VEIN in a Sentence
Learn VEIN from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
129 example sentences for VEIN, such as:
1. A blue vein throbbed in his forehead.
2. Not in your usual masterful vein at all.
3. The surgeon performed a section on the vein.
4. The director discovered a rich vein of sentimentality.
5. The nurse was having trouble finding a vein in his arm.
2. Not in your usual masterful vein at all.
3. The surgeon performed a section on the vein.
4. The director discovered a rich vein of sentimentality.
5. The nurse was having trouble finding a vein in his arm.
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Meanings and Examples of VEIN
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vein
n. one of the horny ribs that stiffen and support the wing of an insect
v. make a veinlike pattern
Classic Sentence: (106 in 8 pages)
1 She touched her bony forehead upon which a blue vein wriggled like a blue worm.
2 Though even that, you know, is far from explaining all, he added, and with the words fell into a vein of musing.
3 In its venerable one coat lay a certain vein of satire on human vanity in clothes.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: 1 A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: 1 A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression
4 "There was Kingsbere church likewise," Fairway recommenced, as one opening a new vein of the same mine of interest.
5 I ought to be of the same vein, to make you happy, I suppose.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: 4 An Hour of Bliss and Many Hours of Sadness
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: 4 An Hour of Bliss and Many Hours of Sadness
6 Trouble has taught you a deeper vein of talk than mine.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: 2 A Lurid Light Breaks in upon a Darkened Understanding
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: 2 A Lurid Light Breaks in upon a Darkened Understanding
7 There was more in the same vein but Scarlett did not finish it.
8 Had Charles with his fumbling awkwardness and his embarrassed intimacies tapped any of the deep vein of passionate feeling within her, her dreams of Ashley would not be ending with a kiss.
9 Not in your usual masterful vein at all.
10 There was in Lily a vein of sentiment, perhaps transmitted from this source, which gave an idealizing touch to her most prosaic purposes.
11 Sam's vein of piety was always uncommonly fervent in his mistress' presence; and he made great capital of scriptural figures and images.
12 Monte Cristo had pronounced the name of Fernand with such an expression of hatred that Mercedes felt a thrill of horror run through every vein.
13 Every pulse beat with feverish excitement, every nerve was strained, every vein swollen, and every part of his body seemed to suffer distinctly from the rest, thus multiplying his agony a thousand-fold.
14 Morrel, overpowered, turned around in the arm-chair; a delicious torpor permeated every vein.
15 Just over the external jugular vein there were two punctures, not large, but not wholesome-looking.
Example Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1 He could have died after developing deep vein thrombosis during a flight to Sydney.
2 The nurse was having trouble finding a vein in his arm.
3 You will never enjoy the world aright, till he sea itself floweth in your vein, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars.
4 A blue vein throbbed in his forehead.
5 The director discovered a rich vein of sentimentality.
6 The surgeon performed a section on the vein.
7 The opening scene is very violent, and the rest of the film continues in similar vein.
8 Surgical waiting lists were reduced by the simple expedient of striking off all patients awaiting varicose vein operations.
9 I now clapped my hands in sudden joy -- my pulse bounded, my vein thrilled.
10 When they assay the ore, they find that they have discovered a very rich vein.
11 The doctors need to preserve and re-route those veins or both twins risk suffering a stroke.
12 The doctor shows me how blood to circulate in my veins on pictures.
13 I can tell when he is under stress by the way the veins distend on his forehead.
14 The supply of this ore is apparently inexhaustible, but no veins have as yet been found.
15 Some physiologists infuse sugar solutions into the veins of animals.