed the blood of the historic Brant, now stepped to the edge of the scarlet blanket.

  11. When I first went up there, all their lamps and rectangular pots were made of soapstone, two or three veins of which are found in that country.

  12. The blood tingled in his veins at the call.

  13. Renshaw, lying there in the wild rocky defile, felt the poison stealing insidiously through his veins in a kind of slow drowsy stupor.

  14. She chafed the flaccid wrists, the temples, the veins about his ears, and then, leaning over, blew on the heavy lids.

  15. But the young blood in his veins ran alternate currents of fire and ice.

  16. Edna's heart may resemble the rich veins of gold, which in some mines run not near the surface but deep in the masses of quartz.

  17. My veins ran fire as I listened to the tingling of her silvery voice with the rich melody of his, and I turned and left the garden, and walked back toward the town.

  18. I have no respect for Estelle, but I have a shadowy traditional reverence for the blood in her veins which forbids my flirting with her as she deserves.

  19. But his veins stood out like blue cords on his temples, and his eyes dilated with the nearness of death.

  20. His veins swelled with the conflict of his emotions.

  21. Aeons before, when the young blood ran swiftly in his veins and life was all before him, Mr Birdsey had played football.

  22. In a little time a certain pride went beating through the veins of the doctor, the air blew more deeply into his lungs, there was a different tang to the wind and a different feel to the sun--a peculiar richness of yellow warmth.

  23. With something of his own crude strength and barbaric taste, it stood there, the grim reminder of her white father to the girl in whose veins his own blood mingled with that of the savage.

  24. This governor took from his box in the house of medicines a sharp small knife, and with it he cut the veins of a Marquesan who had done some small wrong against the law and lay in jail.

  25. Long spurts of blood covered the floor for some distance around and from the veins in his arm, which had also been severed, a long stream of blood led to a hollow in the cement floor where it had collected.

  26. About to go around the drift and investigate, a weird, low call from behind him brought him to an abrupt halt, the blood congealing in his veins at the strangeness of the sound.

  27. Dick was about to echo his chum’s triumphant cry, when an ominous growl from behind them froze the very blood in their veins with terror.

  28. Only the most practised of tire-women could have marked how the blue veins about her temples traced themselves more distinctly, how the colour turned a shade fainter in her cheek.

  29. Their great patriarch and leader came out of this very land; and there is Assyrian blood, though I think shame to confess it, in the veins of that captive people subject now to our hereditary enemies in the South.

  30. It was the peculiar distinction of the blood of Arden that it flowed in the veins of Shakespeare.

  31. An uncle, of the ruder strain, declared, in view of prospective Revolutionary tribunals, that his veins were "uncontaminated with one drop of gentility.

  32. Engelhardt saw the veins swelling in the section of wrist between the white sleeve and the dogskin glove.

  33. His veins were frozen; he was past a tremor.

  34. Lead-veins have been worked in various parts of the county from time to time.

  35. Lead veins occur at Strontian which have yielded a number of minerals, including sphalerite, fluorite, strontianite, harmotone, brewsterite and pilolite.

  36. While he paused a heavy noise arose that quickened his heart-beats and sent the blood through his veins in wild excitement.

  37. In that moment something seemed to burst within him and flood his veins with fire.

  38. O Zaida, how I fear for thee, my veins with anger glow; O Zaida, turn once more to me, and let the stranger go.

  39. And my trusting heart will answer while it fills my veins with fire That to hear of, is to see thee; and to see, is to desire!

  40. Boyish they are and always will be while there are boys to hear them; they ring in the veins after thirty years, and make old blood pelt like young.

  41. Jan beheld swelling veins in a stupor of angry satisfaction, and without a thought of his own position until a rap on the back went through him like a stab.

  42. Then, again, although the blood in my veins may lack in blueness, it is pure, which is a matter of some importance.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "veins" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.